Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good afternoon. Below are our last summaries of 2020, which include all civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the weeks of December 21 and 28, 2020. Topics covered included human rights in the employment context, the refusal to enforce a foreign letter of request in the family law context, a breach of contract decision in the real estate…

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good evening. Following are our summaries of the past week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. The Court delivered a flurry of year-end decisions ahead of the holidays. In Duggan v Durham Region Non-Profit Housing Corporation, the Court overruled the Divisional Court and found that Rule 6.1.01 of the Rules of Civil Procedure ousts the court’s inherent jurisdiction to bifurcate…

Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions | Bonus Provincial Offences Decision Good evening. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for the week of December 7, 2020. We have also summarized R. v. Irwin, a provincial offences decision relating to Building Code violations, as it deals with the rule prohibiting collateral attacks of orders, and is therefore a decision applicable in the…

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 November 30, 2020. In Zoutman v. Graham, another anti-SLAPP, the Court agreed with the motion judge that the appellant’s delay of more than 6 months in bringing the motion (after the plaintiff had brought a motion for summary judgment) was fatal to…