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There were only two substantive civil decisions this week. One was a residential tenancy matter. The other was an estates matter that reminds us that claims for purely declaratory relief

Smith v Ontario (Attorney General) marked the second time in the last four months that the Court has addressed the issue of prosecutorial immunity, having already done so in the April 2019 decision

The Ontario Court of Appeal released decisions for the week of June 15, 2026, addressing critical issues spanning employment compensation disputes, occupier liability and insurance deductions, international child custody matters, banking litigation costs, limitation periods in motor vehicle accidents, trust ownership disputes, offshore jurisdiction challenges, real estate development damages, and medical malpractice involving pediatric neurologists.

Following are this week's summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

Following are the summaries for this week's civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

Following are this week's summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of November 15, 2021.

We are all, we hope, sticklers for ethics here, particularly when dealing with litigants in person. Which is why the judgment in Jenkinson v Robertson [2022] EWHC 756 (Admin) has saddened us to no small degree.

In a much anticipated decision, the Supreme Court of Canada released its reasons in Law Society of Saskatchewan v. Abrametz last week.

On the last day of the 2006 Term, by a five-to-four vote, the U.S. Supreme Court held that minimum resale price maintenance – commonly called RPM – would no longer constitute a per se violation of the antitrust laws, overruling its 1911 decision in Dr. Miles.In doing so, the Court followed the recommendation of the Solicitor General, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission, and many but not all economists.

In Schnarr v. Blue Mountain Resorts Limited, the Court determined that occupiers of recreational properties, such as ski resorts, are entitled to include limitation of liability clauses ...

In recent years, employers have been facing a growing number of claims involving retaliation or whistleblowing. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), the governmental entity charged with the task of investigating federal claims of employment discrimination, investigates retaliation claims on a priority basis.

Court Of Appeal Summaries (February 16-19, 2016)

The mobility of employees in today’s global economy, and the ease with which electronic data can be moved and copied, make it essential for employers and employees to under-stand whether non-competition agreements will be enforced in jurisdictions around the world.

This was a busy week for the Court of Appeal. Topics covered included family law, wrongful dismissal, wills and estates, insurance coverage, tort liability of employees, workplace safety, police liability, ...

A round-up of recent Construction industry updates.

Many testamentary instruments include clauses which are intended to relieve trustees from liability in the execution of their duties.