What is the burden of establishing the bona fides of a transaction between near relatives?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Global Pacific Financial Services Ltd. v Canlas, 2021 BCSC 2419 (CanLII):

Where “suspicion touches a transaction made between near relatives, the burden of establishing the bona fides of the transaction shifts from the plaintiff to the parties to the transaction”: Jennings v. Chow, 2008 BCSC 110 at para. 18.

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