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Good evening.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario released this past week.

Topics covered this week included:

  1. the interpretation of a mortgage assumption provision in an agreement of purchase and sale of land;
  2. the interpretation of an early payment provision in a vendor take-back mortgage;
  3. the interpretation of a municipal by-law;
  4. the calculation of performance bonus entitlements and shareholder bonuses in a wrongful dismissal context;
  5. setting aside transfers of assets between common law spouses following separation; and
  6. several procedural issues such as jurisdiction to hear an appeal in a judicial review context, costs in a class proceedings context, amending pleadings in the face of a limitation period issue, stay pending appeal, and stays of appeals as a sanction for failing to comply with a court order.

Continue Reading BLANEY’S APPEALS: ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (NOVEMBER 26 – 30, 2018)