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Good afternoon.Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 31, 2026.
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In Caroti v.
The Business of Building: A Conversation with David H. Crean, Founder and Managing Partner of Cardiff Advisory
For this edition of the Business of Building, I spoke with David H. Crean, Ph.D., founder and managing partner of Cardiff Advisory, whose career has taken him from the research lab to some of the most important conversations happening
Named to Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers
Canadian Lawyer released its 2026 list of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada yesterday and I am grateful to be included. This is the fourth time I have appeared on the list, but the first since 2013, when
Roland Hung becomes chair of Torkin Manes’ privacy, data, and cybersecurity group
He has also been named co-chair of the new AI and innovation group
Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLII? – August 2026
Each month, we tell you which five English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about using CanLII-published AI-generated summaries
Ontario Court of Appeal acquits man of CSAEM offences upon excluding computer evidence
Ruling says judge should’ve considered strip search in analyzing breach’s seriousness
Learning from Others: Summary Judgment in Canada
Suzanne Chiodo, Gerard Kennedy & Alyssa S. King, Hryniak’s Erosion: Summary Judgment in Ontario (Feb. 3, 2026) (Osgoode Legal Stud., Rsch. Paper No. 6401158, available at SSRN)
Any serious study of civil procedure in the United States should learn
AI Infrastructure Companies Hit with Securities Suits
As we have noted on this site, the increasing number of AI-related corporate and securities lawsuit filings is one of the most important recent developments in the world of D&O liability and insurance. Among the AI lawsuits is
If I Win, Do I Get My Legal Costs? Understanding Costs in Ontario Litigation
One of the first questions clients often ask when considering litigation is: “If I win, will the other side have to pay my legal fees?”
The short answer is sometimes, but rarely all your legal fees.
In the Ontario Superior
Margaret Hall named Bora Laskin Faculty of Law dean at Lakehead University
She was a criminology professor at Simon Fraser University