Hello everyone. Below are summaries of this week’s Ontario Court of Appeal civil decisions (non-criminal). Topics include privacy, franchise law, issue estoppel, appellate jurisdiction over a trial judge’s decision to strike a jury (with a strongly-worded dissent by Laskin J.A.), and the permissibility of using surveillance evidence at trial without disclosing it to the opposing
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COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 22 – 26, 2014 AND DECEMBER 29, 2014 – JANUARY 2, 2015 )
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Hello again. I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and wish you all the best for 2015. Following are the Ontario Court of Appeal Summaries for the weeks of December 22 and 29, 2014. We will resume our regularly scheduled Friday afternoon postings commencing this Friday. Topics covered below include defamation, family law, assessment of lawyers’…