British Columbia: Judge dismisses ‘draconian’ effort to toss $18M online gambling lawsuit against law firm

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 4:01 PM
  • Dustin Godfrey, BIV

A Vancouver law firm has come up snake eyes in its effort to quash an $18-million lawsuit filed by two international online gambling companies.

Beadle Raven LLP and founder R. James Beadle’s arguments for tossing the case against them centred on pre-trial disclosure issues.

Despite that particular loss, the West Coast litigants were able to force the gaming companies to put forward an individual sought for pre-trial examination.

The lawsuit was filed in May 2019 by Jazette Enterprises Ltd. and Go Forward Solutions Ltd., companies based out of the island nations of Mauritius, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The companies operate an online gambling website.