What is the test for “clean hands” in a claim in equity?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Green Solutions Industries International Inc. v, 2022 ONSC 1505 (CanLII):
A party who seeks to obtain relief in equity, must come to the court with “clean hands”. To determine if a person has “unclean hands,” for the purposes of a claim in equity, the impugned conduct must have an immediate and necessary relation to the equity sued for. The court does not concern itself with the parties conduct generally, but only the conduct that relates directly to the very transaction concerning which the complaint is made: 2324702 Ontario v. 1305 Dundas, 2019 ONSC 1885, at para. 17-23.
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