Hodgkinson v. Simms & Waldman

97 B.C.L.R. (2d) 1 (S.C.C.), [1994] 9 W.W.R. 609, 22 C.C.L.T. (2d) 1, 117 D.L.R. (4th) 161, 171 N.R. 245, 57 C.P.R. (3d) 1, 16 B.L.R. (2d) 1, 5 E.T.R. (2d) 1, 49 B.C.A.C. 1, 80 W.A.C. 1, [1994] S.C.R. 377, 95 D.T.C. 5135, 6 C.C.L.S. 1; Lerners represented the successful appellant in the Supreme Court of Canada in this seminal case that decides that even sophisticated parties may be owed a fiduciary duty in an investment advisor situation.