{"id":722947,"date":"2026-06-08T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:15:09","slug":"supreme-court-rules-on-dispute-stemming-from-redevelopment-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722947\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules on Dispute Stemming from Redevelopment Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Supreme-Court-Crop.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Supreme Court Rules on Dispute Stemming from Redevelopment Project\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador has ruled on a dispute related to a redevelopment project in the capital city.   <\/p>\n<p>William Clarke helped Regal Realty Limited obtain rezoning approval for its project and assembled a design team, believing he would become a 50 per cent revenue partner. <\/p>\n<p>Regal and Clarke did not agree on partnership or revenue sharing. <\/p>\n<p>Regal eventually excluded Clarke and paid him nothing. <\/p>\n<p>The parties agreed that Regal was unjustly enriched, limiting Clarke\u2019s claim to reasonable compensation. <\/p>\n<p>The Court rejected Clarke\u2019s claim for profits and 2,100 hours of work. <\/p>\n<p>The Court applied unjust enrichment principles and market evidence. <\/p>\n<p>Justice Alexander MacDonald found Clarke\u2019s services were a mix of project management and facilitation. <\/p>\n<p>Clarke was awarded $37,000, plus HST, prejudgment interest and costs.]    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador has ruled on a dispute related to a redevelopment project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-722947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}