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Ontario Superior Court approves $4.5 million settlement in complex medical malpractice case
The Superior Court of Justice of Ontario has approved a $4.5 million settlement in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a ...
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Ontario Superior Court awards over $1.1 million in costs and interest in collision case
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ordered the defendant to pay $1,104,557.50 in costs and interest to Smitiuch Injury Law ...
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Ontario Superior Court finds negligence in treatment of asthma attack leading to brain injury
The Superior Court of Justice of Ontario has ruled that an internal medicine specialist breached the standard of care in her ...
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Recalling expert witness to testify amounted to case-splitting
Plaintiffs’ expert witness L supplied report and testimony on effect of use of lake as reservoir for hydroelectric generation and water control purposes on First Nation. Crown provided report from ...
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Trial judge conflated actus reus and mens rea of offence
Accused parents were convicted of failing to provide necessaries of life to their young son, who died of meningitis. Majority of Court of Appeal dismissed parents’ appeals. Dissenting judge would have ...
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Proof that claimant suffered from chronic pain syndrome did not automatically mean claimant was entitled to disability benefits
General Division of Social Security Tribunal (SST-GD) upheld denial of Canada Pension Plan disability benefits to claimant because he did not establish that he suffered from severe and prolonged ...
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Commissioner could not compel production of records over which solicitor-client privilege asserted
Solicitor-client privilege. In context of constructive dismissal claim, delegate of Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta ordered production of records over ...
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Protective order was not subject to stringent criteria set out by SCC for confidentiality order
Plaintiff brought patent infringement action. Patent claimed methods of detecting atypical electricity consumption, primarily for identification of marijuana grow operations. Mandate of defendant ...
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Gross Overriding Royalties did not run with land or grant holder interest in lands
At request of insolvent company’s lender (Third Eye), court-appointed receiver over assets, undertaking and property, including mining claims. Certain claims were subject to Gross Overriding Royalty ...
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Fact that defendants agreed to pay high amount to monitor not determinative of what was reasonable
Plaintiff monitor, on behalf of creditors, pensioners and retirees of A Ltd., brought oppression action under Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, involving A Ltd. as applicant in proceedings. E ...
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Wife not permitted to advance equalization of property claim after having declared bankruptcy
Parties entered into minutes of settlement that provided husband would assume ownership of matrimonial home as well as related debts and expenses, and pay wife $40,000 in exchange for release of her ...
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Applicant’s arguments raised disagreements with application of settled principles to facts of her case
Judicial review. Social Security Tribunal-General Division (SST-GD) found that applicant was not entitled to receive employment insurance (EI) benefits as she left her employment without just cause ...