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Following are our summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario released during the week of January 27. The theme of the week was real property and condominiums.

Topics covered last week included the proper notice of proceedings against the provincial Crown, the tort of battery, costs in an unsuccessful claim against a school board, the tort of conversion and setting aside default judgments in the context of an alleged breach of an agreement of purchase and sale of land.

There were several substantive decisions released this week by the Court of Appeal. Topics covered included challenging decisions of a voluntary religious association, solicitor liens, limitation periods in the LTD context, enforcement of foreign judgments, adverse possession, and an application for reconsideration of an appeal relating to the assessment of legal accounts in the condominium law context.

There were three civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal this week. Topics covered included the apportionment of costs following settlement of an MVA case, the admissibility of documents in a personal injury case, and Anti-SLAPP.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario released during the week of December 23.

Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In Sosnowski v. MacEwen Petroleum Inc., the Court appears to have unconvincingly dialed back how far the “appropriate means” test can go to extend the limitation period. In this case, the employee waited until he was acquitted of theft (which took six years, including appeals) before suing for wrongful dismissal (he had been fired for cause because of the alleged theft).

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

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