What are the grounds for refusing to enforce a solicitor's undertaking?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bank of British Columbia v. M., 1979 CanLII 580 (BC SC):
It is open to the solicitor to urge that there are grounds upon which the court should refuse to exercise its jurisdiction to enforce a solicitor's undertaking: see United Mining v. Becher, per Hamilton J. at p. 306.
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