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On September 22, 2022, the first set of amendments from Bill 64 will come into force. Although most amendments will come into force in September 2023, below we highlight significant changes in force this September.

On August 31, 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned a trial decision in First National Financial GP Corporation v. Golden Dragon Ho 10. Inc., unanimously holding that when a contract is silent on an issue, absent contradicting contractual provisions, a mortgagor must provide additional consideration to amend the agreement to receive a right to prepay and discharge a mortgage.

I am honoured and privileged to be serving as the chair of this section for the upcoming year. For those who don’t know me, I am a 2014 call, and a partner at Cassels in Toronto. Thank you to Joanna Wice (Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing) for her incredible leadership as chair last year. I have big shoes to fill!

Following are this week's summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the short week of September 6, 2022. There were only four decisions, two of them short.

Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 29, 2022.

Teachers may be disciplined for conduct before they registered with the Ontario College of Teachers if it impacts their suitability as a teacher.

This article discusses two recent arbitration awards considering the appropriate discipline for an educator when a child in their care wanders off school property unsupervised.

In late 2019, section 18.6 of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangements Act and section 4.2 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act were introduced, requiring all interested parties to a proceeding to act in good faith. The 2019 Amendments do not define “good faith” or provide specific remedies for a breach of it. Rather, the amendments provide the court with unfettered discretion to make any order it considers appropriate when a stakeholder breaches its good faith obligation.

Following are this week's summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 22, 2022.

Two pieces of draft legislation – one to make technical amendments to the Income Tax Act (“ITA”) and Income Tax Regulations (“Regulations”), and one to implement parts of Budget 2022, among other proposals, by amending the ITA and Regulations – have been released. This article, which is Part III of a Three-Part series, will discuss other updates contained in the draft legislation.