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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 28, 2026.
Continue ReadingIn Caruso v. Law Society of Ontario, the Court confirmed that By-Law 4 confines Ontario paralegals’ immigration and
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 21, 2026.
Continue ReadingIn Lozovski v. Equityline Mortgage Investment Corporation, the Court of Appeal found that a receivership order granting investigative
“It ain’t over ‘till it’s over,” depending on your point of view, may be a Yogi-ism (as to baseball and life) or a Lenny Kravitz refrain (as to relationships). But it can also be an admonition from an appellate court that things in the trial court are not yet final, and the parties have jumped
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 14, 2026.
Continue ReadingIn Knauff v. Ontario (Human Rights Tribunal), the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the moving party’s application for
Normally, an appellate court will “limit appellate review to issues raised by the parties because those legal issues are joined after full adversarial briefing.” The Supreme Court of North Carolina has cautioned that “[a]ddressing issues that the parties never raised, preserved, and asserted on appeal is harmful for several reasons.” One of those reasons is
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Good afternoon.Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 31, 2026.
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In Caroti v. Vuletic, the Court allowed an appeal seeking to set aside a distribution order regarding the
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Good afternoon.Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 24, 2026. It was a light week.
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In Minotar Holdings Inc. v. Ontario (Municipal Affairs and Housing) the majority of
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 17, 2026.
Continue ReadingIn Sakab Saudi Holding Company v. Al Jabri, the Court dismissed an appeal concerning the production of law
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 10, 2026.
Continue ReadingIn Cycle Toronto v. Ontario (Attorney General), the Court allowed the appeal from the application judge’s finding that
[This article by Matthew A. McGuire was originally published in the August 2026 issue of The Iowa Lawyer magazine.]
The last four Iowa Supreme Court terms—from the 2022-2023 term to the recently concluded 2025-2026 term—have seen a stylistic shift in how the Court articulates its rulings. Brevity has become the order of the day. Not only