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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (March 25 – March 29)
Good Friday. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of March 25, 2024. Continue Reading Palmer v. Teva Canada Limited was a proposed class action against several pharmaceutical companies for negligently manufacturing contaminated valsartan, a medication for high blood pressure. The plaintiffs sought damages...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (February 19 – February 23)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of February 26, 2024. Continue Reading Congratulations to our very own Anthony Gatensby and our recently retired partner, Dominic Clarke, for the result...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 25- December 29)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good evening. There were only three civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the short week of December 25, 2023. Continue Reading In this week’s headline decision, Thales DIS Canada Inc. v. Ontario (Transportation), Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation faced...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 18-22)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of December 18, 2023. Continue Reading The headline decision this week was Baker v Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada. The respondent, who suffered a...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (September 25 – September 29)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 25, 2023. It was another fairly light week. Continue Reading Topics covered this week included: stay pending appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (August 28 – September 1)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 28, 2023. Continue Reading I hope everyone is enjoying the last long weekend of the summer. Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation v. Canada...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (July 3- July 7, 2023)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 3, 2023. Continue Reading In 9725440 Canada Inc. v. Vijayakumar, the Court considered the remedy of specific performance in failed real estate transaction. The...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (June 26- June 30, 2023)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good evening. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of June 26, 2023. Continue Reading In 10720143 Canada Corp. v. 2698874 Ontario Inc., a default judgment was obtained against a business partner...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (April 10, 2023 – April 14, 2023)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 10, 2023. Continue Reading 100 Bloor Street West Corporation v. Barry’s BootCamp Canada Inc. is a commercial lease interpretation case regarding...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (March 6, 2023 – March 10, 2023)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of March 6, 2023. Continue Reading In Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc. v. Ontario (Attorney General), the Court released its decision pertaining to three appeals concerning the...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 12, 2022 – DECEMBER 16, 2022)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good morning. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of December 12, 2022. Continue Reading In Vale Canada Limited v. Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada, the Court undertook a complex jurisdictional analysis for...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (NOVEMBER 14, 2022 – NOVEMBER 18, 2022)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good evening. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of November 14, 2022. Continue Reading Notably, in the companion decisions of Enercare Home & Commercial Services Limited Partnership v. UNIFOR Local 975 and Turkiewicz (Tomasz Turkiewicz...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JUNE 27 – JUNE 30)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. We hope everyone is enjoying this Canada Day long weekend. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of June 27, 2022. Continue Reading In Sakab Saudi Holding Company v Jabri, the respondents...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (MAY 30, 2022 – June 3, 2022)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 30, 2022. Continue Reading In SS&C Technologies Canada Corp v The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, the Court determined that the application judge had...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 4, 2022)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of January 31-February 4, 2022. Continue Reading Congratulations to Blaney lawyer Jason Mangano for successfully defending an appeal in a condominium law case involving the ability...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (OCTOBER 4-8, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of October 4, 2021. There were ten substantive civil decisions this week. Continue Reading N. v. F. is a child abduction case...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (SEPTEMBER 7-10, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 7, 2021. Continue Reading Congratulations to our very own Anthony H. Gatensby and W. Colin Empke for their success in Panasonic Eco Solutions Canada Inc....
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (AUGUST 23-27, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions| Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of August 23, 2021. Continue Reading There were three substantive civil decisions this week. Vu v. Canada (Attorney General) deals with discoverability and limitation...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JULY 2-9)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 5, 2021. Continue Reading Topics covered this week included civil forfeiture of proceeds of unlawful activity, regulated professions, family law, breach of fiduciary duty...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JUNE 21 – 25)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of June 21, 2021. Continue Reading In Manastersky v. Royal Bank of Canada, the Court dealt with a wrongful dismissal appeal on damages that was remanded by...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (MAY 10-14, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon, Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 10, 2021. Continue Reading In Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General), the Court of Appeal considered a motion for a stay...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (April 19 – April 23, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 19, 2021. In Fercan Developments v Canada, the Court confirmed that the plaintiffs who waited until after criminal and civil forfeiture...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (March 8 – March 12, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of March 8, 2021. Continue Reading In Mikelsteins v. Morrison Hershfield Limited, the Court of Appeal had to reconsider its previous decision on...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (FEBRUARY 1 – 5, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of February 1, 2021. Continue Reading In Albert Bloom Limited v London Transit Commission, the Court explored limitation periods in the context of...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 18 – 22, 2021)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions Good afternoon. This past week, the Court of Appeal for Ontario provided us with several substantive and interesting civil decisions. The Court of Appeal released two related decisions in Subway Franchise Systems of Canada, Inc. v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Subway sued the CBC and Trent University, which...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (October 26 – October 30, 2020)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Good afternoon. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for the week of October 26, 2020. The headline decision is 7636156 Canada Inc. (Re). In a 54-page decision, the Court of Appeal canvassed in detail...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (August 24 – 28, 2020)
Good afternoon. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario during the week of August 24 to 28, 2020. There was a plethora of decisions released. The headliner last week was undoubtedly Duffy v. Canada (Senate). Senator Duffy was acquitted of criminal charges relating to the...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (June 1 – 5, 2020)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Please find our summaries of last week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. The most interesting and notable decision this week was Justice Thorburn’s decision in Wright v. Horizons ETFS Management (Canada) Inc. Like Darmar Farms, which was...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (MAY 11 – 15, 2020)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions Good morning. Please find our summaries of the four substantive civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario released last week. In 4352238 Canada Inc. v. SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the Court ordered the appeal to be heard in writing over the objection of one...
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (APRIL 27 – MAY 1)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions | Ontario Review Board Good morning. Please find our summaries of last week’s civil decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In Curriculum Services Canada/Services Des Programmes D’Études Canada (Re), the Court confirmed that once a trustee in bankruptcy disclaims a lease, the landlord...

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