On December 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada (the “Court”) released Deloitte & Touche v Livent Inc., 2017 SCC 63 [Livent], a decision in which the Court refined the framework for analyzing a defendant’s duty of care in cases of negligent misrepresentation of performance of a service. This decision has far-reaching consequences for auditors, […]
Due to a dearth of commercial appellate decisions around the holiday season, a tort decision from the Ontario Divisional Court has caught my attention. Swern v Amazon Hardwood Centre Inc, 2015 ONSC 7590 [Swern] is a Small Claims Court decision appealed by the Defendants to the Divisional Court on a number of well-reasoned points of […]
The Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in DLG & Associates Ltd. v Minto Properties, 2015 ONCA 705 [DLG], raises important issues around the limits of "exculpatory" and "entire agreement" clauses in leasing agreements: namely, how far they can be relied upon by a landlord who knowingly withholds key information from a tenant on the state […]