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Business partners generally owe each other fiduciary duties and can be liable for civil fraud if funds invested in the partnership business are not used for their intended purpose.

Lawyers, brokerages, trustees, and other parties may sometimes find themselves holding funds that they do not want while others fight over who is entitled to them. Interpleader applications are a long-standing...

While defamation lawsuits continue to receive the most judicial attention under Ontario's anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) legislation...

Court orders are meant to be followed; otherwise justice and rule of law will be undermined. Accordingly, courts are empowered to ensure that their orders are obeyed, and in the most extreme cases, can find a litigant in contempt of court for failing to comply with an order.

In Ontario, the Superior Court of Justice has broad discretion when it comes to awarding costs following a hearing.

Although solicitor-client privilege is a fundamental civil and legal right belonging to a client, the right is not absolute and can be lost where there is either an express or implied waiver of privilege.

Our justice system is designed to work efficiently and to adhere to the highest principles of integrity. In general, parties appearing before a court must either be represented by a lawyer ...

Rule 21 of the Rules of Civil Procedure is a powerful weapon in the arsenal of a defendant.

In Ontario, section 4 of the Limitations Act, 2002 establishes a general two-year limitation period for commencing an action from the date the action is discovered.

In Achor v Ihekweme, 2023 ABKB 606 (CanLII), the plaintiffs obtained damages for defamation against a social media influencer who had posted statements about them on Instagram.

A defamation action brought by the mother of WE Charity founders Craig and Marc Kielburger against Canadaland Inc. was allowed to continue after an anti-SLAPP motion was dismissed...

A years-long dispute between neighbours in Stouffville, Ontario escalated from a lawn mower incident to a civil trial involving claims of assault, defamation, and intrusion of privacy.

The process by which a foreign court seeks the assistance of an Ontario court to gather evidence for use in local proceedings, as discussed in a previous blog...

In early 2019, a former model and adult film performer, Amanda Nagy also known as "Mandy Morbid," posted a message on her Facebook page saying that Zak Smith, her former husband...

A recent case of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice illustrates the difficulties that a plaintiff may encounter when seeking to stop allegedly defamatory posts from being published on social media.

Section 8, "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure."

Buyers of new homes sometimes enter into an Agreement of Purchase and Sale (APS) with the builder/developer of the proposed dwelling who doesn't own the underlying land...

After an Agreement of Purchase and Sale (APS) is signed and a deposit is paid it may be weeks or months before the scheduled completion date. In the case of new properties under construction, it could be years.