Civil court legal battles were won, lost, launched - and generated plenty of press - during the past year.
Perhaps the biggest to come to an end was that between Northern Development Initiative Trust and Commonwealth Campus Corporation.
The sides reached an undisclosed resolution in July, more than three years after NDIT launched a foreclosure proceeding over a loan provided to Commonwealth to pay for land assembly in the downtown.
The land was primarily for the Wood Innovation and Design Centre but also for a failed attempt to develop student housing in the adjacent area.
Another long-running conflict lurched to an end over the spring and summer when Habitat for Humanity Canada was able to act on a B.C. Supreme Court decision to hand over all the local assets to the national organization.
Habitat Prince George, later named Hearts and Hands for Homes, had got into a squabble with Habitat Canada over standards that led to the local group being disaffiliated.
Habitat Canada has subsequently said it won't be reviving the movement in Prince George, which builds homes for low-income families, for the time being at least.
A frothy conflict over naming rights was decided in March when Prince George-based U-brew Caribou Brewmasters Inc. was ordered to change its name.
It amounted to a reversal of fortune given that it was the one who originally launched a lawsuit against local beermaker Pacific Western Brewery over the alleged similarities between its name and that of a line of PWB beer.
In January, local businessman Irvin Leroux gained a small measure of victory when he and the Canada Revenue Agency agreed to drop their appeals of a B.C. Supreme Court ruling over a long-running dispute.
Leroux was ordered to pay CRA the nominal sum of $10 for its court costs but a B.C. Supreme Court finding that CRA breached the expected standard of care in its assessment of penalties for alleged income tax violations remained intact.
Leroux subsequently launched a civil action against his lawyer, claiming he failed to do a proper job in arguing his case. The allegations have been denied.
Some major civil actions were also launched over the year, notably a class action by Lakeland and Babine sawmill employees against WorkSafeBC over the winter 2012 explosions that killed four workers and injured many more.
They're claiming WorkSafeBC failed to take the necessary steps to recognize the danger of wood dust and fell short in investigating the causes of the blast afterwards. WorkSafeBC has denied the allegations.
Fallout over his dismissal from a local dealership landed in court when Brent Marshall made a variety of allegations in a claim brought against the owners of Northland Jeep Dodge Chrysler.
In part, Marshall claims he was improperly represented after the Motor Vehicle Sales Authority fined him and Northland for deceptive practices. Northland's owners, in turn, said he was fired for launching an e-mail campaign to discredit the MVSA.
The matter remains before the court as does one launched against L.A. Promotions after a young boy suffered head injuries when he fell off a bouncy pirate ship during a Halloween party at the Roll-a-Dome.
Looking ahead, a trial is set to begin in January as a result of a lawsuit against BCR Properties Ltd. brought on by local lumber manufacturer John Brink.
Brink is alleging BCR fraudulently tried to hide the true state of the land on which he had intended to build a new sawmill complex, a 100-acre site at 1077 Boundary Road where the old Netherlands sawmill once sat.
The trial comes nearly a year after a B.C. Supreme Court Justice rejected an application from BCR to dismiss the lawsuit.
