Civil Litigation
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November 17, 2025
Sheri L. Woods joins Court of King’s Bench in Saskatchewan
Sheri L. Woods has been appointed a judge of the Court of King’s Bench for Saskatchewan in Prince Albert.
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November 17, 2025
The irrelevance of disability or death: Wrongful dismissal damages when employee can’t work
At two recent mediations, an issue arose that does not come up often, and as a result is not front of mind for most counsel: how to calculate wrongful dismissal damages when the employee could not have worked during the notice period. In both cases, defence counsel sought to discount damages to reflect what the employee would have earned had they actually been working, while plaintiff counsel insisted on full compensation for the entire notice period.
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November 17, 2025
Option to purchase case illustrates important legal issues
Sri Sabari Peedam v. 1000516033 Ontario Ltd., 2025 ONCA 109 is an interesting case for real estate lawyers not just because of its outcome, but for the numerous real estate legal issues that it presents for consideration.
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November 17, 2025
PROCEEDINGS - Appeals and judicial review - Deference to expertise of decision maker
Appeal by Canadian Natural Resources Limited of trial judge’s decision on liability and costs award; cross-appeal by Signalta Resources Limited on damages award.
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November 17, 2025
ATV accident decision illustrative of ‘so much grey in criminal law’
A Toronto criminal lawyer, Michelle Psutka, posted this comment online: “There is so much grey in criminal law. Accused and convicted people are not inherently bad, and the state is not inherently good.”
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November 14, 2025
CFIA completes operations on B.C. farm to cull ostriches
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that it has completed its active operations at the Edgewood, B.C. farm whose ostriches were ordered to be depopulated due to avian flu.
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November 14, 2025
Ontario’s plan to change climate rules spark legal uncertainty: scholar
The Ontario government is planning to scrap requirements to set greenhouse gas reduction targets and a legal scholar is saying that would bring a court challenge of those rules into a “legal grey area.”
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November 14, 2025
Be it resolved: Finders keepers
Ever hear of a place in Russia called Khanty-Mansiysk? Didn’t think so. Vladimir Rychagov was a factory worker there, until he hit the jackpot, or rather helped himself to it. Through a software glitch, his employer deposited into his bank account the salaries of 34 of its employees, being over seven million rubles instead of about 47,000 rubles, which is $87,000 instead of $581. Vlad, however, refuses to return the slight excess.
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November 13, 2025
Court authorizes class action over alleged abuse of Indigenous children at youth centres
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class action against the provincial government and several health and social service institutions over alleged discrimination and abuse of Indigenous children placed in youth protection centres across Quebec since 1950.
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November 13, 2025
Court limits capital loss in oil and gas tax dispute relating to partnership
In an oil and gas tax decision, the Federal Court of Appeal has clarified the application of the general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR), reducing the disallowed capital loss claimed by a company while addressing the misuse of adjusted cost base bump provisions in a 2010 partnership transaction.