Articles 2025

On April 18, members of the OBA Trusts and Estates Law Section met to discuss practice tips and share their experiences. As usual, participants had a lively discussion on topics such as joint accounts, and the new trust reporting requirements for bare trusts.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of April 17, 2023.

OBA members met in March for the monthly Brown Bag Lunch session. Topics discussed included the current turnaround time for probate applications, and the recent Grattan v Grattan decision in which the court relied on the new substantial compliance provision of the Succession Law Reform Act.

Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of March 27 to 31, 2023. There were only two substantive decisions. One was a commercial leasing matter, and the other was a receivership matter.

This article summarizes an important medical negligence class proceeding decision that addresses the use of circumstantial evidence to support findings of negligence and discusses common, class-wide findings of breach of the standard of care and causation. The Court of Appeal approved of the lower court’s reliance on statistical evidence with respect to rates of infection and agreed that there was a causal link between the class members’ infections and the Defendant’s subpar IPAC practices.

This update features a round-up of the important developments in the Ontario energy sector between January and March (and the first days of April). The author has scoured the regulatory landscape so that you can stay informed and ahead of the curve in this rapidly changing environment.

This article summarizes Curtis v. Medcan Health Management Inc. 2022 ONSC 5176, in which the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that class actions are preferable to ESA claims for employment cases.