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In Massoudi v. Vice Media LLC, the Court allowed the appeal of a libel action that had been summarily dismissed under the three-month time bar in the Libel and Slander Act. The Court confirmed that an exclusively online newspaper can be “printed and published in Ontario” under s. 7 even if its server and database is located elsewhere. However, for the strict LSA time limits to apply, the Article must clearly identify the publisher. In this case, the publisher was not identified and was therefore not entitled to rely on the strict LSA time limit for giving notice of the libel. In Martin v. Mississauga (City), the Court dismissed the appellant’s appeal from the motion judge’s dismissal of her motion to set aside a Settlement Agreement in a wrongful dismissal case.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of October 19, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of October 12, 2026.

This is the author's first of two articles on requests to admit. It discusses deemed and inadvertent admissions – and how to withdraw them. The author also provides commentary on how overarching considerations of the interests of justice drive the jurisprudence on motions to withdraw, even if those considerations are not themselves elements of the applicable test.

Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for the week of October 5, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 28, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 21, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 7, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 31, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 24, 2026. It was a light week.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 17, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 3 to 7, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 27, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 20, 2026. 

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 13, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 6, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of June 29, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of June 22, 2026.

Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for the week of June 15, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of June 8, 2026.

Successful mediation outcomes depend on more than legal preparation - they require clients who are emotionally ready and engaged in the process. In this article, mediator Stuart Rudner shares practical guidance on how counsel can bridge the gap between being prepared on paper and being prepared at the mediation table.

In Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) customised a new tort of intimate partner violence (IPV) in response to what it described as the “pernicious social ill” of coercive control in intimate relationships. In doing so, the SCC granted family law litigants and survivors of IPV a powerful civil remedy; and practitioners, a comprehensive and structured primer on the advent of novel torts, marking a first in Canadian law. Although this decision arose in a family law dispute, it is expected to shape the development of tort law well beyond the confines of family law, making it an essential read for all civil litigators. This article focuses on the SCC’s preion governing the evolution of new torts.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of June 1, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 25, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 11, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 13, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 20, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 6, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of March 30, 2026.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of March 23, 2026.