Law360 Canada ( October 19, 2026, 9:42 AM EDT) -- Appeal by appellants from order refusing to extend time to appeal an associate judge’s order absolute of foreclosure and refusal to extend the redemption period. The appellants granted two mortgages with overlapping priorities over six titles comprising approximately 64 acres in Mission, B.C. (the Lands). The Respondent was assigned both, totalling $17.5 million. After the redemption period expired, the associate judge found sufficient equity but no reasonable prospect of redemption through refinancing or sale. She considered both mortgages and found that a contemplated transaction might yield at most a three per cent lift after transfer tax, which was not a probable unreasonable windfall given its costs and risks. The Supreme Court Civil Rules required an appeal within 14 days. Former counsel first filed in the wrong court, making the notice 41 days late. The chambers judge applied the five extension factors, found the intended windfall ground bound to fail and dismissed the application. Leave to appeal was limited to whether he erred in assessing the second mortgage’s significance to a possible windfall. The appellants argued that the respondent’s bankruptcy proof of claim and continuing personal covenant could produce a windfall. The respondent characterized any windfall as hypothetical. A trustee later determined that merger did not extinguish the mortgage debt. Neither the proof-of-claim issue nor merger was argued before the chambers judge. The appellants conceded that his discretionary decision attracted deference....