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Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for the week of November 9, 2020.

The Supreme Court's recent decision in 1688782 Ontario Inc. v. Maple Leaf Foods defines a supplier's scope of duty of care for pure economic loss and speaks to the nature of the franchise relationship.

In a "New Normal" in the wake of COVID-19 and social distancing requirements, arbitration proceedings have adapted to meet a distanced, technologically plugged-in process. In this article, lawyer, arbitrator and mediator Megan Keenberg breaks down ten key points that are essential to a virtual arbitration protocol.

There were quite a few substantive decisions of the Court of Appeal released this week. Topics covered this week included another round of litigation in the Indian Residential School Settlement, vexatious litigants, the setting aside of an order granting summary judgement in the context of a shareholder’s agreement involving a right of first refusal, limitation periods, family law.

Perhaps one silver lining to the COVID-19 Pandemic has been the accelerated implementation of technologically based tools by both the construction industry and the courts to overcome the hurdles arising from the need to maintain “physical distancing’.

On May 11, 2020, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a sweeping order for Canada’s tax authorities to obtain customer information from Roofmart Ontario Inc. (“Roofmart”) to investigate its customers’ tax compliance.

What is articling like at a municipality right now? Read on to find out, and to hear tips for other articling students also working remotely.