The Court granted summary judgment in favour of the respondent lawyers on almost all causes of action, holding that prior judgments from the lien action, storage action, adjudication proceedings, and debt actions created res judicata and issue estoppel precluding the applicant from relitigating liability for legal fees. The Court confirmed that to set aside a perfected judgment for fraud, the fraud must be on the court and its decision-making process — not merely fraud alleged in the underlying transaction — and that the applicant had failed to plead any conduct compromising the courts' decision-making. The sole surviving cause of action related to an allegation that the bankruptcy proceeding was an abuse of process, which had not been determined in the earlier proceedings, though the Court left open whether that claim should be pursued in the Federal Circuit and Family Court rather than the Supreme Court.
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