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BLANEY’S APPEALS: ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (FEBRUARY 18 – 22, 2019)

By John Polyzogopoulos on February 22, 2019

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Good evening.

Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. There were only four substantive civil decisions released this week.

Most notably, the Court of Appeal once again addressed the new anti-SLAPP legislation in United Soils Management Ltd. v. Mohammed (“United Soils”). In United Soils, the appellant brought actions against two respondents for libel after the respondents posted comments on a Facebook group regarding the appellant’s excavation and dumping operations. The respondents were successful in having the suits dismissed by way of motion under the anti-SLAPP provisions of section 137.1 of the Courts of Justice Act. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, and clarified that the anti-SLAPP legislation does not provide for the award of punitive damages against a plaintiff when an action is dismissed under section 137.1.
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