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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of January 29, 2024.
Congratulations to Blaneys’ own Anthony Gatensby and Kathleen Lefebvre who were successful in responding to an appeal about whether a commercial landlord’s insurer was permitted to bring a subrogated claim against its tenant for negligence in causing a fire. The Court affirmed
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of January 8, 2024.
In Zafar v Azeem, the mother’s appeal against a decision that ordered her three-year-old child to return to Pakistan, where the father claimed the child was habitually resident, was allowed. She successfully argued procedural unfairness due to the motion judge’s failure
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The justices returned to the bench on Jan. 8 for a packed session of oral arguments – starting with immigration policy and the post-9/11 “No Fly List” and ending on Jan. 17 with two cases that could upend the functional power of the federal administrative state.
Monday’s arguments began with two consolidated cases, Campos-Chaves v. Garland and Garland v. Singh, in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can … Read the rest
A Maryland police officer has been arrested on charges that he assaulted police during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Michael Kunzelman reports for the Associated Press. The Montgomery County Police Department hired Officer Justin Lee roughly one year after the Jan. 6 riot and said in a news release that it didn’t know about his alleged involvement in the attack until July 2023, when it learned he was under FBI investigation.
The department has since … Read the rest
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Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of January 17, 2022.
In Walters v. Walters, a wills and estates case, the Court provided a helpful summary of the jurisprudence regarding the requirement of trustees to give effect to a testator’s intentions as ascertained from the language of the will and the surrounding circumstances, including … Read the rest