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Surrey Uncle Demanded Refund Of Wedding Gift
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 127593" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Surrey uncle demanded refund of wedding gift</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: navy">By </span><u><span style="color: navy">Dan Ferguson - Surrey North Delta Leader</span></u></p><p><span style="color: navy">Published: <strong>May 23, 2010 6:00 AM</strong> </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">When Surrey blueberry farmer Surjit Gill arranged the marriage of his niece Kulwinder Kaur to Balbir Jaspal in 2000, he gave the husband-to-be $25,000.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">Two years after the marriage took place, Gill demanded the money back. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The matter ended up in court, where a Vancouver B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled the money was a gift, not a loan, and did not have to be repaid.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">In her written reasons for judgement released Tuesday, Justice Gail Dickson said neither Gill nor his wife Parmjit Gill were credible witnesses.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">"He [Gill] testified in a manner that was evasive and sometimes demonstrably inaccurate," Dickson said.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">The wife Dickson said, "gave her evidence in a pat manner in an apparent effort to mirror Mr. Gill's evidence."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">Gill claimed that Jaspal had demanded a loan before he went to India to get married and pressured the uncle into taking the money out of an already-overdrawn bank account.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">The judge called that version of events "inherently improbable."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">There was nothing written on the cheque to show the amount was a loan, Dickson noted, nor was there any written loan agreement.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">Jaspal and another man testified that when Gill wrote the cheque, he said nothing about a loan, hugging his niece's fiancé and saying "this is what I promised you."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">Jaspal's testimony was "generally credible" the judge said.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">The written reasons for judgment noted that before their falling-out over the money, the younger Jaspal and Gill were friends.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">"The sum advanced was undeniably substantial," the judge said.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">"Mr. Gill is, however a man of substantial means. He chose to offer and give Mr, Jaspal a wedding gift of this magnitude. For undisclosed reasons, he later had a change of heart."</span></p><p></p><p><a href="mailto:dferguson@surreyleader.com"><span style="color: navy">dferguson@surreyleader.com</span></a></p><p></p><p><span style="color: navy">source:</span></p><p><a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/94617874.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/94617874.html</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 127593, member: 884"] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]Surrey uncle demanded refund of wedding gift[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=navy] [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]By [/COLOR][U][COLOR=navy]Dan Ferguson - Surrey North Delta Leader[/COLOR][/U] [COLOR=navy]Published: [B]May 23, 2010 6:00 AM[/B] [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]When Surrey blueberry farmer Surjit Gill arranged the marriage of his niece Kulwinder Kaur to Balbir Jaspal in 2000, he gave the husband-to-be $25,000.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Two years after the marriage took place, Gill demanded the money back. [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The matter ended up in court, where a Vancouver B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled the money was a gift, not a loan, and did not have to be repaid.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In her written reasons for judgement released Tuesday, Justice Gail Dickson said neither Gill nor his wife Parmjit Gill were credible witnesses.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"He [Gill] testified in a manner that was evasive and sometimes demonstrably inaccurate," Dickson said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The wife Dickson said, "gave her evidence in a pat manner in an apparent effort to mirror Mr. Gill's evidence."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Gill claimed that Jaspal had demanded a loan before he went to India to get married and pressured the uncle into taking the money out of an already-overdrawn bank account.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The judge called that version of events "inherently improbable."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]There was nothing written on the cheque to show the amount was a loan, Dickson noted, nor was there any written loan agreement.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Jaspal and another man testified that when Gill wrote the cheque, he said nothing about a loan, hugging his niece's fiancé and saying "this is what I promised you."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Jaspal's testimony was "generally credible" the judge said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The written reasons for judgment noted that before their falling-out over the money, the younger Jaspal and Gill were friends.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"The sum advanced was undeniably substantial," the judge said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"Mr. Gill is, however a man of substantial means. He chose to offer and give Mr, Jaspal a wedding gift of this magnitude. For undisclosed reasons, he later had a change of heart."[/COLOR] [EMAIL="dferguson@surreyleader.com"][COLOR=navy]dferguson@surreyleader.com[/COLOR][/EMAIL] [COLOR=navy]source:[/COLOR] [URL="http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/94617874.html"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/94617874.html[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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