Make Yourself at Home: The SCC Grants Squatter’s Rights on Municipal Land
In Kosicki v Toronto (City), 2025 SCC 28 [Kosicki], a narrow five-to-four majority of the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) granted a Torontonian couple possessory title to a municipally owned strip of land in their backyard. Although Kosicki clarifies the law of adverse possession, the divided judgment reveals challenges in reconciling the common law with […]