What are the allegations of absence of clean hands?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Picavet v. Clute, 2011 ONSC 3101 (CanLII):
The first allegation of absence of clean hands relates to a suggestion that, during the time when the plaintiff maintains he was diligently advancing a proposal to re-zone a large portion of this parcel of land, he was in receipt of WSIB benefits and not reporting this “work”. I agree with the plaintiff that this scenario, even if proved, falls far short of the egregious circumstances that would entitle the defendants to rely on such a shield: see Taylor v. Guindon, [2005] O.J. No. 3110 (S.C.J.).
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