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• Superior Court of Justice Recent Decisions
• Superior Court of Justice Divisional Court Recent Decisions

Superior Court of Justice Recent Decisions

• 2026-10-30 Estradas Trujillo v. Barrueta Rodriguez, 2026 ONSC 6079 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Family — Parenting time enforcement — Contempt motion — Breach of three court orders found, contempt discretion exercised — Police enforcement refused, further enforcement motion ordered with binding findings — Parenting time and reunification therapy context — Costs determined in separate reasons following contempt motion — No costs ordered
  Procedure — Costs — Successful party — Whether either parent was the successful party on the motion — Contempt not found, police enforcement declined — “Divided failure” and neither party obtained the result sought — Breach findings led only to an enforcement motion — No costs ordered
  Procedure — Offers to settle — Family Law Rules, O. Reg. 114/99, r. 24(12) — Whether an offer affected costs entitlement — Requirement that offer not expire or be withdrawn before hearing starts — Withdrawn offers ineligible, severable offer not met or bettered — Offer does not influence costs analysis — No costs ordered
  Procedure — Costs and penalties — Family Law Rules, O. Reg. 114/99, r. 1(8) — Whether enforcement fines should reduce costs — Enforcement mechanisms separate from costs, different purposes — Financial penalty for future non-compliance distinguished from costs under r. 24 — Overall proportionality noted without altering analysis — No costs ordered
• 2026-10-30 Macgillivray v. Poirier, 2026 ONSC 6110 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Business associations — Partnerships — Partnership property sale — Restitutionary damages — Whether plaintiff entitled to equal division of sale proceeds — Property partnership continued at time of sale — Defendants jointly and severally liable for restitutionary damages — Restitutionary damages awarded
  Business associations — Fiduciary duties — Disgorgement — Nexus requirement — Whether full disgorgement of sale proceeds is appropriate — Need for nexus between breach of fiduciary duty and profits — Partial disgorgement limited to excess received — Disgorgement ordered
  Civil liability — Deceit and conspiracy — Punitive damages — Malicious, oppressive and highhanded conduct — Whether punitive damages should be awarded for breach of fiduciary duty and unlawful means conspiracy — Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co. applied — Joint and several punitive liability imposed — Punitive damages awarded
  Procedure — Costs — Substantial indemnity costs — Rule 57.01, Rules of Civil Procedure — Whether substantial indemnity costs are warranted by litigation conduct — Delayed productions and discovery and deficient disclosure — Fraud and breach of fiduciary duty cited as basis for elevated costs — Substantial indemnity costs fixed and awarded
• 2026-10-30 Pichette v. 13941281 Canada Inc., 2026 ONSC 6156 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Contracts — Agreement of Purchase and Sale — Breach — Unconditional agreement and waiver of conditions — Whether purchaser who failed or refused to complete breached the APS — Refusal of further extension request — Tender of closing documents — Breach of agreement found — Declaration granted
  Contracts — Deposit — Forfeiture and credit — Deposit held in trust pending completion — Whether deposit was intended to guarantee performance and be forfeited — Deposit forfeited on purchaser’s failure to close — Deposit credited against damages (Azzarello v. Shawqi) — Payment of deposit ordered
  Contracts — Damages — Measure and mitigation — Difference in sale price and carrying costs — How damages are assessed after failed real estate transaction — Hadley v. Baxendale principles applied — Difference between APS and subsequent sale price awarded — Carrying costs awarded — Damages ordered
  Procedure — Prejudgment interest — Courts of Justice Act — Entitlement and rate — Whether prejudgment interest should be awarded from issuance of claim — Rate determined having regard to average prejudgment interest rate under Courts of Justice Act — Per diem calculation applied — Prejudgment interest awarded
• 2026-10-29 Papp v. Papp et al., 2026 ONSC 6009 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Business associations — Corporate dispute — Monitor — Ontario Business Corporations Act, s. 248(3), Courts of Justice Act, s. 101 — Interim relief sought in oppression proceeding involving equal shareholders — Court-appointed Monitor oversight and compliance reports — Competing motions to amend monitor mandate and restructure governance — Motions partly granted and dismissed
  Evidence — Interlocutory motion — Late service — Rules of Civil Procedure — What weight should be given to late-filed affidavits and an expert report — Prejudice from untested evidence with no meaningful cross-examination opportunity — Procedural fairness considered in deciding the record — No weight given to late-filed materials
  Business associations — Interim governance relief — Oppression remedy — Ontario Business Corporations Act, s. 248(3) — Whether monitor appointment orders should be amended to expand powers for forensic review, expense equalization, valuation, and sales process — Clean hands and workability assessed — Monitor findings on non-compliance considered — Motion to expand Monitor’s powers dismissed
  Business associations — Directors and officers — Interim removal — Ontario Business Corporations Act, s. 248(3), Courts of Justice Act, s. 101, RJR-MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General) — Whether interim removal justified based on oppression allegations and Monitor reports — Serious issue, irreparable harm, balance of convenience analysed — Officer and director removed, authority suspended and transferred, credit cards delivered
  Business associations — Corporate jurisdiction — Foreign subsidiaries — Ontario Business Corporations Act, s. 248(3) — Does the court have jurisdiction over non-OBCA corporations and their directors — Internal affairs governed by jurisdiction of incorporation — Non-party Barbados and Mexican corporations outside OBCA scope — Jurisdiction denied and order limited to OBCA Companies
• 2026-10-29 Far v. Koupal, 2026 ONSC 6117 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Procedure — Pleadings — Motion to amend application — Family Law Rules, O. Reg. 114/99, r. 11(3) — Whether amendment must be allowed unless it is plain and obvious it stands no chance of success — No reasonable cause of action for relief outside jurisdiction — Leave granted for tenable amendments, refused in part — Leave partly granted
  Family — Divorce proceeding — Religious divorce — Whether court has jurisdiction to compel a spouse to obtain an “Islamic Divorce” — Distinction between civil consequences and “quintessentially religious act” — Reliance on Bruker v. Marcovitz and Ontario authorities — Proposed paragraphs seeking compelled participation refused — Leave to plead religious divorce refused
  Statutory interpretation — Divorce Act and Family Law Act — Barriers to religious remarriage — Whether Divorce Act, s. 21.1 and Family Law Act, ss. 2(4) to (6) confer authority to compel a religious divorce — Court may prevent relief or strike pleadings for refusal to remove barriers — No statutory authority to order religious act — Amendment refused in part

Superior Court of Justice Divisional Court Recent Decisions

• 2026-11-02 Sterling O&G International Corporation v. Alamos Gold Inc., 2026 ONSC 6185 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Procedure — Civil procedure — Judicial review proceeding — Application seeking to set aside associate justice’s interlocutory order — Notice under Rules of Civil Procedure, r. 2.1.01(6) — Whether Divisional Court has jurisdiction to strike a counterclaim or order payment into court — Relief unavailable in this court — Proceeding dismissed
  Administrative law — Judicial review — Adequate alternative remedy — Courts of Justice Act, s. 17(a) appeal from interlocutory order of associate judge — Whether court should hear judicial review despite available appeal — Strickland v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 37 applied — Discretion declined — Application dismissed
  Procedure — Abuse of process — Summary dismissal — Rules of Civil Procedure, r. 2.1.01(1) — Whether application is frivolous and vexatious on its face — Proceeding seeking unavailable remedies and improper forum — Abuse of court’s process found — Summary dismissal ordered — Application dismissed
  Procedure — Representation — Corporate party representation — Order requiring corporation to appoint lawyer of record — Submissions prepared by non-lawyer representative reviewed despite no stay sought — Whether representative entitled to act in absence of stay — Submissions considered without altering representation requirement — Application dismissed
• 2026-11-02 Brown v. Town of Iroquois Falls, 2026 ONSC 5859 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Administrative law — Judicial review — Reviewable “decision” — Whether a clerk’s letter enforcing a resolution is subject to judicial review — Clerk lacked authority to amend or rescind a council resolution — Letter characterised as a reminder of the existing process — Application found to relate to the original council resolution — Application dismissed for delay
  Procedure — Judicial review — Delay — Whether a seven-year delay warrants dismissal of an application for judicial review — Effective public decision making requires proceedings without excessive delay — Delay characterised as excessive — Court exercised discretion to deny judicial review — Application dismissed for delay
  Procedure — Judicial review — Extension of time — Judicial Review Procedures Act, s. 5 — Whether time should be extended where there are apparent grounds for relief and no substantial prejudice — Applicant provided no apparent grounds for relief — No explanation for extraordinary delay accepted — Extension refused — Application dismissed for delay
  Procedure — Judicial review — Prejudice — Whether prejudice can be assumed from a many-year delay — Witnesses gone and employees moved on — Council composition changed and record retention not indicated — Finality for resolutions emphasised — Substantial prejudice inferred — Application dismissed for delay
• 2026-10-30 City of Windsor v. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of Essex County; Town of Tecumseh v. Belle River District Minor Hockey Association, 2026 ONSC 6012 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Procedure — Class proceedings — Class definition — Whether a class definition requires both a start date and an end date, express or implied — Leave motion limited to class definition issue — Appeal proceeds only on certified question — Costs reserved to appeal panel — Leave to appeal granted
  Procedure — Appeals — Leave to appeal — Whether leave to appeal should be granted from the motion judge’s decision — Leave granted on a single specified issue — Costs reserved to the panel hearing the appeal — Leave to appeal granted
• 2026-10-30 Satheeskumar et al v. Landlord and Tenant Board et al, 2026 ONSC 6144 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Lease and tenancy — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 — Termination for landlord’s family use — Bad faith notice of termination under s. 48(1)(c) — Whether requirements of s. 57(1)(a) met where parents never moved in — “Real substance” and good faith assessed over course of events — Compensation order upheld — Appeal dismissed
  Evidence — Appeal limited to errors of law — Weight and admissibility — Whether accepting an unsigned lease to prove increased rent raises an error of law — Distinction between weighing evidence and irrational reliance — Tenant identified lease and testified to rent paid — No jurisdiction to reweigh evidence — Appeal dismissed
  Procedure — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 — Bad faith compensation framework — Whether Board applied incorrect test by focusing beyond intention when notice served — Elkins v. Van Wissen applied to timing of bad faith assessment — s. 202(1) “real substance” and good faith inquiry not confined to notice date — No error of law — Appeal dismissed
  Administrative law — Procedural fairness — Tribunal control of hearing — Whether frequent interjections and limits on cross-examination breached fairness — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 183 expeditious process mandate — Statutory Powers Procedure Act, s. 15(1) authority to exclude unduly repetitious evidence — Adequate opportunity to be heard found — Appeal dismissed
• 2026-10-30 Lee v. Bush, 2026 ONSC 6146 (CanLII)
  Key Words: Lease and tenancy — Residential tenancies — Termination of tenancy — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 78(11) — Ex parte eviction order set aside — Whether it would not be unfair to set aside the order — Consideration of all the circumstances, including three-hour late rent payment and lack of prejudice — Appeal dismissed
  Administrative law — Procedural fairness — Tribunal process — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 183 — Whether procedural fairness was denied by ruling without closing submissions — Expeditious method and adequate opportunity to know the issues and be heard — Directed hearing and questioning permitted — Procedural fairness claim rejected — Appeal dismissed
  Lease and tenancy — Landlord and Tenant Board discretion — Guideline 7 factors — Whether the Board misinterpreted s. 78 by failing to apply Guideline 7 factors — “All the circumstances” under Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 78(11) — Weight given to three-hour delay, no cash flow impact, no prejudice, direct deposit intention — No error of law — Appeal dismissed
  Procedure — Appeals — Statutory right of appeal — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 210 — Whether the court has jurisdiction over an appeal from an interlocutory extension of time endorsement — Interlocutory orders not appealable and endorsement not appealed — No asserted prejudice at set aside or review — Jurisdiction declined — Appeal dismissed