Canada
- April 1 2020
Appellate courts across Canada have restricted operations to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 global health emergency. Each court has adopted its…
Canada
- March 2 2020
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has the discretion to extend the time periods to perfect an appeal. The test is described in Sopinka and Gelowitz on…
Canada
- January 20 2020
In Bernard Property Maintenance v. Taylor, 2019 ONCA 830, a panel of the Court of Appeal for Ontario reconstituted itself as a panel of the…
Canada
- December 4 2019
The Court of Appeal for Ontario recently released brief reasons which provide essential guidance regarding the limits of the Court’s ability to ‘pull…
Canada
- October 21 2019
Appellate courts will rarely exercise their jurisdiction to hear a moot criminal appeal. Such a circumstance recently arose in R. v. Poulin, 2019 SCC…
Canada
- October 16 2019
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has recently reminded practitioners that agreement that an order is final does not vest the Court with jurisdiction…
Canada
- August 15 2019
We deal extensively with appellate practice and procedure in Sopinka and Gelowitz on the Conduct of an Appeal, 4th Edition, but occasionally novel…
Canada
- July 26 2019
There is an established line of authority that no appeal lies to the Court of Appeal for Ontario from a lower court decision denying leave to appeal…
Canada
- June 12 2019
In Donovan v. Sherman Estate, 2019 ONCA 376, the Court of Appeal for Ontario set aside a sealing order, to take effect 10 days after the release of…
Canada
- May 6 2019
In Brief oral reasons from the bench, the Supreme Court of Canada recently held in R. V. Wakefield, 2019 SCC 26 that it was an error for the Court of…