Privacy and Access To Information; Administrative Law; Judicial Review; Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario; Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act; Family Responsibility Off

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