Our client, a public accountant, sold his practice to a much larger accounting firm. The firm failed to make many of the payments called for under the agreement between them and treated our client badly. Eventually they made matters so unbearable that our client had to leave and re-opened his own practice. We succeeded in persuading the trial judge to award substantial damages and a large portion of our client’s legal costs but we considered the outcome insufficient. On further proceedings, the Ontario Court of Appeal awarded our client additional damages for breach of fiduciary duty.
