Good afternoon.
Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court
of Appeal for Ontario from March 2, 2026 to March 6, 2026.
In Sidhu v. Jain, the Court dismissed the appeal
and upheld the motion judge's determination that the
respondent's claim for a monetary remedy to compensate her for
a claimed one-third beneficial interest in Lot 16 was governed by
the Real Property Limitations Act, not
the Limitations Act, 2002. Even though a monetary
remedy was sought rather than the land itself (which had already
been sold), that did not take the claim out of
the RPLA.
In G.G. v. Ontario, the Court granted intervener
status to four organizations in a class action appeal that will be
considering whether the Ragoonanan principle
should continue to apply in Ontario class proceedings. That
principle requires that there be a representative plaintiff (and
not merely any member of the proposed class) with a cause of action
against each defendant.
