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Boaden Catering Limited v. Real Food For Real Kids Inc. was a contest over website domain names. The decision of United States v Equinix Inc. dealt with the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, which allows countries that have a mutual legal assistance treaty with Canada to seek the help of the Minister of Justice in locating and obtaining relevant evidence believed to be in Canada.

Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In York (Regional Municipality) v. Tsui, the Court concluded that municipal by-laws that circumscribe the hours of operation of body rub parlours are not criminal laws and therefore not ultra vires. In Scaduto v Cucu, the Court considered whether to grant amicus curiae status to a party that had been adverse in interest in previous proceedings.

There were only three short procedural decisions we summarized this week.

Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. There were not many substantive decisions and of those, none were particularly noteworthy. Topics covered included family law, conflict of laws (choice of law), MVA, jury charges and reasonable apprehension of bias.

Summaries for this past week’s civil decisions. In Moore v Sweet, the Court discussed whether a constructive trust can be imposed only on two bases: unjust enrichment and wrongful acts, or whether there are other grounds to award a constructive trust. Other topics included family law decisions, several procedural decisions – jurisdiction, reasonable apprehension of bias, sufficiency of reasons, setting aside orders, extensions of time to appeal and stays pending appeal.

Summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Topics covered this week included: the effect of pending retirement on a high income earner with spousal support obligations (Schulstad); a dispute between two law firms regarding an agency agreement that resulted in a charging order (Fancy Barristers); and the sufficiency of a pleading in a defamation case (Catalyst Capital).

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).

Summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal. Topics covered this week included a number of civil procedure issues (civil contempt, appeal routes, administrative dismissals for delay), of couple of real property/municipal law cases (dedication of roads, relief from forfeiture) and an unjust enrichment case in the context of a family dispute.