s. 20; s. 47(1); Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services) v Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner); British Columbia Telephone Co. v Shaw Cable Systems (B.C.) Ltd.

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