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Recently, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed a teenager’s leave to appeal an Ontario Court of Appeal decision relating to her case against a town in Ontario for damages she suffered after being electrocuted during a soccer game. Teenager Electrocuted During Soccer Game In the summer of 2012, an e … Read more »

In a recent Ontario case, a stable owner sued a horse owner claiming that her horse had caused his facial injuries although he had no memory of the incident. Husband And Wife Hired to Take Care of Horse  In 2008, a husband and wife purchased a commercial horse stable company that boarded and took ca … Read more »

We had recently written about an August 25, 2021 Ontario decision in which the court ruled that all prospective jury members would be asked about their COVID-19 vaccination status and those who were unvaccinated would be excused from jury duty. It should also be noted that a British Columbia court r … Read more »

We have previously written about the numerous issues the COVID-19 pandemic has caused for civil jury trials in Canada over the past 18 months, here and here. More recently, on August 25, 2021, an Ontario court was faced with the question of whether to allow non-vaccinated people to sit on a jury tri … Read more »

Being the victim of a physical assault or abuse is a traumatic and devastating experience for anyone, and this is magnified in situations where the victim suffers lasting or permanent physical or psychological damage. In a recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision, the court upheld a decision that ord … Read more »