What is the law in Canada relative to unjust enrichment?

New Brunswick, Canada


The following excerpt is from Elliott v. Trane Canada Inc., 2008 NBQB 79 (CanLII):

The law in Canada relative to unjust enrichment was aptly summarized by Justice McLachlin, as she then was, in Peter v. Beblow, 1993 CanLII 126 (SCC), [1993] 1 S.C.R. 980 at para. 3 where she identified three elements necessary to establish a claim for unjust enrichment – an enrichment, a corresponding deprivation and the absence of any juristic reason for the enrichment.

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