Articles 2020

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of February 3, 2025.

Alex Smith discusses a case involving statutory deadlines for discipline committees to release their written decisions and reasons.

Alex Smith provides an overview of the CJC's Guidelines for the Use of AI in Canadian Courts.

Emma Gardiner discusses two cases relating to OHIP billing which consider the admission and use of expert evidence before administrative tribunals.

This paper was paired with a presentation given by Nancy Smith at the Ontario Bar Association’s Ontario Legal Conference: Municipal, Planning and Environmental Law program held on February 6 & 7, 2025.

In this article, Joanna Strozak and Julie Weller of Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP provide an overview of recent updates to Ontario's workers' compensation legislation and WSIB policy. They examine legislative amendments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 through Bills 190 and 229, as well as revisions to OPM Document No. 18-02-02, "Determining Short-Term Average Earnings", and other policy-related developments.

In this article, John Bartolomeo of the Workers’ Health and Safety Legal Clinic discusses a recent decision of the WSIAT that offers helpful guidance on advocating for entitlement under the WSIB Chronic Mental Stress Policy when the claim arises from workplace harassment.

It has been an eventful year for Ontario's energy sector. With growing demand, new resource procurements, the release of a highly anticipated expert panel report, a government vision document, two major pieces of legislation, and a wave of new policies, consultations, and regulatory decisions, have brought significant change to energy regulation and policy.