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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (FEBRUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 14, 2020)

By John Polyzogopoulos

February 16, 2020

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions | Ontario Review Board Good afternoon, Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Ingarra v. 3010999 Ontario Limited (Previn Court Homes) is a reminder to residential real estate lawyers that their clients purchasing new homes have added rights under the Tarion legislation regarding extensions of the closing date. Real estate solicitors…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (FEBRUARY 3 – FEBRUARY 7, 2020)

By John Polyzogopoulos

February 9, 2020

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions | Ontario Review Board Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In Thistle v Schumilias, an insurer refused to pay out on a life insurance policy on the basis that the insured had failed to disclose a pre-existing medical condition. The respondent commenced an action against the insurance company and during that litigation…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 27 – JANUARY 31, 2020)

By John Polyzogopoulos

February 1, 2020

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions Good evening. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. The theme of the week was real property and condominiums.…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 20 – JANUARY 24, 2020)

By John Polyzogopoulos

January 27, 2020

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions Good afternoon. Following are last week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 13 – JANUARY 17, 2020)

By John Polyzogopoulos

January 19, 2020

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions Hello again. There were only two substantive civil decisions this week. One was a residential tenancy matter. The other was an estates matter that reminds us that claims for purely declaratory relief (in that case, whether a codicil was or was not valid) are not subject to any limitation period.…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 6 – JANUARY 10, 2020)

By John Polyzogopoulos

January 10, 2020

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions| Ontario Review Board Hello. There were several substantive decisions released this week by the Court of Appeal. Topics covered included challenging decisions of a voluntary religious association, solicitor liens, limitation periods in the LTD context, enforcement of foreign judgments, adverse possession, and an application for reconsideration of an appeal relating to the assessment of legal accounts in the condominium…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 30, 2019 – JANUARY 3, 2020)

By John Polyzogopoulos

January 4, 2020

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions Good afternoon. I hope everyone’s New Year is off to a great start. There were three civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal this week. Topics covered included the apportionment of costs following settlement of an MVA case, the admissibility of documents in a personal injury case, and Anti-SLAPP.…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 27, 2019)

By John Polyzogopoulos

December 30, 2019

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions | Ontario Review Board Good afternoon. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah and are continuing to enjoy the holidays. Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario released during the week of December 23. There were more than we had been expecting! In Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Ferrier, the Court examined…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 20, 2019)

By John Polyzogopoulos

December 22, 2019

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Criminal Decisions| Ontario Review Board Good afternoon, Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In Sosnowski v. MacEwen Petroleum Inc., the Court appears to have unconvincingly dialed back how far the “appropriate means” test can go to extend the limitation period. In this case, the employee waited until he was acquitted of…

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Blaneys Fidelity Blog: Closing Out 2019

By David S. Wilson, Stuart Woody & Maria C. Christodoulou

December 17, 2019

Dear Clients, Colleagues and Confreres: In this, our last blog for the year, we pass on a smorgasbord of items. Serious Fraud Office The Ontario government recently announced the formation of the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) to investigate and prosecute complex white collar crime. The SFO is to work with existing law enforcement agencies to help combat serious or complex fraud claims of all types in Ontario (unlike the IMET division of the RCMP which…

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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (FEBRUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 14, 2020)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (FEBRUARY 3 – FEBRUARY 7, 2020)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 27 – JANUARY 31, 2020)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 20 – JANUARY 24, 2020)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 13 – JANUARY 17, 2020)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JANUARY 6 – JANUARY 10, 2020)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 30, 2019 – JANUARY 3, 2020)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 27, 2019)

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 20, 2019)

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