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Judicial Comity Part 2: Anti-Suit Injunctions and Public Policy

October 1, 2026

The Jurisdictional Adjudication of Cross-Border Litigation: Anti-Suit Injunctions, Forum Shopping, and the Limits of Judicial Comity (Part 2 of 3)

Opening Question

When a commercial litigant weaponizes a foreign tribunal to evade domestic jurisdiction and exploit favorable foreign laws, does the doctrine of judicial comity mandate absolute deference to the foreign proceeding, or do superior courts deploy anti-suit injunctions to halt oppressive forum shopping, rendering the extraterritorial action an absolute procedural nullity?

Direct Answer Paragraph

The principle of judicial deference affords absolutely no sanctuary to abusive transnational forum shopping. Relying upon Herbert Broom’s equitable maxim aequitas agit in personam (equity acts upon the person), superior courts dictate that oppressive foreign proceedings violate fundamental justice, rendering comity subordinate and empowering anti-suit injunctions to halt jurisdictional evasion.

Overview

Part 1 of this treatise established the foundational bedrock of judicial comity under the Morguard and Beals framework: Canadian courts will generally enforce foreign judgments where the foreign court lawfully assumed jurisdiction. However, judicial comity is a doctrine of mutual respect, not absolute subservience. Comity breaks down when a litigant engages in aggressive forum shopping—maliciously initiating a lawsuit in a foreign country specifically to bypass Canadian laws, harass a domestic defendant, or exploit a foreign tribunal possessing only a tenuous connection to the dispute.

When a Canadian defendant is dragged into a foreign court unjustly, waiting for the foreign court to issue a judgment and then fighting enforcement in Canada is often economically catastrophic. To neutralize this threat immediately, Canadian superior courts wield one of the most aggressive and extraordinary equitable remedies in civil procedure: The Anti-Suit Injunction.

An anti-suit injunction is a direct, coercive order issued by a Canadian superior court commanding a party (over whom the Canadian court has personal jurisdiction) to immediately halt, withdraw, or cease prosecuting a lawsuit in a foreign country.

Issuing an anti-suit injunction creates severe diplomatic and legal friction. By ordering a litigant to abandon a foreign lawsuit, the Canadian court is indirectly telling the foreign sovereign judge that their proceedings are illegitimate. To prevent the collapse of international comity, the Supreme Court of Canada established a stringent, multi-stage threshold in the landmark decision Amchem Products Inc. v. British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Board), [1993] 1 S.C.R. 897.

Under the Amchem test, a Canadian court will only issue an anti-suit injunction if:

The Foreign Court Assumed Jurisdiction Unreasonably: The Canadian court must determine whether the foreign court blatantly violated international rules of forum non conveniens by taking a case that clearly belongs elsewhere.
Canada is the “Natural Forum”: The applicant must prove that a Canadian court is unquestionably the most appropriate, natural, and logical forum to hear the dispute (based on where the witnesses, evidence, and primary parties are located).
The Foreign Lawsuit is Oppressive or Vexatious: The applicant must demonstrate that allowing the foreign lawsuit to continue would cause severe injustice—such as depriving the Canadian defendant of fundamental legal defenses, subjecting them to extortionate foreign procedures, or forcing them into multiple, contradictory trials.

If the Amchem threshold is satisfied, the superior court asserts its equitable dominance. The court issues a mandatory injunction commanding the plaintiff to discontinue the foreign action. If the plaintiff disobeys the order and continues litigating abroad, they are held in civil and criminal contempt of the Canadian court. The extraterritorial proceeding is stripped of all domestic legitimacy, ensuring that aggressive transnational legal maneuvers are met with absolute jurisdictional nullification.

Legal Domain/Area Identification

Private International Law (Conflict of Laws, Forum Shopping, and Forum Non Conveniens), Equity and Remedies (Interlocutory and Anti-Suit Injunctions, Aequitas Agit in Personam), Civil Procedure (Jurisdictional Challenges), and the Doctrine of Nullity.

The Anti-Suit Injunction & Comity Exception Matrix

Superior courts evaluate applications for anti-suit injunctions through an objective, highly restrictive equitable matrix:

                  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                  │       TRANSNATIONAL ANTI-SUIT INJUNCTION INQUIRY        │
                  │             (THE AMCHEM PRODUCTS AUDIT)                 │
                  └────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                               │
                                               ▼
                  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                  │    STEP 1: THE FOREIGN FORUM NON CONVENIENS AUDIT       │
                  │   • Did the foreign court reasonably assume jurisdiction?│
                  │   • Has the applicant tried to halt the foreign action  │
                  │     in the foreign court first?                         │
                  └────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                               │
           ┌───────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┐
           ▼                                                                       ▼
 [ FOREIGN COURT ACTED REASONABLY ]                                      [ FOREIGN COURT OVERREACHED / IGNORED ]
 • Foreign forum has legitimate ties to dispute                          • Extraterritorial overreach by foreign judge
 • Proper application of conflict of laws                                • Foreign court refused to decline jurisdiction
 • Comity demands respect for the foreign process                        • The proceeding clearly belongs in Canada
           │                                                                       │
           ▼                                                                       ▼
  [ INJUNCTION DENIED IN LIMINE ]                                        ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
  (Canadian court defers to foreign tribunal)                            │   STEP 2: THE "NATURAL FORUM" TEST      │
                                                                         │   Is the Canadian court overwhelmingly  │
                                                                         │   the most appropriate forum for trial? │
                                                                         └────────────────────┬────────────────────┘
                                                                                              │
                                   ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────┐
                                   ▼                                                                     ▼
                       [ CANADA IS ONLY MARGINALLY BETTER ]                                  [ CANADA IS THE TRUE NATURAL FORUM ]
                       • Witnesses split between countries                                   • Contract signed in Canada under CDN law
                       • No severe injustice in foreign trial                                • All parties and evidence in Canada
                       • Injunction refused to maintain Comity                               • The foreign suit is a bad-faith anomaly
                                                                                                         │
                                                                                                         ▼
                                                                                            ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
                                                                                            │   STEP 3: THE OPPRESSION / VEXATION TEST│
                                                                                            │ Does the foreign suit cause severe      │
                                                                                            │ injustice to the Canadian defendant?    │
                                                                                            └────────────────────┬────────────────────┘
                                                                                                                 │
                                                                                                                 ▼
                                                                                                     ┌─────────────────────────┐
                                                                                                     │    SUPERIOR COURT DECREE│
                                                                                                     │ • Injunction GRANTED    │
                                                                                                     │ • Party ordered to stop │
                                                                                                     │   foreign litigation    │
                                                                                                     │ • Disobedience = Contemp│
                                                                                                     └─────────────────────────┘

The Complete 3-Part Judicial Comity Series Index

This comprehensive three-part legal treatise examines the jurisdictional, equitable, and transnational mechanisms governing judicial comity and cross-border litigation across Canadian superior courts:

Part 1 of 3: Judicial Comity Part 1: Foundations and Foreign Judgments — Deconstructing the doctrine of comity under Morguard and Beals, the “real and substantial connection” test, enforcing foreign civil decrees, and rendering exorbitant extraterritorial judgments absolute jurisdictional nullities.
Part 2 of 3 (Current): Judicial Comity Part 2: Anti-Suit Injunctions and Public Policy — Analyzing the limits of deference, weaponized forum shopping, the Amchem test for halting oppressive foreign litigation, the penal and revenue rule (Pro Swing), and protecting the domestic administration of justice.
Part 3 of 3: Judicial Comity Part 3: Cross-Border Insolvency and Universalism — Examining the apex of judicial cooperation in transnational restructuring, the CCAA Part IV mechanisms, the UNCITRAL Model Law, “modified universalism” in complex corporate bankruptcies (Nortel Networks), and court-to-court communication protocols.

Key Requirements / Elements to Secure an Anti-Suit Injunction

To successfully overcome the presumption of judicial comity and compel a superior court to issue an anti-suit injunction against a foreign proceeding, moving counsel must establish the following rigorous criteria:

The Exhaustion of Foreign Remedies (Comity Prerequisite): Counsel must demonstrate that, where possible, they first applied to the foreign court to decline jurisdiction (bringing a forum non conveniens motion abroad), and that the foreign court unreasonably refused, fulfilling the requirement of comity before asking a Canadian judge to intervene.
The Proof of the Natural Forum: The applicant must prove that Canada is the clearly more appropriate forum to adjudicate the dispute, utilizing connecting factors such as the location of the tort, the residence of the parties, the governing law of the contract, and the location of witnesses.
The Demonstration of Oppression or Vexation: Counsel must prove that defending the action in the foreign jurisdiction constitutes a severe injustice. This is typically established by proving that the foreign suit deprives the defendant of a legitimate juridical advantage (such as a Canadian statutory limitation period or liability cap) or forces them into a forum notorious for lacking due process.
The Application of Aequitas Agit In Personam: Moving counsel must establish that the Canadian court has personal jurisdiction over the plaintiff prosecuting the foreign action. The injunction does not physically bind the foreign judge; it acts in personam, threatening the plaintiff with domestic civil contempt, asset seizure, and imprisonment if they continue the foreign lawsuit.
The Defense of the Domestic Forum (Anti-Anti-Suit Injunctions): In extreme commercial hostility, where a foreign court issues an anti-suit injunction trying to stop a Canadian proceeding, counsel must be prepared to seek an “anti-anti-suit injunction” from the Canadian court to protect the exclusive jurisdiction of the domestic tribunal.

Examples / Application

A. The Oppressive Intellectual Property Forum Shopping

A small technology startup based entirely in Waterloo, Ontario, develops a proprietary software algorithm. A massive multinational tech conglomerate based in Texas claims the software infringes a generic U.S. patent. Instead of suing in Canada or a neutral forum, the Texas conglomerate files a sprawling patent infringement and trade-secret lawsuit in a specific remote U.S. district court famous for overwhelmingly favoring patent trolls and routinely awarding crippling, multi-hundred-million-dollar punitive damages without strict evidentiary thresholds.

The startup has no office, employees, or servers in Texas. Defending the U.S. lawsuit will cost $4 million in initial discovery fees alone, immediately bankrupting the Canadian company.

Counsel for the Waterloo startup brings an urgent motion in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for an Anti-Suit Injunction.

Applying Amchem, the Ontario judge grants the injunction. The court determines that Ontario is the natural forum: all code was written in Ontario, the developers reside in Waterloo, and the contract at issue was signed under Ontario law. The Texas lawsuit is pure, bad-faith forum shopping designed as an instrument of commercial attrition. The foreign suit is oppressive and vexatious. The Ontario court issues an injunction commanding the conglomerate (which has branch offices in Toronto, granting the court personal jurisdiction) to immediately withdraw the Texas lawsuit. The abusive foreign action is neutralized.

B. The Parallel Class Action Duplication

A major aviation accident occurs in Europe involving a plane manufactured by a Canadian aerospace company. The victims’ families include citizens of Canada, France, and the United States. A consortium of aggressive American contingency-fee lawyers files a massive class action in a U.S. state court, seeking American-style uncapped punitive damages against the Canadian manufacturer, despite the U.S. having minimal connection to the crash.

Concurrently, a properly constituted class action is advancing in the Superior Court of Quebec, where the aircraft was designed and manufactured, and where the primary engineering evidence resides.

The Canadian manufacturer applies for an anti-suit injunction to halt the U.S. class action.

The Canadian court grants the injunction. The judge rules that defending identical, parallel multi-billion-dollar class actions in different countries regarding the exact same incident risks disastrously inconsistent verdicts and wastes vast judicial resources. Quebec is clearly the natural forum. Allowing the U.S. plaintiffs to proceed simply to chase higher jury payouts is vexatious and undermines the administration of justice. The U.S. plaintiffs are enjoined from advancing the foreign suit and ordered to join the Quebec proceeding.

C. The Defeated Anti-Suit Injunction (Comity Maintained)

Two massive mining conglomerates—one based in Toronto and one based in London, UK—engage in a bitter contractual dispute over a mining concession in Africa. The London company sues the Toronto company in the High Court of Justice in London. The contract between the parties explicitly contained a choice-of-law clause selecting English law and submitting to the jurisdiction of the English courts.

Unwilling to litigate in London, the Toronto company applies to the Ontario Superior Court for an anti-suit injunction to stop the English lawsuit, claiming it would be “more convenient” to litigate in Canada where its executives live.

The Ontario Superior Court forcefully dismisses the application. The judge applies the doctrine of comity and the Amchem test, noting that the English High Court is a highly sophisticated, fair tribunal. Furthermore, the parties freely contracted to litigate in London. Commercial inconvenience does not equal “oppression” or “vexation.” The Canadian court refuses to interfere with the foreign proceeding, preserving international judicial comity and upholding the contract.

Regulatory Notes / Case Law

Amchem Products Incorporated v. British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Board), [1993] 1 S.C.R. 897: The paramount Supreme Court of Canada authority defining the strict test for granting anti-suit injunctions, balancing the need to stop oppressive foreign litigation against the supreme requirement to maintain international judicial comity.
Society of Lloyd’s v. Saunders, 2001 SCC 83: Foundational Supreme Court precedent analyzing forum selection clauses and the enforcement of foreign judgments, confirming that Canadian courts will heavily weigh the parties’ prior agreement to litigate in a specific jurisdiction.
Douez v. Facebook, Inc., 2017 SCC 33: A landmark Supreme Court decision modifying the enforcement of foreign forum selection clauses in consumer contracts, demonstrating how public policy and the imbalance of bargaining power can render foreign jurisdictional ousters unenforceable in Canadian courts.
Pro Swing Inc. v. Elta Golf Inc., 2006 SCC 52: Establishing the boundaries of enforcing foreign non-monetary judgments (such as injunctions) in Canada, confirming that Canadian courts will cautiously enforce equitable orders provided they do not violate domestic public policy or act as foreign penal statutes.
Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc., 2017 SCC 34: The supreme authority on the extraterritorial reach of Canadian equitable injunctions, establishing that Canadian superior courts possess the power to issue worldwide, global injunctions (in this case, ordering Google to de-index websites globally) to prevent irreparable harm.
Bhasin v. Hrynew, 2014 SCC 71: The supreme authority on good faith and honest performance, establishing that commercial actors cannot deploy abusive foreign litigation strategies or forum shopping in bad faith to evade domestic legal accountability.

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Internal Links (Referrals to Other Blogs, Pages, Posts)

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Judicial Comity Part 1: Foundations and Foreign Judgments (Part 1 of 3)
Judicial Comity Part 3: Cross-Border Insolvency and Universalism (Part 3 of 3)
Non-Governing Mandates and Jurisdiction Part 3: Extraterritorial Assertions and Foreign Comity (Part 3 of 3)
Worldwide Mareva Injunctions (WMOs) and Extraterritorial Asset Recovery: Cross-Border Tracing, Cryptocurrency, and Ancillary Orders (Part 2 of 3)
Coram Non Judice: The Absolute Jurisdictional Nullity of State Overreach

External Authoritative Links

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Supreme Court of Canada – Judgments Repository (Amchem, Equustek, Pro Swing)
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) – Anti-Suit Injunction Decisions
Ontario Superior Court of Justice – Commercial List Practice Directions
Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) – Choice of Court Convention

FAQ Section

What is an Anti-Suit Injunction? An anti-suit injunction is an emergency, coercive order issued by a domestic judge commanding a person or corporation to immediately stop prosecuting a lawsuit in a foreign country. It is used when an opponent maliciously sues you in a foreign court (forum shopping) simply to harass you, bankrupt you with legal fees, or exploit foreign laws that have no legitimate connection to the dispute.

How can a Canadian judge stop a lawsuit happening in Texas or London? The Canadian judge does not actually issue orders to the foreign judge—that would violate international comity. Instead, under the rule aequitas agit in personam (equity acts upon the person), the Canadian judge issues a personal, mandatory order against the plaintiff who filed the foreign lawsuit. If the plaintiff disobeys the order and continues the foreign lawsuit, they are in contempt of the Canadian court. The Canadian judge can freeze their domestic assets, strike their local pleadings, or order their arrest.

What is the “Amchem test”? The Amchem test is the strict set of rules created by the Supreme Court of Canada that a judge must follow before issuing an anti-suit injunction. You must prove three things: (1) you tried to get the foreign court to dismiss the case first and failed; (2) Canada is clearly the “natural” and most appropriate place for the trial; and (3) allowing the foreign lawsuit to continue would be oppressive, vexatious, and cause severe injustice.

What is “Forum Shopping”? Forum shopping is a tactical litigation maneuver where a plaintiff deliberately searches the globe to file their lawsuit in the specific country or state that has the most favorable laws, the highest jury payouts, or the weakest defense rules, even if that location has almost nothing to do with the actual dispute. Courts strongly discourage forum shopping as an abuse of the justice system.

What happens if two countries issue anti-suit injunctions against each other? This rare and explosive scenario is known as an “Anti-Anti-Suit Injunction.” If a foreign court orders a Canadian company to drop a Canadian lawsuit, the Canadian company can ask the Canadian judge to issue an order commanding the opponent to drop their foreign injunction. These situations create severe diplomatic and legal standoffs, requiring highly sophisticated conflict-of-laws negotiations to resolve without paralyzing the corporations involved.

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Mr. Kevin A. McLean (B.A., J.D., CIM) (he/him) established Law Cap Inc. (“LawCap”) as a global platform for legal strategy, constitutional advocacy, and digital forensics. Operating within Ontario, Mr. McLean utilizes his background as a former barrister and solicitor in British Columbia, alongside credentials as a Chartered Investment Manager with the world famous and accredited Canadian Securities Institute located in Toronto, Ontario (Wellington West Avenue) (having passed in the span of eight months (eight multi-hour exams and ten if including the “mutual funds course” (see: infra): (i) the Canadian Securities Course: (ii) Wealth Management Essentials (with tax compendium modules); (iii) Investment Management Techniques; and (iv) Portfolio Management Techniques (along with although not required for the designation, the (v) the mutual funds course), to apply a broad and deep based analytical approach to Charter rights litigation and administrative accountability.

His background (the grind and lucky as they come)

Raised between the oceanfront calm of Spanish Banks in Vancouver and the warmth of Barbados, Mr. McLean grew up with a global perspective shaped by contrast — privilege without entitlement, exposure without complacency. The only father he knew, Mr. John Nugent (BA, JD, MBA, CFA Level I), legally adopted him at age nine (although ‘introduced’ at age three), marking Mr. McLean’s first direct encounter with litigation involving an absentee biological parent (father). He remains grateful to Mr. Jim Schuman, QC (as he then was), whose guidance during that process left a lasting impression on him.

Learning from the best through “osmosis” like a sponge in the Caribbean Sea

Living in Barbados part of each year throughout the 1980s and 1990s — never fully realizing how fortunate he was — Mr. McLean was introduced early to concepts such as trusts, tax residency requirements, capital gains, seed capital, convertible debentures, preferred shares, and other foundational elements of financial architecture. As his father often reminded him, “Education gets the foot in the door, but you learn and grow by doing — and you are either getting better or getting worse.”

Before his foray into junior mining on the West Coast — a sector many affectionately referred to as the “Wild West” — — Mr. Nugent served as President of Gardiner Group Stock Inc., where he managed more than 4,000 stock brokers, investment advisors, money managers, and analysts prior to the firm’s acquisition by TD Bank (a detail Mr. McLean now finds somewhat ironic). It was during this period that Mr. Nugent met Mr. McLean’s mother, then a stock broker and now a highly accomplished, world‑renowned professor and philanthropist with a Ph.D. The greatest compliment Mr. McLean has ever received came from Mr. Nugent himself, who once told him: “The best talker, salesman, and charismatic person I have ever seen. If he gets some substance, it will be a dangerous package in the real world.” Therein, the seeds of a dangerous truth-telling was born. Refinement and maturity were late blooming qualities – admittedly so.

Educational and Athletic Blessings: the infrastructure to form the public interest litigator

Mr. McLean was privileged and blessed to have attended the prestigious St. George’s School in Vancouver for both elementary and high school. When he realized that his then‑dream of representing Canada in a singular sport was becoming a reality, he transitioned to the Sports and Arts Program at Magee Secondary School, where he could begin classes an hour early and avoid elective and physical‑education requirements. This structure allowed him to train at an elite level, ultimately reaching number two in Canada in the U18 division and competing globally as a member of the Canadian National Tennis Team. He graduated from Magee Secondary School as the top student, earning the Principal’s List distinction with a 4.0 GPA in all courses.

Mr. Kevin A. McLean (BA, JD, CIM) carries on the Spanish Banks (Vancouver) running excellence tradition into the field of law nationwide (Canadian Bar Association 5 KM race)

While running a 15‑minute 5K at age 30 in the Canadian Bar Association race was an immense athletic accomplishment, Mr. McLean cherishes it most because he felt he was protecting the turf where his father had given him the privilege of growing up. His second most cherished athletic memory was winning the five‑kilometre race for the entire high school in Grade 9.

His earliest remains hitting two free throws with one second left — down by one — in Grade 7 to win the Vancouver city championship for St. George’s against St. Patrick’s. His earliest remains hitting two free throws with one second left — down by one — in Grade 7 to win the Vancouver city championship for St. George’s against St. Patrick’s.

The “McLean Name”: from the Highlands of Scotland and ode to William Wallace

The McLean name is Scottish, carried forward from Mr. McLean’s grandfather, Mr. Angus Alexander McLean, P. Eng. — the source of Mr. McLean’s middle name. Angus was married to Mrs. Margaret McLean, once the top tennis player in Canada in the 1940s and an accomplished field‑hockey athlete. She tragically passed away from cancer before Mr. She tragically passed away from cancer before Mr. McLean could meet her, though he has always understood why sport came naturally to him — the long stride, the biomechanics, and the competitive instinct. Angus suffered from macular degeneration, leaving him fully blind at age 60, and later Parkinson’s disease. He passed away in 2002, but Mr. McLean visited him every summer in Salmon Arm (having been born in Smithers, B.C.), often accompanied by his paternal grandmother, Ms. McLean visited him every summer in Salmon Arm (having been born in Smithers, B.C.), often accompanied by his paternal grandmother, Ms. Helen Elizabeth Lane (née Allsop), a pilot well into her 80s who passed away in 2012 and remains his favourite woman of all time. Mr. McLean often reflects on his grandfather’s resilience, noting: “I never heard him complain once — and if we could all be so grateful to be alive.” Through an eccentric yet uniquely detailed family tree, Mr. McLean learned that the McLean surname traces back to the 1300s in Scotland alongside none other than Sir William Wallace (later sensationalized by Mel Gibson in Braveheart). It thus became unsurprising to him why he has always been so staunchly stubborn and assertive about one’s rights, no matter the circumstance.

The Most Unique of Skill Sets at age 43 (March 25, 1983) (a “True Aries”)

Intersections of Law and Cryptography

The professional trajectory of Mr. McLean is defined by the deconstruction of unauthorized surveillance networks and the exposure of systemic irregularities.

Forensic Capabilities: His forensic data skills have frequently addressed complex anomalies within administrative and appellate contexts.
Blockchain Analysis: Following a 2014 incident involving an unauthorized RAM dump, Mr. McLean acquired proficiency in hexadecimal language to parse a one-million-page compressed architectural record.
Cross-Chain Tracking: He successfully traced unauthorized data disclosures across the Ethereum blockchain in Switzerland and EVM-compatible networks, such as the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).
Judicial Evidence: These findings provided significant blockchain evidence before the Honourable Justice Bowden of the British Columbia Supreme Court (BCSC) in December 2015 which was withheld from the BCSC (see: McLean v. Law Society of British Columbia, 2015 BCSC 661; McLean v. Law Society of British Columbia, 2015 BCSC 1431; McLean v. Law Society of British Columbia, 2015 BCSC 1972; McLean v Law Society of British Columbia, 2017 BCSC 987; Law Society of British Columbia (Re), 2018 BCIPC 37 (author was the successful unnamed respondent therein); and McLean v. Attorney General of British Columbia, 2019 BCCA 133 [defeated the AGBC at the Court of Appeal, no leave to appeal by AGBC]; and by change of legislation in 2024, the author has become the first to ever defeat in any motion, hearing and in finality a professional and regulatory association or body at all and in the field of public interest litigation involving the breach of Charter rights of members and clients of members

Adversity and Resilience

After transitioning to e-commerce ventures in the health and wellness sector in 2015, Mr. McLean navigated and is navigating as a result of CAT impairments (physical in nature but with mind-body connection) significant extralegal challenges and physical trauma.

Physical Recovery: Following a severe vehicular incident on August 31, 2022, which resulted in devastating spinal injuries, he maintains a disciplined daily regimen involving specialized orthotics and minimalist biomechanics to manage his recovery.
Procedural Strategy: Despite physical hardship, Mr. McLean utilized an extensive command of procedural law during a multi-jurisdictional detention to secure his release by demanding adherence to Criminal Code protocols, specifically Form 2 and Form 7 requirements.

Litigation and Procedural Discovery

This commitment to legal redress led to the discovery of a notable event in Canadian legal history: the post-facto falsification of a six-page “Information Package” (footer CCO-2–000-1).

Case Comparison: While historical precedents such as R. v. Silva (Quebec 2019/2020) involved the unauthorized use of a judicial stamp, the wholesale falsification of an entire six-page package is considered unprecedented.
Ongoing Oversight: Further irregularities, nullities (jurisdictional in nature) discovered involving various levels of the judiciary remain subjects of scrutiny and formal complaint.

Outside Interests: Athletics and mental health (lifelong journeys – not destinations)

Mr. Kevin A. McLean (BA, JD, CIM) has always lived life at full speed — sometimes literally. He still holds the record for the fastest five‑kilometre time ever run by a lawyer in the Canadian Bar Association’s annual 5K race, clocking an extraordinary 15:05 in one of the years he won the event. Before entering law, Kevin competed on the Canadian National Tennis Team (U16 and U18), representing Canada at the world‑renowned Orange Bowl — the largest junior tennis tournament on the planet. Winning a round there placed him among the top 20 junior players globally in his age category.

His athletic career continued at The Ohio State University, where he played NCAA tennis on scholarship beginning in 2001. To this day, Kevin remains a proud Buckeye, a donor to the university, and a familiar (or intentionally hard‑to‑find) face on eight or so College Football Saturdays each year in Columbus, Ohio. He still enjoys the tradition of “Kegs and Eggs,” though for him it’s now just the eggs — Kevin is a long‑retired drinker who speaks openly and gratefully about the role evidence‑based treatment including medication for ADHD played in transforming his life. He recommends (but does not advise) anyone struggling with any such symptoms to seek professional help from a qualified psychiatrist.

Kevin is single, unmarried, and a non‑parent — not out of absence, but out of purpose. As he likes to say, he is “married to the game,” and he believes “the public deserves it.” His work, his advocacy, and his commitment to building accessible legal knowledge platforms reflect that ethos: disciplined, service‑oriented, and driven by a sense of responsibility larger than himself.

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Regarding any subjective apprehension of a nascent cause of action within the jurisdiction of Ontario grounded in defamation, or any alternative tortious liability implicating this digital publication platform (the “Publication Platform”), the aforementioned commercial enterprise, or the individual proprietor, Kevin Alexander McLean, B.A., J.D., C.I.M. (the “Proprietor”, “CEO”, “Owner”, “Editor”)—who formerly practiced as a barrister and solicitor in the jurisdiction of British Columbia and maintains the professional designation of Chartered Investment Manager—it is unequivocally mandated that such grievances be addressed pursuant to the rigorous strictures of Canadian tort jurisprudence.

Should litigation be commenced against the commercial enterprise or the proprietor pertaining to allegations of defamation, irrespective of the underlying judiciousness of the antecedent legal advisement, service of process shall be accepted exclusively via electronic transmission at the previously designated electronic mailing addresses, thereby effectuating a binding waiver of the requirement for effectuating personal service. Notwithstanding this procedural concession, an unequivocal reservation of rights is maintained in limine for the explicit purpose of seeking security for costs, pursuing the summarily striking of the pleadings via summary judgment—strictly distinguished from a summary trial—and applying for elevated cost awards on a substantial indemnity or full indemnity basis against the initiating party in either a personal or corporate capacity. Furthermore, overarching rights are expressly reserved to seek interlocutory and injunctive relief, alongside the commencement of counterclaims seeking substantive damages for multifarious tortious infractions, expressly including the tort of abuse of process, and concurrently seeking remedial measures against any retained legal representatives. The prerogative to freely publish commentary delineating the procedural evolution of any such litigation, constituting public acta, is similarly and irrevocably reserved.

Given that causes of action sounding in defamation must be adjudicated before a superior court possessing inherent jurisdiction—specifically, a tribunal constituted pursuant to section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867 (the “Section 96 Court”)—any party initiating such proceedings irrevocably attorns generally to the jurisdiction of the Province of Ontario and to that specific judicial echelon at first instance. Judicial resources remain intrinsically finite; their utilization necessitates the expenditure of the public treasury across multiple governmental strata. This encompasses the executive branch, financed by the provincial government via the taxation of the citizenry; the judicial branch, remunerated by the federal government; and tertiary municipal expenditures whereby auxiliary judicial officers are perpetually contracted through municipal law enforcement agencies, functioning effectively as a government institution (the “Government Institution”), such as the Toronto Police Services Board.

While the fundamental right to articulate dissenting opinions is rigorously respected, and electronic correspondence remains welcomed for the exclusive purpose of identifying substantive inaccuracies necessitating amelioration, it is unambiguously declared that no financial indemnification shall be disbursed, as no valid cause of action in defamation or otherwise is recognized to subsist. Consequently, should the instigation of formal litigation remain the finalized trajectory, the requisite tariff of fees must be remitted in strict accordance with the attendant regulations promulgated under the Administration of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.4. Subsequently, discrete copies of the formally issued—as rigidly distinguished from merely filed—statement of claim (the “Statement Of Claim”) must be concurrently served upon all respective respondents, whereupon subsequent procedural mechanisms shall be accordingly activated. Any deviation from these prescribed procedural modalities, constituting a direct contravention of statutory mandates, the equitable doctrines of fairness, or the strictures delineated within the Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194 (the “Procedural Rules”), shall categorically not be countenanced as a remediable irregularity. Rather, such defective origination or procedural non-compliance shall be definitively construed as an absolute nullity, functioning ultra vires the initiating party’s jurisprudential authority, and effectuating a compulsory reversion to the status quo ante.

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