SCC refuses 5-4 to expand banks’ defence to conversion claims

By Cristin Schmitz ( October 27, 2017, 2:17 PM EDT) -- In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court of Canada has declined to reconfigure its long-standing approach to the statutory defence to the tort of conversion to make it easier for financial institutions to avoid liability when they inadvertently cash fraudulent cheques....
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