Articles 2020

Below are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. It was a busy week.

Here are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal. Determining the standard of review for issues of contractual interpretation has just been made more complicated with The GoodLife Fitness case. Other topics covered this week included limitation periods, property law, police liability, costs, and dog bite law.

Happy New Year! Here are summaries of this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal. Most of them were procedural in nature (dismissal for delay, appellate jurisdiction, limitation periods, setting aside orders, summary judgment).

Below are the summaries for last week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal. Topics covered included defamation, municipal liability, MVA, breach of contract, family law, wills and estates, tax, crown wardship and several procedural decisions covering jurisdiction/forum non conveniens, civil contempt, extensions of time to perfect appeals and striking pleadings.

Summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal. Topics covered this week include several family law decisions, police liability, the interpretation of municipal procurement bylaws, which is to be reviewed on a standard of correctness, and an unsuccessful attempt to enforce international arbitral awards obtained against a foreign state against the assets of a corporation wholly owned by that state.

Summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal.