Content Warning: this article has some descriptions of violence and abuse that may be triggering to some readers* Justice Mandhane of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (“ONSC” ) has re-framed how family violence is addressed in divorce proceedings in the recent case of Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia, 2022 ONSC 1303 [Ahluwalia]. Previously, survivors of family […]
In November of last year, I wrote an article for The Court on the recent decision in Uber Canada Inc. v City of Toronto, 2015 ONSC 3572 [“Uber”] by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (“ONSC”). In Uber, Justice Sean F. Dunphy ruled that Uber is neither a “taxicab broker” nor a “limousine service” within […]
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 […]