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Please find our summaries of this past week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario (there were two substantive civil decisions).

In Stirrett v. Cheema, the trial judge had found the head of a hospital’s clinical research trial liable for breach of fiduciary duty after a trial participant died as a result of complications that arose during an angiogram. The Court allowed the appeal after a thorough analysis of the role of causation in cases involving a breach of fiduciary duty.Continue Reading COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (MAY 4 – 8, 2020)