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As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, Ontario's justice system continues to take steps to adapt to these challenging times by embracing technological advances and encouraging new practices.

Voltaire once said about the legal system, "I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one".

On April 10, 2025, Justice Boswell and Allison Speigel, the Co-Chairs of the Working Group responsible for preparing the Civil Rules Review, presented the Phase 2 Consultation Paper to The Advocates' Society via Zoom.

As litigators know, the Rules of Civil Procedure provide for what is usually referred to as the "Deemed Undertaking" between parties to a lawsuit not to disclose documents gathered in the course of a lawsuit...

Justice J. R. Henderson held that leave of the court is not required to bring a refusals motion despite the moving party having set down the action for trial.

As of January 1, lawyers, judges, businesses and the public are being asked to adopt a new approach to settling disputes.

We previously wrote about the Court of Appeal for Ontario's decision in Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation to order the Ecuadorian plaintiffs to post nearly $1,000,000 as security for costs.

On February 11, 2020, the new Regulation respecting the procedure of the Administrative Tribunal of Québec came into force.

Recently, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a decision that is sure to become an invaluable resource for civil litigators in Ontario.

There is no "near miss" allowed on the timing of offers to settle under Rule 49.10 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, but residual discretion always rests with the trial judge in awarding costs...

Where a defendant has never been to Canada, if an act in furtherance of a conspiracy is committed in Ontario, then that is sufficient for an Ontario Court to assume jurisdiction.

In Sumner v. Ottawa (Police Services), 2023 ONCA 140, the Ontario Court of Appeal considered rule 2.1.01 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194...

Lawyers in Quebec are preparing themselves for the coming into force of the new Code of Civil Procedure in January 2016.

In R. v. N.S., 2012 SCC 72, the Supreme Court of Canada outlined the framework to be used when determining whether a witness can be permitted to testify in a criminal proceeding while wearing a niqab.

In R v. Perkins, the Court of Appeal for Ontario held that it did not have the jurisdiction to re-open a sentence appeal that had been heard on the merits.

The Ontario Court of Appeal's June 22, 2015 decision in R. v. Rutigliano considers when an appeal itself will be an abuse of process.

In the recent decision in Bayer Inc v Amgen Canada Inc, Case Management Judge Duchesne of the Federal Court dismissed a request for samples on the basis...

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has clarified the temporal scope of amendments to the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act that prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts. In Vandenbosch v. Rogers Communications Canada Inc., the court determined whether these amendments apply to disputes arising from events that occurred before the legislation came into force on March 31, 2025.