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’
Constitutional Law
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (DECEMBER 1 – 5, 2014)
By John Polyzogopoulos on
Hello again to everyone. Below are summaries of this week’s Ontario Court of Appeal civil decisions (non-criminal). In an interesting Charter decision this week, Tanudjaja v Canada, the Court (2-1) rejected on the basis of justiciability a Charter challenge on whether the Charter guarantees the right to affordable housing. Among other grounds for dismissing…
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (AUGUST 25 TO AUGUST 29)
By John Polyzogopoulos on
Hello everybody. Today’s light Labour Day weekend edition of Blaney’s OCA Summaries includes decisions in the following areas: family law, child welfare, abuse of process in a solicitor’s negligence case, an interesting decision where bankruptcy law, the Execution Act, the Mortgages Act and property law all intersect to determine the priority of distribution, and…