What constitutes fraud and/or false representation of fact?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hudak v. Sloan, 2011 ABPC 213 (CanLII):
Fraud is a false representation of fact, made with a knowledge of its falsehood or recklessly without belief in its truth, with the intention that it should be acted upon by the complaining party, and that the party is actually induced to act upon and suffered damages as a consequence: Parna v. G & S Properties Ltd. 1970 CanLII 25 (SCC), [1971] SCR 306.
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