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Ontario Considers Eliminating Juries from Civil Trials

  • June 23, 2020
  • David Milosevic, Milosevic Fiske LLP

Ontario's Attorney General considers eliminating civil jury trials, as a response to the expected backlog created by the COVID-19 pandemic. David Fiske reviews the underlying reasoning.

Civil Litigation, Student Forum

Court of Appeal Summaries (June 8 – 12, 2020)

  • June 19, 2020
  • John Polyzogopoulos

Following are our summaries of last week’s civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. There were four substantive decisions, but quite a few very short ones.

Civil Litigation, Student Forum

Court of Appeal Summaries (May 19-22, 2020)

  • May 31, 2020
  • John Polyzogopoulos

Following are summaries of last week’s civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Topics covered this week included rescission of a settlement agreement in an historical institutional sexual abuse case and stay pending an appeal from a default judgment for possession to prevent a power of sale.

Civil Litigation, Student Forum

Court of Appeal Summaries (May 11 – 15, 2020)

  • May 22, 2020
  • John Polyzogopoulos

Following are 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 of the parties, finding there was nothing in the Courts of Justice Act or the Rules of Civil Procedure that prevented the Court from doing so in these extraordinary times.

Civil Litigation, Student Forum