What are the elements of a cause of action in unjust enrichment?
Yukon, Canada
The following excerpt is from Northern Cross (Yukon) Ltd. v. Yukon (Energy, Mines and Resources), 2021 YKSC 3 (CanLII):
The essential elements of a cause of action in unjust enrichment are: … (a) that the defendant was enriched; (b) that the plaintiff suffered a corresponding deprivation; and (c) that the defendant’s enrichment and the plaintiff’s corresponding deprivation occurred in the absence of a juristic reason … (Moore v. Sweet, 2018 SCC 52 (“Moore”), at para. 37)
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