Articles 2020

Chief Justice McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada, in the summer of 2009, noted that fewer construction cases are being tried due to “complexity, time, preservation of relationships, cost, risk of outcome and other such factors”. 

In a recent construction lien matter, the question arose whether a party defendant could add a non-party as a defendant to counterclaim.

At the beginning of January, 2012, the administrative support available to Masters in Toronto was re-structured due to government cut-backs.

Internorth Construction Company (“Internorth”) was a design build contractor and general contractor. From 2001 to 2004 the only directors of Internorth were Marvin Marshall (“Marshall”) and Dane Hooks (“Hooks”).

The Supreme Court of Canada’s 1995 decision in Winnipeg Condominium Corporation No. 36 v. Bird Construction Co. Ltd.2 had a dramatic impact upon the construction industry...

A recent decision of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeal Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) has significantly expanded the scope of entitlement for workplace events that cause traumatic mental stress.

In Urbacon Building Groups Corp. v. The Corporation of The City of Guelph, a subcontractor, Swan & Associates Inc., moves for a declaration that its claim for lien was timely, and for partial summary judgment with respect to that issue.

The Court of Appeal’s decision in the Combined Air Mechanical Services v. Flesch, et al case and their Application in the Construction Lien Context