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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 October 19, 2026.
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In Suguitan (Re), the Court set aside a transfer at undervalue order under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
Earlier this week, I caught a webcast replay of Judge Ortiz’s overview of recent civil decisions from the Supreme Court of Virginia. It was characteristically excellent (except that the most interesting case of the term, Mast v. A.A., reversed Judge Ortiz even though he was probably right. So etiquette and ethics kept us from
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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 October 12, 2026.
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In Thiessen v. Thiessen Estate, the Court allowed the estate trustees’ appeal and held that the respondent’s claim
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of October 5, 2026.
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In Heegsma v. Hamilton (City), the Court allowed an appeal by 14 unhoused people from the dismissal
If you’ve been practicing in North Carolina long enough, you have undoubtedly encountered this fact pattern:
Effective July 1, 2025, Code Section 17.1-403(ii)(c) expanded the CAV’s authority to dispense with oral argument. Before that date, the statute directed the Supreme Court to adopt rules allowing the CAV to dispense with oral argument “if the parties agree that oral argument is not necessary or if the panel has examined the briefs 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 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