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It is clear that the CRA accepts that there exists a causal connection between Mr. ...

While they may not be appropriate in all cases, where they achieve the benefits mentioned above, lump sum awards also further the objective of securing the “just, most expeditious and least expensive determination” of proceedings (Allergan at paras 22-23 and Nova Chemicals at para 11, both citing Rule 3 of the Rules; see also Venngo Inc v Concierge Connection Inc, 2017 FCA 96 [Venngo] at paras 85-86, leave to appeal ref’d [2017] SCCA No 302; Consorzio at para 12). [26] The amount chosen as an appropriate contribution towards the successful party’s costs is not an exact science warranting a granular analysis. ...

In addition to these requirements in the rule, the jurisprudence requires the offer to be clear and unequivocal, to contain an element of compromise or “incentive to accept,” and to bring the litigation to an end: Venngo Inc v Concierge Connection Inc (Perkopolis), 2017 FCA 96 at para 87, citing H‑D USA, LLC v Berrada, 2015 FC 189 [Berrada] at para 32 and Syntex Pharmaceuticals International Ltd v Apotex Inc, 2001 FCA 137 at para 10. [28] Where a plaintiff makes such an offer, and obtains a judgment as or more favourable than its terms, it is entitled to party-and-party costs to the date of the offer, and to costs calculated at double that rate, but not double disbursements, from that date to the date of judgment, unless the Court orders otherwise: Federal Courts Rules, Rule 420(1). ...

It must have been a very small percentage of the total cost of making the connections to all of the 77 lots. ... In the present case we are concerned with the amount paid for water and sewer connections. The person (Red River Construction (1972) Limited) who made the connections and was paid for so doing, IS a private construction company. ...

The statement has no probative value because it does not prove this connection, simply corroborating the tragic incidents. ... When he speculates, assumes and presumes, that in no way establishes a connection between the deaths and attacks to seek revenge or to intimidate. ... What is sorely lacking is a plausible connection between the tragic deaths and the alleged fear, when even the police officer uncle does not claim one. ...

In this connection what is the effect of the leases previously referred to? ... Accordingly, I consider that the phrase “use in connection with a business carried on by him” does not limit the planned structure to one which would be a facility in connection with the taxpayer’s business. ... Services of solicitors for documentation in connection with the above matters. 7. ...

Whether there need be any “connection” between farming and the other source of income. ... As I construe his Lordship’s statement in its context, he did not consider “connection” a requirement. ... As I construe it, there is nothing in subsection 13(1) which says there must be any such connection. ...

Counsel for this taxpayer then posited that because the jointly filed transcript (p 3) records that the taxpayer in his employment is “responsible for... the purchasing agent who purchases materials” he is by necessary implication, if not directly, contemplated by the expression “... employed in connection with the selling of property or negotiating of contracts for his employer’. ... He concentrated on the expression “... received by an employee from his employer in respect of a period when he was employed in connection with... ... The subparagraph might possibly bear such an interpretation if it provided, “... in respect of a taxation year during which he was employed for some period in connection with...”. ...

It sufficiently establishes that, to that extent, he was employed in connection with negotiating of contracts for the County of Wellington. ... He concentrated on the expression,“... received by an employee from his employer in respect of a period when he was employed in connection with...” in subparagraph 6(1)(b)(v) of the Act. ... The subparagraph might possibly bear such an interpretation if it provided, “... in respect of a taxation year during which he was employed for some period in connection with.. ...

The connection between the forum and the plaintiff’s claim 2. A connection between the forum and the defendant 3. ...   [43] Regardless, jurisprudence on the real and substantial connection test states that a connection between the defendant and the forum is an important factor, but not a necessary factor. ... A substantial connection with the subject matter of the action will satisfy the real and substantial connection test even in the absence of such a connection with the defendant to the action. ...