Think you can walk away from a home purchase if the market turns against you? One Ottawa buyer tried — and got hit with a hefty bill.

Install a doorbell and a washing machine without permission, and a condo board can make you pay to find out why rules exist.

A couple settled everything in their divorce except who gets to keep the cat — and the law had a cold answer for their teenage son.

A snowstorm derailed their flight and stranded their luggage for 9 days — Air Canada tried to get the lawsuit thrown out on a technicality, and lost.

Fired after just 10 days on the job, this employee walked away with over $12,000 — because "probation" doesn't mean "no rules."

A couple's land flooded for years after the government upgraded a culvert — and the court ruled there was nothing they could do about it.

One litigant sued her own judge and then argued that lawsuit meant the judge had to step aside — the court wasn't buying it.

Not knowing your landlord lives overseas won't save you — this tenant got hit with years of back taxes for rent they never withheld.

He cancelled the Airbnb booking and thought that made it disappear. The court disagreed.

She signed a waiver, took the insurance payout, then sued anyway — and found out a signature really does mean something.

A condo corp got hit with a $115,000 default judgment without even knowing about it — but hiding a side deal with the other lawyer cost the plaintiff the win.

A tenant used the same parking spot free for 9 years — long enough for the court to rule it became part of the lease itself.

Two words in a handwritten will decided who got the house: the widow or the stepdaughters.

She turned old, closed-down high schools into a nostalgia clothing line — and got hit with a copyright bill for nearly $24,000.

A crypto "stop-loss" promise turned out to be fake — and the court made the broker personally pay back over $152,000, corporation or not.