The claims involved consideration of Canadian principles of natural justice. The key question was whether the defendants received actual notice of the Chinese claims against them, notwithstanding that they were never served with the claims in person or by mail. The judge held that, even if the defendants had known generally that there were claims against them in China (which the judge did not find), this alone would not have amounted to adequate notice.
Lonking (China) Machinery Sales Co. Ltd. v Xingfu Zhao and Rentao Li
Partner Stephen R. Schachter, K.C. and associates James P. Parker and Edith Chen successfully acted for the defendants in an action involving two members of a large Chinese group of companies that sought to enforce default judgments of more than $7 million obtained in China against two individual Canadian residents.
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