COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (January 8 – January 12)

Proceed Studying

In Zafar v Azeem, the mummy’s attraction in opposition to a call that ordered her three-year-old little one to go back to Pakistan, the place the daddy claimed the kid was once habitually resident, was once allowed. She effectively argued procedural unfairness because of the movement pass judgement on’s failure to permit for cross-examinations or a viva voce listening to of contested proof and failure to correctly imagine the kid’s highest pursuits, ordinary place of dwelling, and possibility of significant hurt. The mummy was once additionally a success in atmosphere apart the popularity of the divorce the husband got in Pakistan, which were got unilaterally and with out enough understand.

In Lyng v. Ontario Position Company, Ontario Position unsuccessfully appealed the trial pass judgement on’s resolution to seek out it 75% accountable for the respondent’s slip and fall on its premises. With a purpose to go Lakeshore Side road following a live performance right through which it had rained, the respondent and different concertgoers determined to move down a rainy hill abutting the street after an Ontario Position safety guard had closed the bridge passing over the Side road.

In Espartel Investments Restricted v. Metropolitan Toronto Condo Company No. 993, the Courtroom pushed aside the appellant apartment company’s attraction on a discoverability factor in regards to the overpayment of hydro expenses by way of the respondent lodge. The lodge sued for unjust enrichment after it found out {that a} cost-sharing settlement between the lodge and the rental corp inequitably allotted hydro utilization to the lodge.

In Cuthbert v. Nolis, the Courtroom pushed aside an attraction from a evaluation of a Ultimate Order referring to parenting, indicating that whilst the granting of a proper to a evaluation beneath a last order is unusual, it may be suitable in positive cases. When there’s a evaluation supplied for in a last order, there’s no wish to display a subject material trade in cases.

In Elbassiouni v. Brenn, the Courtroom pushed aside an attraction from a abstract judgment pushing aside a declare referring to deficiencies in a house following final of the acquisition. This was once a Simplified Process subject and the movement pass judgement on excluded transcript proof from cross-examinations as a result of Rule 76.04 does now not allow cross-examinations on affidavits in Simplified Process. The Courtroom agreed that the movement pass judgement on was once proper to exclude the proof.

In Duraisami v. Yaworski, the Courtroom pushed aside an attraction from a abstract judgment on a ensure.

In any case, in Canadian Tire Company, Restricted v. Eaton Apparatus Ltd., the Courtroom upheld the dismissal by way of the movement pass judgement on of an anti-SLAPP movement in opposition to Canadian Tire. The declare by way of Canadian Tire was once for fraud and different intentional torts in opposition to third-party distributors who have been speculated to have falsely asserted entitlement to cost for paintings beneath Canadian Tire’s buyer go back program. The defendants claimed that Canadian Tire was once promoting faulty and threatening equipment now not authorized by way of the Canadian Requirements Affiliation, and that they have been sued by way of Canadian Tire for the aim of preventing them from bringing this to the general public mild. The movement pass judgement on and the Courtroom discovered that Canadian Tire’s declare didn’t goal the defendants’ expression on an issue of public passion.

Wishing everybody a pleasing weekend.

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Desk of Contents

Civil Choices

Cuthbert v. Nolis, 2024 ONCA 21

Key phrases: Circle of relatives Regulation, Parenting Time, Overview, Civil Process, Proof, Paperwork, Admissibility, Rumour, Amending Pleadings, Youngsters’s Regulation Reform Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C. 12, s 29, Circle of relatives Regulation Regulations, O. Reg. 114/99, r 11(3), M. (Ok.A.A.) v. M. (J.M.), 2005 NLCA 64, Sappier v. Francis, 2004 NBCA 70, Fournier v. Fournier, 2020 ONSC 606, Y.M.S. v. R.O.S., 2021 ONSC 6684, Leskun v. Leskun, 2006 SCC 25, Fisher v. Fisher, 2008 ONCA 11, Youngsters and Circle of relatives Services and products v. G.S., 2011 ONSC 1732, Studley v. Studley, 2022 ONCA 810, Davidson v. Davidson, 2021 ONSC 7459, Alajajian v. Alajajian, 2021 ONCA 602, Johanson v. Hinde, 2016 ONCA 430, Palmer v. The Queen, [1980] 1 S.C.R. 759, Hamilton v. Open Window Bakery Ltd., 2004 SCC 9

Zafar v. Azeem, 2024 ONCA 15

Key phrases: Circle of relatives Regulation, Parenting, Relocation, Global Kid Abduction, Overseas Divorces, Civil Process, Procedural Equity, Divorce Act, RSC 1985, c. 3 (second Supp), Youngsters’s Regulation Reform Act, RSO 1990, c. C 12, s. 22, Circle of relatives Regulation Regulations, O. Reg. 114/99, r. 37.2(3), Hague Conference at the Civil Sides of Global Kid Abduction, Can. T.S. 1983 No. 35, Geliedan v Rawdah, 2020 ONCA 254, Ojeikere v Ojeikere, 2018 ONCA 372, Place of job of the Youngsters’s Attorney v Balev, 2018 SCC 16, F v N, 2022 SCC 51, Pollastro v Pollastro (1999), 43 OR (3d) 485 (CA)

Espartel Investments Restricted v. Metropolitan Toronto Condo Company No. 993, 2024 ONCA 18

Key phrases: Contracts, Actual Assets, Condominiums, Price-Sharing Agreements, Restitution, Unjust Enrichment, Defences, Equitable Set-Off, Civil Process, Boundaries Sessions, Discoverability, Boundaries Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sch. B., Van Allen v. Vos, 2014 ONCA 552, 121 O.R. (3d) 72, Grant Thornton LLP v. New Brunswick, 2021 SCC 31, 461 D.L.R. (4th) 613, Zeppa v. Woodbridge Heating & Air-Conditioning Ltd., 2019 ONCA 47, 144 O.R. (3d) 385, Crombie Assets Holdings Restricted v. McColl-Frontenac Inc. (Texaco Canada Restricted), 2017 ONCA 16, 406 D.L.R. (4th) 252

Canadian Tire Company, Restricted v. Eaton Apparatus Ltd., 2024 ONCA 25

Key phrases: Torts, Defamation, Anti-SLAPP, Civil Process, Prices, Courts of Justice Act, RSO 1990, c C 43, s 137.1, Schwartz et al. v Collette, 2021 ONSC 2138, Brad-Jay Investments Restricted v Village Traits Restricted (2006), 218 O.A.C. 315 (C.A.), Algra v Comrie Property, 2023 ONCA 811, Veneruzzo v. Storey, 2018 ONCA 688

Lyng v. Ontario Position Company, 2024 ONCA 23

Key phrases: Torts, Negligence, Occupier’s Legal responsibility, Slip and Fall, Responsibility of Care, Usual of Care, Causation, “However For” Check, Damages, Occupier’s Legal responsibility Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.2, s. 3, Rodaro v. Royal Financial institution of Canada (2002), 59 O.R. (3d) 74 (C.A.), Moore v. Candy, 2017 ONCA 182, Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, Waldick v. Malcolm, [1991] 2 S.C.R. 456, Malcolm v. B.C. Transit (1988), 32 B.C.L.R. (second) 317 (C.A.), Winters v. Haldimand (County), 2015 ONCA 98, Athey v. Leonati, [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458, Clements v. Clements, 2012 SCC 32, Ault v. Canada (Legal professional Basic), 2011 ONCA 147, Lazare v. Harvey, 2008 ONCA 171, Woelk  v. Halvorson, [1980] 2 S.C.R. 430, S.M. c. Sternthal Katznelson Montigny, 2021 QCCA 673, Naylor Crew Inc. v. Ellis-Don Building Ltd., 2001 SCC 58

Elbassiouni v. Brenn, 2024 ONCA 28

Key phrases: Contracts, Actual Assets, Agreements of Acquire and Sale of Land, Civil Process, Simplified Process, Abstract Judgement, Proof, Admissibility, Rules of Civil Process, rr. 39.02, 76.04

Duraisami v. Yaworski, 2024 ONCA 27

Key phrases: Breach of Contract, Civil Process, Simplified Process, Abstract Judgment, Regulations of Civil Process, r. 76, Blended Air Mechanical Services and products Inc. v. Flesch, 2011 ONCA 764, Manthandi v. ASCO Production, 2020 ONCA 485, Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53

Quick Civil Choices

Jakubov v. Solar Lifestyles Assurance Corporate of Canada, 2024 ONCA 16

Key phrases: Civil Process, Abstract Judgment, Limitation Sessions, Discoverability, Boundaries Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Winmill v. Woodstock (Police Services and products Board), 2017 ONCA 962

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CIVIL DECISIONS

Cuthbert v. Nolis, 2024 ONCA 21

[Brown, George and Monahan JJ.A.]

Recommend:

G. Joseph and J. McArthur, for the appellant

D. E. (T.) Cuthbert, appearing in particular person

Key phrases: Circle of relatives Regulation, Parenting Time, Overview, Civil Process, Proof, Paperwork, Admissibility, Rumour, Amending Pleadings, Youngsters’s Regulation Reform Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C. 12, s 29, Circle of relatives Regulation Regulations, O. Reg. 114/99, r 11(3), M. (Ok.A.A.) v. M. (J.M.), 2005 NLCA 64, Sappier v. Francis, 2004 NBCA 70, Fournier v. Fournier, 2020 ONSC 606, Y.M.S. v. R.O.S., 2021 ONSC 6684, Leskun v. Leskun, 2006 SCC 25, Fisher v. Fisher, 2008 ONCA 11, Youngsters and Circle of relatives Services and products v. G.S., 2011 ONSC 1732, Studley v. Studley, 2022 ONCA 810, Davidson v. Davidson, 2021 ONSC 7459, Alajajian v. Alajajian, 2021 ONCA 602, Johanson v. Hinde, 2016 ONCA 430, Palmer v. The Queen, [1980] 1 S.C.R. 759, Hamilton v. Open Window Bakery Ltd., 2004 SCC 9

info:

The appellant mom and respondent father started cohabiting in 2010 and separated in 2014. They by no means married however had two kids: a 12-year-old son, G, and a 10-year-old daughter, Ok. Following separation, the appellant acted because the custodial mother or father. The respondent had parenting time with the youngsters on Wednesday evenings and each different weekend. He by no means authorised this parenting association as truthful and started an software. He additionally introduced 3 motions in search of greater parenting time, all 3 of which have been unsuccessful.

On August 1, 2018, after a ten-day trial, Goldstein J. awarded joint custody and ordered that the respondent proceed to have parenting time on Wednesday evenings and each different weekend (the “2018 order”). On the other hand, Goldstein J. additionally held that the respondent “will have to, steadily, find a way to extend get entry to in an effort to ultimately achieving 50/50”.

On August 6, 2019, the respondent introduced a movement to extend his parenting time on a step-up foundation to an equivalent “2/2/5/5” agenda. On Might 3, 2022, the trial pass judgement on present in favour of the respondent and awarded him steadily expanding parenting time, with the youngsters in the long run living with every mother or father on a “2/2/5/5” agenda.

problems:

1. Did the trial pass judgement on err by way of converting a last order when there was once no subject material trade in cases?
2. Did the trial pass judgement on err by way of admitting and depending on rumour proof?
3. Did the trial pass judgement on err by way of allowing the respondent to amend his pleadings at trial?
4. Did the trial pass judgement on err by way of failing to imagine the most productive pursuits of the youngsters?
5. Must the Courtroom grant the appellant go away to confess contemporary proof with regards to what has passed off right through the respondents parenting time with the youngsters?
6. Did the trial pass judgement on err in awarding prices?

keeping:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No.

The 2018 order – regardless of being styled a last order – expressly accepted the respondent to use for a metamorphosis to the parenting agenda. It on no account required him to show a subject material trade in cases.

Whilst a evaluation time period in a last parenting time order is slightly uncommon, it’s effectively established that courts have jurisdiction to impose them: M. (Ok.A.A.) at paras 25-36. A evaluation time period beneath a parenting time provision in a Ultimate Order creates a unprecedented and slender exception to the standard requirement {that a} subject material trade in cases be proven to alter a parenting order: Y.M.S. at para 70.

Courts have known that it’s most often in the most productive pursuits of youngsters to supply them “with balance of their lives following circle of relatives breakdown” by way of incorporating “some sense of finality into child-care preparations” M. (Ok.A.A.), at para. 26. Because of this, evaluation phrases are seldom ordered and should be 1) justified by way of authentic and subject material uncertainty on the time the unique order is made, and a pair of) tightly delimited with admire to the problem or problems that might be discipline to check: Leskun, at paras. 37-39. A court-ordered evaluation “gets rid of the desire for an aggrieved mother or father to ‘guesstimate’ when issues have reached the purpose that she or he should go back the subject to court docket”: M. (Ok.A.A.), at para. 26. The Courtroom due to this fact established that during some cases, akin to this example, a evaluation time period could also be suitable however will have to be restricted to scenarios the place the events’, or kids’s, cases have been unsure on the time the unique order was once made. On the time of the 2018 order it was once unclear what was responsible for G’s nervousness, nor was once the level of it effectively understood. The Courtroom famous that whilst the truth a kid is ageing won’t ever, by itself, quantity to a subject material trade in cases, when the 2018 order was once made Goldstein J. discovered that “[G’s] nervousness turns out to have stepped forward with age” which, within the Courtroom’s view, made a evaluation time period cheap.

The trial pass judgement on’s discovering was once rooted in and amply supported by way of the truth that G’s nervousness had “stepped forward sufficiently” from 2018 till the order beneath attraction, and that it was once “no worse when he’s with [the respondent] than with [the appellant]”. The trial pass judgement on sparsely reviewed proof with regards to G’s nervousness from more than one resources, together with G’s counsellor, G’s schoolteachers, and the s. 112 document from the Place of job of the Youngsters’s Attorney (“OCL”). The Courtroom concluded that his factual findings have been cheap and entitled to deference.

2. No.

The appellant’s rumour grievance was once on the subject of the trial pass judgement on’s resolution to confess a letter from Dr. Noble, a psychologist who had met with G, which expressed her view that G had now not required long-term counselling or extra critical remedy for his nervousness. With the exception of the truth that the appellant cross-examined the respondent at the content material of this letter, the Courtroom noticed that the appellant had now not objected to its admission, and that it was once referenced by way of the OCL clinician in her document. The Courtroom famous that there was once a foundation upon which the trial pass judgement on will have assessed the extent of G’s nervousness, together with the respondent’s proof, the absence of a proper prognosis, and the indication that G was once doing effectively at school.

3. No.

Because it had now not given upward push to any prejudice, or differently drawback the appellant, the trial pass judgement on had now not erred by way of allowing the respondent to amend his pleadings at trial. The appellant had considerable alternative to offer her case and reply to the respondent’s place. Additionally, it’s well-established that the check for go away to amend beneath r. 11(3) of the Circle of relatives Regulation Rule strongly favours allowing amendments aside from within the clearest of circumstances: Studley, at para. 15; Davidson at para. 22. The trial pass judgement on somewhat concluded that this was once now not this type of case, and his resolution was once entitled to deference: Studley, at para. 15.

4. No.

The most efficient passion of the youngsters is the one related attention when assessing a kid’s place of dwelling, decision-making authority, and parenting time. The trial pass judgement on cited the acceptable provisions of the Youngsters’s Regulation Reform Act and sparsely regarded as the related elements. A tribulation pass judgement on’s factual findings are entitled to really extensive deference, particularly in circle of relatives regulation circumstances, the place the court docket can intervene “handiest the place the truth similar sides of the [trial] pass judgement on’s resolution … [exceed] a beneficiant ambit inside of which cheap confrontation is imaginable and is evidently flawed”: Alajajian at para. 4.

The contemporary proof consisted basically of correspondence with regards to incidents right through the respondent’s parenting time and the ensuing have an effect on at the kids’s psychological and bodily well being. In keeping with the appellant, the contemporary proof at once handled the trial pass judgement on’s resolution to forget about the voice of the youngsters and the perspectives of the OCL and did not imagine the result of G’s psychological well being evaluation.

The appellant’s contemporary proof movement was once pushed aside. Not one of the proof she sought to confess met the standards in Palmer v. The Queen at p. 775. Fairly, the proof was once necessarily an extension of the proof positioned by way of the appellant earlier than each Goldstein J. and the trial pass judgement on.

5. No.

An award of prices by way of a tribulation pass judgement on is an workout in discretion and can handiest be put aside when the trial pass judgement on has made an error in theory or if the prices award is evidently flawed: Hamilton at para. 27. Whilst the appellant was once granted go away to attraction the trial pass judgement on’s prices award, it was once cheap and owed deference.

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Zafar v. Azeem, 2024 ONCA 15

[Fairburn A.C.J.O., van Rensburg and Zarnett JJ.A.]

Recommend:

M. J. Stangarone and T. Guo, for the appellant

B. Olsen, N. Besner and V. Floca-Maxim, for the respondent

Key phrases: Circle of relatives Regulation, Parenting, Relocation, Global Kid Abduction, Overseas Divorces, Civil Process, Procedural Equity, Divorce Act, RSC 1985, c. 3 (second Supp), Youngsters’s Regulation Reform Act, RSO 1990, c. C 12, s. 22, Circle of relatives Regulation Regulations, O. Reg. 114/99, r. 37.2(3), Hague Conference at the Civil Sides of Global Kid Abduction, Can. T.S. 1983 No. 35, Geliedan v Rawdah, 2020 ONCA 254, Ojeikere v Ojeikere, 2018 ONCA 372, Place of job of the Youngsters’s Attorney v Balev, 2018 SCC 16, F v N, 2022 SCC 51, Pollastro v Pollastro (1999), 43 OR (3d) 485 (CA)

info:

The appellant (the “mom”) had implemented for a declaration that the events’ three-year-old little one, “A”, was once habitually resident in Ontario, in search of sole decision-making accountability and number one residency for A. The respondent (the “father”) had introduced an pressing movement, as he had already commenced an motion for similar reduction set to be heard in Pakistan in six weeks. He asked the Awesome Courtroom to disregard the mummy’s software, arguing that the kid was once habitually resident in Lahore, Pakistan, and likewise sought an order to dispense with the mummy’s consent for the kid’s shuttle to Pakistan.

In reaction, the mummy requested the Ontario court docket to retain jurisdiction and imagine the daddy’s divorce in Pakistan as invalid. On the other hand, the daddy succeeded in all respects. The kid was once ordered to go back to Pakistan inside of 14 days of the verdict, without or with the mummy’s consent, according to affidavit proof. The movement pass judgement on concluded that the divorce got in Pakistan was once legitimate, pushed aside the mummy’s software, and located that A was once habitually resident in Pakistan, ordering her go back to that jurisdiction. If the kid was once now not returned, the mummy’s consent to the kid’s shuttle can be disbursed with.

problems:

1. Was once the abstract procedure depending handiest on affidavit proof the place there was once important warfare between the events’ variations of occasions procedurally unfair?
2. Was once s. 22 of the Youngsters’s Regulation Reform Act improperly implemented to decide the kid’s ordinary place of dwelling?
3. Was once s. 23 of the CLRA improperly implemented when the movement pass judgement on decided that no critical hurt would come to the kid if she was once returned to Pakistan?
4. Did the movement pass judgement on err in spotting the divorce in Pakistan according to the proof supplied?

keeping:

Enchantment allowed.

reasoning:

1. Sure.

The Courtroom agreed with the appellant mom’s arguement that she was once denied procedural equity within the case’s dealing with, claiming the movement pass judgement on erred in addressing whether or not the kid, A, was once habitually resident in Ontario or Pakistan and whether or not returning to Pakistan would pose a major hurt possibility. The pass judgement on additionally omitted to imagine whether or not ordering A’s go back to Pakistan was once in her highest pursuits. The mummy contended that because of conflicting affidavit proof, those problems will have to now not had been determined with out right kind time for preparation, together with cross-examination or viva voce testimony. The scheduling pass judgement on had authorised the daddy’s urgency claims, resulting in an expedited listening to with out cross-examinations. This method resulted in unresolved conflicts in key proof relating to ordinary place of dwelling and critical hurt. Consequently, the mummy was once denied procedural equity and herbal justice in figuring out A’s ordinary place of dwelling, the chance of significant hurt, and the verdict to reserve A’s go back to Pakistan with out making an allowance for her highest pursuits, particularly as Canada does now not acknowledge Pakistan beneath the Hague Conference.

2. Sure.

The pass judgement on recognized “ordinary place of dwelling” as an important for deciding the kid’s jurisdiction beneath the CLRA. The oldsters disagreed at the little one’s ordinary place of dwelling: the daddy claimed A lived together with her mom in Pakistan together with his consent once they agreed to split, whilst the mummy insisted the go back and forth to Pakistan was once transient. The movement pass judgement on, with out making credibility findings, concluded A was once habitually resident in Pakistan, according to conflicting affidavit proof. The mummy’s proof steered that A’s keep in Pakistan was once extended because of the daddy now not facilitating her go back, casting the go back to Canada in a special mild, now not as “self lend a hand” however as a part of the unique plan. This example referred to as for a deeper exam of parental intent in figuring out ordinary place of dwelling, as a kid’s global at A’s age revolves round their number one caregiver, on this case, the mummy. With out trying out the mummy’s proof, the movement pass judgement on was once now not able to appropriately decide ordinary place of dwelling, leaving open the likelihood that A’s ordinary place of dwelling may in truth be Ontario and now not Pakistan.

3. Sure.

The Courtroom mentioned that, despite the fact that the movement pass judgement on was once proper in figuring out Pakistan as A’s ordinary place of dwelling, the allegations of significant hurt to the mummy required a extra thorough evidentiary listening to earlier than concluding that there was once no critical possibility of damage to A if returned. The mummy alleged critical hurt if A was once returned to Pakistan, mentioning cases of bodily and emotional violence from the daddy. Those allegations incorporated bodily attacks right through and after being pregnant, loss of life threats, and monetary forget. The movement pass judgement on, then again, pushed aside those as inappropriate to A’s possibility of significant hurt, which was once an error as such violence against a mother or father can create critical hurt to a kid. Beneath the Divorce Act and CLRA, circle of relatives violence should be regarded as when assessing a kid’s highest pursuits. The daddy’s argument that the court docket don’t need to fear itself with home violence allegations was once opposite to this requirement. A right kind evidentiary listening to was once had to assessment those allegations and imagine their have an effect on on A’s highest pursuits. Despite the fact that A was once deemed habitually resident in Pakistan, the court docket nonetheless had to imagine what order was once in her highest pursuits, akin to most likely closing in Ontario whilst parenting court cases persevered in Pakistan. This failure to imagine A’s highest pursuits according to a completely evolved evidentiary file was once a vital oversight.

4. Sure.

The mummy argued that she was once now not habitually resident in Pakistan for a yr earlier than the divorce court cases however was once briefly in Pakistan, making her a ordinary resident of Ontario. Subsequently, the Pakistan divorce may handiest be known beneath s. 22(3) of the Divorce Act, according to conflicts of rules and not unusual regulation rules. She claimed the divorce was once given with out enough understand and was once a unilateral “naked talaq” by way of the daddy, which will have to now not be known for public coverage causes. The movement pass judgement on, regardless of requiring proof concerning the criminal procedure in Pakistan, authorised problematic proof and will have to now not have determined with out giving the mummy a possibility to expand the file. The pass judgement on’s conclusion that the mummy was once habitually resident in Pakistan for a yr previous the divorce conflicted with the mummy’s declare that her prolonged keep was once because of the daddy combating her go back. Given the contradictory proof, the movement pass judgement on had to justify rejecting the mummy’s model.

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Espartel Investments Restricted v. Metropolitan Toronto Condo Company No. 993, 2024 ONCA 18

[Gillese, Trotter and Coroza JJ.A.]

Recommend:

J.H. Nasseri and G. Vance, for the appellant

J. Kulathungam and N. Panamaldeniya, for the respondent

Key phrases: Contracts, Actual Assets, Condominiums, Price-Sharing Agreements, Restitution, Unjust Enrichment, Defences, Equitable Set-Off, Civil Process, Boundaries Sessions, Discoverability, Boundaries Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sch. B., Van Allen v. Vos, 2014 ONCA 552, 121 O.R. (3d) 72, Grant Thornton LLP v. New Brunswick, 2021 SCC 31, 461 D.L.R. (4th) 613, Zeppa v. Woodbridge Heating & Air-Conditioning Ltd., 2019 ONCA 47, 144 O.R. (3d) 385, Crombie Assets Holdings Restricted v. McColl-Frontenac Inc. (Texaco Canada Restricted), 2017 ONCA 16, 406 D.L.R. (4th) 252.

info:

Since 1991, the events co-occupying a blended business and home advanced in Toronto have operated beneath a “Reciprocal Settlement,” beneath which they shared monetary accountability for utilities within the advanced. The appellant, a apartment company, paid the hydro invoice for all the advanced after which despatched the respondent, a lodge, an annual bill for its percentage of the software prices.

Sadly, the system was once unsuitable with admire to its calculation of the respondent’s percentage of the electrical energy invoice, resulting in the respondent considerably overpaying for electrical energy. Between 2006 and 2015, the respondent overpaid by way of no less than $730,000.

In 2015, the respondent become involved over the amount of cash it was once paying for electrical energy. The appellant retained an engineering marketing consultant to check the invoices and supply recommendation on electrical energy prices. On February 14, 2017, the marketing consultant issued a document. The document recognized the mistakes within the formulation used within the bill. This document gave the events precise wisdom of the mistakes for the primary time.

On November 21, 2018, the respondent sued the appellant for unjust enrichment to get well its overpayments. The appellant defended basically at the foundation that the limitation duration had handed, arguing that the respondent will have to have found out the mistakes within the invoices greater than two years previous to the graduation of the motion. The appellant argued that, on the very newest, the mistakes become somewhat discoverable in 2015, when the then-new basic supervisor felt that the invoices have been charging for “outrageously prime” electrical energy expenses.

The trial pass judgement on discovered that the respondent didn’t have precise wisdom of the mistakes till 2017 and held that it shouldn’t have found out the mistakes previous in the course of the workout of cheap due diligence.

problems:

1. Did the trial pass judgement on err in her discoverability research, by way of erroneously discovering that the mistakes weren’t glaring at the face of the invoices?
2. Did the trial pass judgement on err in regulation in her research of the respondent’s due diligence?
3. Did the trial pass judgement on impermissibly conflate precise and positive wisdom?
4. Did the trial pass judgement on err in her choice of equitable set-off?

keeping:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No.

The truth that mistakes are able to being found out does now not essentially get started the working of the constraints clock. The trial pass judgement on was once required to decide when a cheap particular person with the respondent’s skills and in its cases must have found out the issues within the invoices. It’s cheap discoverability − slightly than the mere chance of discovery − that triggers the limitation duration beneath s. 5(1)(b) of the Boundaries Act, 2002.

The appellant argued that the trial pass judgement on seemed to have misstated the character of the mistakes at the spreadsheets in portions of her judgment. This submission seemed to relaxation at the premise that if the trial pass judgement on erred in a single observation of reality, then her conclusion that the mistakes weren’t obvious at the face of the bill was once inherently suspect. There is not any recognized authority for this type of proposition, and the appellant supplied none. In any tournament, it was once transparent from her causes that the trial pass judgement on was once depending at the description of the mistakes from the marketing consultant’s document, which was once the root of an agreed observation of reality. The truth that the trial pass judgement on could have moderately misstated the mistakes in her judgment was once of no second.

2. No.

The trial pass judgement on misstated the regulation on cheap discoverability. The low evidentiary usual referenced by way of the Courtroom in Morrison associated with a movement so as to add a defendant to an motion. Morrison didn’t purport to set the whole usual to be met at trial. The usual of evidence at trial stays the steadiness of possibilities. The trial pass judgement on thus erred to the level she implied differently.

On the other hand, one of these error was once innocuous, because it was once now not subject material. Right away after the impugned observation of regulation, the trial pass judgement on discovered that there was once “overwhelming proof of an affordable clarification and due diligence by way of the plaintiff.”

The appellant argued that the suspicion in 2015, of the lodge’s then-new supervisor getting concerned by way of the prime electrical energy expenses will have to have weighed closely within the evaluation of the respondent’s due diligence. On the other hand, the truth that the respondent become extra serious about its electrical energy invoice in 2015 does now not diminish the appellant’s accountability for its unsuitable calculations nor did it detract from the trial pass judgement on’s choice that the respondent acted with due diligence in its evaluation of the invoices.

3. No.

The trial pass judgement on obviously separated the ideas of exact wisdom, positive wisdom, and cheap discoverability right through her judgment. In summing-up her barriers research, the trial pass judgement on indexed twenty-one explanation why she concluded that the declare was once neither found out nor somewhat discoverable previous to 2017. The appellant took factor with a few of these causes at the foundation that they similar handiest to the events’ precise wisdom. However this was once no error – the record explicitly associated with precise wisdom and cheap discoverability. A number of of the twenty-one causes relate handiest to the target usual of cheap discoverability, and now not precise wisdom.

4. No.

The appellant challenged the trial pass judgement on’s discovering at the “loss of juristic reason why” part of the unjust enrichment check and her conclusion on equitable set-off. On the other hand, suggest didn’t press those submissions in oral argument, and so they have been discovered to haven’t any advantage. There was once no foundation to interfere with the trial pass judgement on’s choice on equitable set-off.

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Canadian Tire Company, Restricted v. Eaton Apparatus Ltd., 2024 ONCA 25

[Hourigan, Trotter and Copeland JJ.A.]

Recommend:

T. D. Marshall and M. Jarrett, for the appellants

C. Pendrith and J. Kuredjian, for the respondent

Key phrases: Torts, Defamation, Anti-SLAPP, Civil Process, Prices, Courts of Justice Act, RSO 1990, c C 43, s 137.1, Schwartz et al. v Collette, 2021 ONSC 2138, Brad-Jay Investments Restricted v Village Traits Restricted (2006), 218 O.A.C. 315 (C.A.), Algra v Comrie Property, 2023 ONCA 811, Veneruzzo v. Storey, 2018 ONCA 688

info:

This attraction involved a Anti-SLAPP movement by way of a number of defendants to disregard an motion commenced by way of Canadian Tire Company Restricted (“Canadian Tire”). Canadian Tire claimed in opposition to the Milburn appellants for damages for, amongst different issues, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, misappropriation and conversion, figuring out receipt, and figuring out help. It was once alleged that the Milburn appellants engaged in a fraudulent scheme by way of falsely saying an entitlement to and receiving cost for paintings beneath Canadian Tire’s buyer go back program when that paintings was once now not carried out. Canadian Tire pleaded that the Milburn appellants made fraudulent transfers of price range that have been misappropriated from Canadian Tire to the Robertson appellants.

The appellants submitted that on Might 1, 2018, Mr. Milburn met with Canadian Tire and complained of privateness regulation violations by way of Canadian Tire and about Canadian Tire allegedly promoting faulty and threatening equipment that weren’t authorized by way of the Canadian Requirements Affiliation. Canadian Tire denied those allegations. The appellants contended that once this assembly, Canadian Tire ordered the termination of Eaton Apparatus Ltd.’s contract beneath the client go back program.

At the movement, it was once the Milburn appellants’ place that Canadian Tire’s motion was once initiated to additional an oblique, collateral, or unsuitable function in order that they have been obstructed from going public or notifying related government in their wisdom of Canadian Tire’s sale of allegedly faulty portions and privateness regulation violations. The Robertson appellants made equivalent submissions and argued that Canadian Tire’s motion was once a SLAPP continuing in opposition to them by way of extension as a result of they’d been incorporated within the lawsuit as leverage for use in opposition to the Milburn appellants.

The movement was once limited to a choice of whether or not the shifting events had happy the brink requirement of revealing on a steadiness of possibilities that the motion arose from an expression made by way of the shifting events that associated with an issue of public passion. The movement pass judgement on dominated that the appellants had now not discharged the brink onus beneath s. 137.1 of the Courts of Justice Act and pushed aside the Anti-SLAPP movement. He discovered that the declare as pleaded by way of Canadian Tire and the underlying info are “now not premised or grounded on any expressions made by way of the Milburn Defendants or every other defendant.”

problems:

1. Did the movement pass judgement on err find that the appellants had now not met their onus of setting up that Canadian Tire’s motion arose from an expression made by way of any of the appellants?
2. Did the movement pass judgement on err find that Canadian Tire’s reason in starting up its motion was once inappropriate at the choice of the brink factor and that he was once prohibited from making an allowance for the standards used to decide whether or not an motion will have to be pushed aside beneath s. 137.1?
3. Did the movement pass judgement on err in awarding prices in opposition to the appellants?

keeping:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No.

The movement pass judgement on was once proper find that Canadian Tire’s fraud declare was once neither grounded in nor concentrated on any expression made by way of the appellants. The Courtroom agreed that there was once not anything within the file that supported the statement {that a} yr after the appellants made their allegations in opposition to Canadian Tire, it determined to start a fraud declare to silence them.

2. No.

The plaintiff’s motivation in starting up an motion was once now not a related issue on the first degree of the SLAPP research, nor have been the standards that have been utilized in figuring out whether or not an motion will have to be pushed aside. As a substitute, the inquiry was once limited beneath the CJA to the choice of whether or not the shifting occasion had proven on a steadiness of possibilities that the motion arose from an expression made by way of it that associated with an issue of public passion.

SLAPP motions have been meant to be a slightly abstract process, designed to weed out unmeritorious movements that concentrate on expressions on issues of public passion. On the other hand, they’ve confirmed to be an unwieldly, dear, and time-consuming treatment. The Courtroom declined to give a contribution additional to that downside by way of increasing the brink check to incorporate an investigation of a plaintiff’s reason in starting up litigation and attention of things that may observe had the movement handed the brink degree.

3. Go away to attraction prices was once denied.

The appellants required go away to attraction the movement pass judgement on’s prices award. Go away to attraction a prices order is probably not granted aside from in obtrusive circumstances the place the occasion in search of go away convinces the court docket there are “robust grounds upon which the appellate court docket may in finding that the pass judgement on erred in exercising his discretion”. This check was once designed to impose a prime threshold as a result of appellate courts acknowledge that solving prices is very discretionary and that trial and movement judges are highest located to grasp the dynamics of a case and to render a prices resolution this is simply and reflective of what in fact came about at the flooring.

The movement pass judgement on exercised his discretion in response to fresh authority from the Courtroom at the factor of prices within the context of a SLAPP movement. There was once no foundation to intervene with that call. Go away to attraction the prices award was once denied.

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Lyng v. Ontario Position Company, 2024 ONCA 23

[van Rensburg, Nordheimer and George JJ.A.]

Recommend:

M. Fail to remember and E. Murtha, for the appellant

J.A. Scarfone and J. M. Sazio, for the respondent

Key phrases: Torts, Negligence, Occupier’s Legal responsibility, Slip and Fall, Responsibility of Care, Usual of Care, Causation, “However For” Check, Damages, Occupier’s Legal responsibility Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.2, s. 3, Rodaro v. Royal Financial institution of Canada (2002), 59 O.R. (3d) 74 (C.A.), Moore v. Candy, 2017 ONCA 182, Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, Waldick v. Malcolm, [1991] 2 S.C.R. 456, Malcolm v. B.C. Transit (1988), 32 B.C.L.R. (second) 317 (C.A.), Winters v. Haldimand (County), 2015 ONCA 98, Athey v. Leonati, [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458, Clements v. Clements, 2012 SCC 32, Ault v. Canada (Legal professional Basic), 2011 ONCA 147, Lazare v. Harvey, 2008 ONCA 171, Woelk  v. Halvorson, [1980] 2 S.C.R. 430, S.M. c. Sternthal Katznelson Montigny, 2021 QCCA 673, Naylor Crew Inc. v. Ellis-Don Building Ltd., 2001 SCC 58

info:

The appellant, Ontario Position Company (“Ontario Position”), appealed from the trial pass judgement on’s resolution to award the respondent damages for accidents sustained whilst on its premises.

On July 14, 2016, the respondent, age 21 on the time, attended a live performance at Ontario Position together with his buddy. It rained closely that day. Following the live performance the respondent, his buddy, and different concertgoers exited the primary gates and proceeded to a pedestrian bridge that leads over Lake Shore Blvd. to the Exhibition GO station. This bridge was once the quickest and maximum direct path to that location. Upon arrival on the bridge, the respondent discovered that it was once closed. Two safety guards have been blockading access. Together with others, the respondent and his buddy proceeded down a hill subsequent to the bridge. There have been no barricades or warnings proscribing get entry to to the hill. The respondent’s buddy, who testified at trial, mentioned that he went down the hill first, that the hill was once rainy and slippery, and that he “skidded down” with out falling. The respondent, who adopted his buddy, fell and sustained a major knee harm. A surgical restore was once required. The respondent had ate up alcohol, was once dressed in flip-flops, and testified that he had slipped as he neared the ground of the hill.

The trial pass judgement on discovered that Ontario Position was once responsible for the respondent’s accidents beneath s. 3 of the Occupiers’ Legal responsibility Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.2 (the “Act”). In arriving at that conclusion, he made a number of findings of reality, together with that 1) Ontario Position blocked access to the bridge, 2) it had rained, the grass was once rainy, and the hill was once due to this fact a danger, 3) Ontario Position was once conscious that the hill was once a danger, 4) Ontario Position will have, however didn’t, warn folks of the chance or position boundaries to stop access to the hill, and 5) the respondent didn’t slip at the rainy hill, however slightly jumped and tore his ACL when his left leg landed at the asphalt street on the backside of the hill. The trial pass judgement on discovered the respondent to be contributorily negligent and apportioned legal responsibility accordingly: 75 in line with cent to Ontario Position, and 25 in line with cent to the respondent. Ontario Position appealed.

problems:

1. Did the trial pass judgement on err by way of making an allowance for a principle of legal responsibility outdoor of the pleadings and presentation of the case?
2. Did the trial pass judgement on err in his causation research?
3. Did the trial pass judgement on err find that Ontario Position breached its accountability beneath s. 3 of the Act at the foundation that rainy grass isn’t an bizarre threat?
4. Did the trial pass judgement on err in failing to seek out that the respondent was once the writer of his personal misfortune?
5. Did the trial pass judgement on err by way of awarding damages for lack of aggressive merit?

keeping:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No.

The respondent’s principle of negligence was once transparent right through, which was once, within the cases (i.e., rain, low visibility, and pedestrian bridge closure), Ontario Position had a duty to take steps to stop buyers from traversing a rainy, slippery slope. The trial pass judgement on rejected the respondent’s proof that his fall and the ensuing knee harm have been led to by way of him slipping as he descended that rainy hill. The speculation of legal responsibility was once now not, because the appellant alleged, raised for the primary time within the trial pass judgement on’s causes for judgment. It was once raised within the pleadings, addressed in each the written and oral arguments made by way of suggest at trial, and canvassed broadly right through cross-examination of the respondent. The observation of declare additionally made the idea of the case transparent. The speculation was once examined broadly by way of the appellant right through the trial.  There was once no procedural unfairness.

2. No.

Ontario Position didn’t establish any error that may warrant appellate intervention. The trial pass judgement on appropriately set out and implemented the acceptable criminal rules. The problem of causation is a factual discovering which will have to now not be interfered with absent palpable and overriding error. Whilst attributing fault to the respondent and thus discovering that he was once contributorily negligent, the trial pass judgement on discovered that Ontario Position’s negligent acts activate a “teach of occasions” that positioned the respondent on the backside of a rainy, hazardous, slippery hill – a danger recognized to Ontario Position and which “will have been simply averted”. There was once no error.

3. No.

Phase 3 of the Act supplies that: “An occupier of premises owes an obligation to take such care as in the entire cases of the case is cheap to look that individuals coming into at the premises, and the valuables introduced at the premises by way of the ones people are somewhat secure whilst at the premises.” Ontario Position appropriately identified that occupiers aren’t required to take unrealistic or impractical precautions in opposition to recognized dangers, nor are they required to give protection to in opposition to each imaginable threat. The usual isn’t perfection.

The trial pass judgement on, then again, cited the main authority from the Ideally suited Courtroom – Waldick – noting that “[a]s indicated in Waldick, the obligation of cheap care does now not trade [but] the criteria, that are related to an evaluation of what constitutes cheap care, will essentially be very explicit to every reality state of affairs”. The trial pass judgement on then proceeded to completely cope with the criteria provide right here and defined why, within the cases of the case, Ontario Position was once liable. The trial pass judgement on did what s. 3 directed him to do – he sparsely regarded as what would had been cheap within the cases. The trial pass judgement on approached the query as required by way of s. 3 and by way of Waldick.

4. No.

The trial pass judgement on discovered that each Ontario Position and the respondent have been negligent. There was once not anything inconsistent concerning the two findings. “However for” causation calls for handiest {that a} defendant’s negligent behavior be a essential explanation for the harm, now not the only real reason. There have been two negligent reasons of the respondent’s harm with the trial pass judgement on apportioning legal responsibility accordingly. The usual for appellate interference with a tribulation pass judgement on’s apportionment of legal responsibility is an exacting one.  As Ontario Position didn’t establish any demonstrable error within the trial pass judgement on’s appreciation of the info, or in his software of the related criminal rules, the prime threshold was once now not met.

5. No.

An award of damages for lack of aggressive merit is supposed to compensate a plaintiff for an element of long term source of revenue loss. A plaintiff is entitled to damages for lack of aggressive merit if they are able to end up a considerable possibility of lack of source of revenue at some point. The usual for appellate interference with a damages award is laborious. Ontario Position had to identify that the trial pass judgement on 1) made an error of theory or regulation; 2) misapprehended the proof; 3) erred find there to be proof on which to base his conclusion; 4) did not imagine related elements, or regarded as inappropriate elements; or 5) made a palpably fallacious or wholly inaccurate evaluation of damages.

The query was once whether or not it was once open to the trial pass judgement on to conclude, from that proof, that there was once an actual and really extensive possibility of a long term lack of aggressive merit. The query boiled all the way down to what he may somewhat take from the proof supplied by way of the respondent’s treating orthopaedic surgeon. The trial pass judgement on’s apprehension of the proof in its totality was once cheap and entitled to deference. The trial pass judgement on appropriately set out the regulation, noting that the respondent wanted handiest end up that there was once an actual probability of a long term lack of aggressive merit, and he relatively implemented the related rules to the info as he discovered them.

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Elbassiouni v. Brenn, 2024 ONCA 28

[Hourigan, Trotter and Copeland JJ.A]

Recommend:

S. Suleman, for the appellants

M. M. Fahmy, for the respondents

Key phrases: Contracts, Actual Assets, Agreements of Acquire and Sale of Land, Civil Process, Simplified Process, Abstract Judgement, Proof, Admissibility, Rules of Civil Process, rr. 39.02, 76.04

info:

The appellants attraction from an order granting a movement for abstract judgment coming up from a dispute over the acquisition and sale of a residential assets. The appellants (who have been the customers) alleged that the respondent/seller breached warranties within the Settlement of Acquire and Sale (“APS”). After the transaction closed, the appellants alleged deficiencies within the facilities that have been the subject-matter of the warranties, and likewise that the new water heater and propane tank have been rented versus owned apparatus. The movement pass judgement on concluded that there was once no authentic factor for trial. The movement pass judgement on granted abstract judgment in favour of the respondent.

problems:

1. Did the movement pass judgement on err find that this was once an acceptable case for abstract judgment?
2. Did the movement pass judgement on behavior the abstract judgment movement unfairly?

keeping:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No.

The Courtroom held that this was once an acceptable case for abstract judgment. The case concerned an easy actual property transaction. In the case of legal responsibility, it concerned an interpretation of warranties that have been drafted in a fashion very beneficial to the respondent. The movement pass judgement on discovered there was once not anything to contradict the respondent’s statement of her authentic trust. The Courtroom held that at the admissible proof earlier than the movement pass judgement on, it was once open to the movement pass judgement on to achieve those conclusions.

2. No.

Main as much as the abstract judgment movement, some of the appellants and the respondent have been tested by way of opposing suggest. The appellant’s exam was once finished; then again, the exam of the respondent was once now not, and an extra date was once scheduled. The respondent’s exam then again was once by no means resumed. Upon reviewing the transcripts of the examinations, the movement pass judgement on concluded that they have been inadmissible beneath r. 76.04 beneath the Simplified Process, which prohibits cross-examinations on affidavits. The movement pass judgement on rejected the characterization of the examinations on this case as examinations for discovery. He discovered that they have been cross-examinations of deponents on their affidavits beneath r. 39.02. The Courtroom discovered no error within the movement pass judgement on’s characterizations of the examinations that have been carried out by way of the events. The Courtroom additional rejected the appellants’ submission that the movement pass judgement on acted improperly by way of reviewing the transcripts.

In making an allowance for whether or not the movement pass judgement on erred in making an allowance for the respondent’s answer affidavit, which was once filed overdue (i.e., following the dispute that arose over the examinations of the events, and after a scheduling time limit set by way of the movement pass judgement on), the Courtroom held there was once no error. When appellants’ suggest objected to its admission, the movement pass judgement on requested if the appellants have been in search of an adjournment. The appellants didn’t search an adjournment and indicated their readiness to continue, despite the fact that the answer affidavit have been to be admitted. The movement pass judgement on correctly exercised his discretion to continue within the cases. Subsequently, there was once no unfairness.

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Duraisami v. Yaworski, 2024 ONCA 27

[Hourigan, Trotter and Copeland JJ.A.]

Recommend:

M.A. Jaeger, for the appellants

T.M. Zheng, for the respondent

Key phrases: Breach of Contract, Civil Process, Simplified Process, Abstract Judgment, Regulations of Civil Process, r.76, Blended Air Mechanical Services and products Inc. v. Flesch, 2011 ONCA 764, Manthandi v. ASCO Production, 2020 ONCA 485, Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53

info:

Y and the respondent, D, entered right into a three way partnership settlement for the aim of buying, redeveloping, and promoting a assets in Cambridge (the “JVA”). The JVA only if the respondent would obtain a go back of her authentic funding of $100,000, plus an extra $20,000. Y signed a non-public ensure on July 23, 2019 (the “Ensure”), making sure the efficiency of the JVA.

The respondent signed the JVA on July 24, 2019 (Y had signed on July 22, 2019). On July 29, 2019, she complicated $100,000 to the company respondent (“932”), the landlord of the valuables discipline to the JVA. Y was once an officer and director of 932.

The valuables discipline to the JVA was once bought on or about Might 19, 2020, for $900,800. Y didn’t advise the respondent of the sale; slightly, on July 9, 2020, he steered her by way of e mail that the sale were behind schedule because of the pandemic. Y by no means despatched the compensation. In October 2021, the respondent issued the declare for $120,000 in damages for breach of the Ensure and the JVA.

The movement pass judgement on granted abstract judgment, discovering Y susceptible to pay the respondent $120,000 pursuant to the phrases of the Ensure. He additional discovered that, decoding the JVA, the events meant by way of its phrases that the respondent can be paid the agreed $120,000 from the proceeds of the sale of the topic lands with out deduction for any losses the mission would possibly maintain. With admire to 932, the movement pass judgement on discovered that it were unjustly enriched, the respondent were disadvantaged, and there was once no juristic reason why for the enrichment. In this foundation the movement pass judgement on discovered the appellants collectively and severally susceptible to the respondent for $120,000 plus prejudgment passion.

factor:

Did the movement pass judgement on err find that the claims of the respondent have been suitable for abstract judgment?

keeping:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No.

The movement pass judgement on was once alive to the problem of whether or not it was once suitable to make a decision this motion by way of abstract judgment, for the reason that it was once a rule 76 continuing. His causes have been transparent that he regarded as the right criminal research, regarding the Courtroom’s selections in Blended Air and Manthadi. There was once no palpable and overriding error in his discovering that the motion was once document-driven and that the related info have been undisputed. This abstract judgment movement didn’t activate findings of credibility. There was once no prejudice to the appellants from the subject being decided by way of abstract judgment.

Additional, there was once no palpable and overriding error within the movement pass judgement on’s interpretation of the Ensure and the JVA, and particularly, no error in his discovering that the Ensure was once legitimate and subsisting and that it did what it was once obviously meant to do – impose non-public legal responsibility on Y.

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SHORT CIVIL DECISIONS

Jakubov v. Solar Lifestyles Assurance Corporate of Canada, 2024 ONCA 16

[Hourigan, Trotter and Copeland JJ.A.]

Recommend:

G. Roberts, for the appellant

B. Wong and N. Hollard, for the respondent

Key phrases: Civil Process, Abstract Judgment, Limitation Sessions, Discoverability, Boundaries Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Winmill v. Woodstock (Police Services and products Board), 2017 ONCA 962

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