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The Court of Appeal has recently held that the limitation period to bring an action enforcing a contractual right to indemnity starts to run on the date that a party has been served with a Statement of Claim in the underlying lawsuit that triggers the right to be indemnified.

Even though debtors’ prison was abolished many generations ago, judgment debtors can still land themselves in jail if they refuse to answer questions on examinations in aid of execution, also known as judgment debtor or JD exams.

In a much-anticipated decision, the Competition Tribunal rejected the Competition Commissioner’s application to force The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) to relax its rules surrounding how Multiple Listing Service (MLS) information was used by real estate agents. The Tribunal also ordered the Commissioner to pay TREB’s costs.

Ontario remains an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction, the Ontario Court of Appeal has confirmed in its recent decision in Haas v. Gunasekaram

In Bertsch v. Datastealth Inc., 2025 ONCA 379, the Ontario Court of Appeal delivered an employer-friendly decision in upholding a termination clause in an employment agreement...

In the case of Weenen v. Biadi, the Ontario Court of Appeal was faced with a request from the law firm of a successful plaintiff that its outstanding legal fees should be paid before any payments could be made to the plaintiff by the defendant.

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently released a handful of new opinions about the application of Ontario's Anti-SLAPP legislation.

Canada's highest court has recently remanded a case back to the Ontario Court of Appeal for disposition dealing with an employee's entitlement to damages relating to his ...

On February 28, 2020, a judge of the Ontario Superior Court granted judgment in a class action and awarded an accounting of the profits realized by three Bank of Montreal subsidiaries on approximately $102.9 million ...

Judges of the Superior Court of Ontario may sit and make decisions in courtrooms in other provinces when the Ontario court has jurisdiction over the parties and issues in the proceeding, the Ontario Superior Court held recently: Parsons v. The Canadian Red Cross Society, 2013 ONSC 3053.

The New York Convention permits parties to arbitrations to enforce arbitral awards in any contracting state, including Canada.

Superior Court judges can sit outside their home provinces, the Supreme Court held today. This decision will facilitate the management of national class actions and other inter-provincial litigation in Canada.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that a force majeure clause can be triggered without requiring fault or breach by the affected party. In a dispute between a fitness club operator and its landlord over COVID-19 closures, the court confirmed that government restrictions preventing in-person operations constituted a force majeure event, extending the lease term without additional rent obligations.

On June 8, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal from a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in Excalibur Special Opportunities LP v. Schwartz Levitsky Feldman LLP ...

Telephone and Internet provider Comwave Networks Inc. of Toronto has agreed to pay an administrative penalty of $300,000 for false or misleading representations.

In a recent Press Release, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) has applauded the Ontario government's decision to give it what it calls the "full enforcement toolkit" of powers to investigate and bring enforcement proceedings against the individuals and firms it regulates.

Plaintiff class action lawyers were unable to convince the Divisional Court to grant leave to appeal an earlier decision of the Superior Court of Justice in which Justice van Rensberg significantly reduced the size of the plaintiff class in Silver v. IMAX.

In a legal climate that relies with growing frequency on alternative dispute resolution, a lawyer's negotiating skills are increasingly important.