Please join me and Lea Nebel at our “Top Appeals of 2019” CLE (registration is now open at the OBA’s website), dinner program to take place at the OBA on Thursday, February 27, 2020. Three decisions will be featured. The first is Darmar Farms v Sygenta, which deals with the potential new tort of “premature commercialization” and pure economic loss in product liability context. The second is The Guarantee Company of North America v Royal Bank of Canada regarding the priority of construction trust claims in bankruptcy. The third is Wright v Urbanek, which deals with the scope of the doctrines of abuse of process and collateral attack.
Wishing everyone a pleasant work week.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Civil Decisions
B.D. v. D.O., 2020 ONCA 29
Keywords: Torts, Sexual Battery, PP v. DD, 2017 ONCA 180, F.H. v. McDougall, 2008 SCC 53
Hajrizi v. Ottawa-Carleton District Schoolboard, 2020 ONCA 32
Keywords: Torts, Misfeasance in Public Office, Intentional Infliction of Mental Suffering, Negligence, Defamation, Conspiracy, Dependent’s Claims, Civil Procedure, Costs, Family Law Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. F.3, s. 61
Wangdah Material Toronto Ltd. v. 1691530 Ontario Ltd., 2020 ONCA 28
Keywords: Contracts, Breach, Torts, Conversion, Civil Procedure, Applications, Summary Trials, Reasonable Apprehension of Bias, Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 38.10
Zeifman Partners Inc. v. A., 2020 ONCA 33
Keywords: Contracts, Breach, Real Property, Agreements of Purchase of Sale of Land, Civil Procedure, Default Judgments, Setting Aside, Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules 1.04(1), 19.01, Default Judgment, Mountain View Farms Ltd. v. McQueen, 2014 ONCA 194
Pierce v. Belows, 2020 ONCA 41
Keywords: Contracts, Civil Procedure, Offers to Settle, Enforcement, Milios v. Zagas (1998), 38 O.R. (3d) 218 (C.A.), Scherer v. Paletta, [1966] 2 O.R. 524 (C.A.)
Elliot v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2020 ONCA 36
Keywords: Torts, Negligence, Misfeasance in Public Office, Crown Liability, Contracts, Insurance, Automobile Insurance, Duty of Good Faith, Statutory Accident Benefits, Civil Procedure, Class Proceedings, Proceedings Against the Crown, Notice, Proceedings Against the Crown Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.27, ss. 7(1), Insurance Act, RSO 1990, c I.8, Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule, O Reg 34/10, Mattick Estate v. Ontario (Minister of Health) (2001), 52 O.R. (3d) 221 (C.A.), Beardsley v. Ontario (2001), 57 O.R. (3d) 1 (C.A.), Latta v. Ontario (2002), 62 O.R. (3d) 7 (C.A.)
Short Civil Decisions
Asfar v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, 2020 ONCA 31
Keywords: Contracts, Real Property, Mortgages, Torts, Negligent Misrepresentation, Fraudulent Misrepresentation, Breach of Trust, Conspiracy, Fraud, Civil Procedure, Limitation Periods, Limitations Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B
Elbasiouni v. Brampton (City), 2020 ONCA 43
Keywords: Municipal Law, Appeals, Leave to Appeal, Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43 s. 6(1)(a), Building Code Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 23 ss. 25 and 26, Sault Dock Co. Ltd. v. Sault Ste. Marie (City), [1973] 2 O.R. 479 (C.A.)
Criminal Decisions
R. v. C., 2020 ONCA 35
Keywords: Criminal Law, Impaired Driving, Refusing to Provide Breath Sample, Breach of Peace Bond, Arbitrary Detention
R. v. S.H., 2020 ONCA 34
Keywords: Criminal Law, Sexual Assault, Criminal Code, s. 686(1)(b)(iii), s. 276, R. v. Arp, [1998] 3 S.C.R. 339, R. v. Mahalingan, 2008 SCC 63, R v. D.C., 2019 ONCA 442, R. v. Bartholomew, 2019 ONCA 377, R. v. M.B., 2011 ONCA 76, R. v. L.L., 2009 ONCA 413
R. v. R.S., 2020 ONCA 39
Keywords: Criminal Law, Fresh Evidence, Criminal Code, s. 486.5
R. v. R., 2020 ONCA 38
Keywords: Criminal Law, Impaired Driving Causing Death, Sentencing, R. v. Lacasse, 2015 SCC 64, R. v. Kummer, 2011 ONCA 39, R. v. Luskin, 2012 ONSC 1764, R. v. Muzzo, 2016 ONSC 2068, R. v. R.E.M., 2008 SCC 51, R. v. Altiman, 2019 ONCA 511, R. v. M.(C.A.), [1996] 1 S.C.R. 500
R. v. C., 2020 ONCA 40
Keywords: Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Jury Selection, Peremptory Challenges, Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, 1st Sess., 42nd Parl., 2019, c. 25, ss. 269, 272, 406, Criminal Code, ss. 634, 640, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ss. 11(d), 11(f), 7
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