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Cour supérieure de justice – Décisions récentes

• 2026-11-06 Nutri Sci 2000 Inc. v. McLean, 2026 ONSC 6263 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Contracts — Loans and advances — Characterisation of transaction — Whether advances were a personal loan or an investment or business loan — Payment orders marked “Business Loan” and “Investment” — Handwritten note described “short-term loan” with repayment timing — Conflicting evidence on parties’ intentions — Motion for summary judgment dismissed
  Procedure — Summary judgment — Rule 20.04, Rules of Civil Procedure — Whether there is no genuine issue requiring a trial — Hryniak framework and “best foot forward” principle — Record insufficient for credibility findings and necessary factual determinations — Enhanced fact-finding powers under r. 20.04(2.1) not used — Motion for summary judgment dismissed
  Contracts — Formation of contract — Oral agreement — Whether there was a meeting of the minds on essential terms — Offer, acceptance and consideration requirements — Uncertainty as to repayment terms and whether handwritten notes reflected agreement — Evidence did not establish intention to create a legally binding agreement — Matter left for trial — Motion for summary judgment dismissed
  Business associations — Corporate capacity — Agency and disclosure — Whether the Defendant acted personally or as agent for her company — Whether the Plaintiff knew or ought reasonably to have known it was dealing with a corporate entity — Transfers referencing “Star Apple Inc.” as beneficiary — Record unclear on why company was referenced and parties’ intentions — Trial required — Motion for summary judgment dismissed
• 2026-11-06 Vander Doelen v. Leighway Enterprises Inc., 2026 ONSC 6259 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Procedure — Security for costs — Rule 56 motion — Rule 56.01(1)(a) ordinarily resident outside Ontario — Whether threshold for security for costs met — Two-stage framework and onus-shifting described, Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation cited — Discretionary assessment of justness required — Motion dismissed
  Procedure — Security for costs — Delay — Delay in bringing motion for security for costs — Whether delay makes security unjust after litigation expense incurred — Pelz v. Anderson applied, plaintiff incurred significant resources including expert reports — Defendant reasonably knew plaintiff not resident in Ontario earlier — Security for costs refused
  Procedure — Security for costs — Frivolous and vexatious — Rule 56.01(1)(e) good reason to believe action frivolous and vexatious — Whether merits justify security where credibility contested — Court declines to weigh merits heavily and cannot make clear finding on record — Credibility issues noted, 2179548 ONTARIO INC. v. 2467925 ONTARIO INC. cited — Security for costs denied
  Procedure — Security for costs — Enforcing judgments — Whether ability to enforce Ontario judgment in British Columbia weighs against security — Enforcement of Canadian Judgments and Decrees Act and Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act referenced — Morguard Investments Ltd. v. De Savoye cited on interprovincial enforcement — Discretion informed by likely enforceability — Motion dismissed
• 2026-11-05 Sweda Farms Ltd. v. Egg Farmers of Ontario, 2026 ONSC 6256 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Procedure — Costs — Scale of costs — Whether substantial indemnity costs warranted for plaintiffs’ conduct — Substantial indemnity reserved for reprehensible, scandalous and outrageous conduct, Davies v. Clarington (Municipality) — Plaintiffs’ conduct found not to rise to misconduct — Partial indemnity costs awarded
  Procedure — Costs — Successful party — Whether defendants entitled to costs where security ordered was 76% of amount claimed — Defendants clearly successful in obtaining substantial security for costs order — Reduced result considered for potential reduction, not disentitlement — Plaintiffs to pay defendants’ costs — Costs awarded
  Procedure — Costs — Proportionality — Whether separate counsel caused unnecessary duplication and disproportionate costs — Defendants’ positions and trial costs not identical on a security for costs motion — One motion record and one factum served — Plaintiffs’ differentiated defence required responses — Partial indemnity amounts fixed
  Procedure — Costs — Entitlement — Whether Klei Defendants should be denied costs due to minimal visibility — Klei Defendants had their own costs to secure and were entitled to be present — Succeeded along with other defendants — Entitled to costs as a result — Partial indemnity costs awarded
• 2026-11-03 Nuve v. Nuve, 2026 ONSC 6215 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Property — Co-ownership — Tenants in common — Competing ownership shares under registered transfer — Whether ownership was intended as an equal 50/50 division — Agreement and reporting letter reflecting “each as to a 50% interest” weighed against transfer instrument — Declaration of equal ownership granted
  Procedure — Summary judgment — Rule 20 — Genuine issue for trial — Whether necessary facts can be found on the summary judgment record — Fact-finding powers under Rule 20.04(2.1), weighing evidence and limited credibility assessment — Record found complete and proportionate resolution favoured — Summary judgment granted
  Property — Land transfer — Instrument error — Whether registered transfer allocating two-thirds and one-third shares was a simple mistake — Initialled draft instrument contrasted with joint instructions and transaction documents — No record basis for unequal allocation despite alleged carrying costs — Erroneous allocation rejected — Equal division confirmed
  Limitation periods — Limitations Act, 2002 — Discoverability — Whether claim against the law firm was discovered earlier under ss. 4–5 — Rebuttable presumption in s. 5(2) addressed, including knowledge of act or omission and appropriateness of a proceeding — Layperson circumstances considered, Grant Thornton applied — Limitation defence rejected
  Civil liability — Solicitor negligence — Joint retainer — Whether the jointly retained lawyer must bear responsibility for the erroneous transfer document — Error in drafting or failure to review incorrect draft found, no genuine issue for trial on liability — Damages not assessed on the record and to be addressed by a trial of an issue — Summary judgment on liability granted, damages reserved for trial of an issue
• 2026-11-03 Craig et al v. Craig, 2026 ONSC 6220 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Estates and wills — Estate trustee — Fiduciary duty — Administration of estate assets — Whether estate trustee breached fiduciary duty by delaying sale of Property — Refusal to cooperate in open market sale, preference for personal interest — Standard of care and impartiality, duty to obtain fair market value — Breach of fiduciary duty found — Damages ordered
  Estates and wills — Remedies — Equitable compensation — Measure of loss — What is the fair and just remedy for breach of fiduciary duty causing decreased value — Appraisal evidence accepted as next best method where market exposure prevented — Reasonable inference of decline in value between 2022 and 2024 — Damages payable from respondent’s share of estate — Compensation ordered
  Trusts — Resulting trust — Joint bank accounts — Presumption and rebuttal — Whether surviving joint account holder proved valid inter vivos gift or rebutted resulting trust — Pecore v. Pecore presumption applied, donor intention at time of transfer required — Handwritten documents found ambiguous and not supportive — Funds declared estate asset — Declaration granted
  Evidence — Corroboration — Evidence Act — Scrutiny of gift claim — Whether corroborative evidence under s. 13 of the Evidence Act supports inter vivos gift asserted against deceased’s estate — Independence and reliability of niece and sons’ evidence assessed, allied witnesses and timing concerns — Handwritten notes analysed for corroboration — Gift not proven — Declaration granted

Cour divisionnaire - Décisions récentes

• 2026-11-06 Suarez Oria v. Farzan, 2026 ONSC 6054 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: applicability — reserved — temporary — interpretation — writing
• 2026-11-04 Platinum Cars Inc. et al v. Motor Vehicle Dealers Act, 2026 ONSC 6212 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Administrative law — Regulatory licensing — Motor vehicle dealer and salesperson registration — Notice of Proposal to revoke registrations upheld by Tribunal — Whether Appellants were entitled to registration under Motor Vehicle Dealers Act, 2002, s. 6(1)(a)(ii) and s. 6(1)(d)(iii) — Appeal dismissed
  Evidence — Appeal — Fresh evidence — Palmer v. The Queen test — Whether repair invoice should be admitted on appeal — Due diligence not shown, no interest of justice — Invoice would not have affected result given other findings — Motion for fresh evidence dismissed
  Procedure — Appeals — Appellate standards of review — Housen v. Nikolaisen palpable and overriding error — Whether Tribunal erred in factual findings on BMW coolant issue and adequacy of disclosure and responses — Appeal not a re-weighing of evidence — Ground of appeal dismissed
  Administrative law — Remedies and sanctions — Discretionary penalty on appeal — Whether revocation is clearly unfit or reflects an error in principle, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario v. Peirovy — Tribunal considered alternative sanctions and consumer protection — Revocation upheld, appeal dismissed
• 2026-11-04 Clegg v. Carleton Condo Corporation, 2026 ONSC 3094 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Administrative law — Appeals from tribunal — Question of law, jurisdiction — Condominium Act, 1998, s. 1.46(2) — Questions of law reviewed on correctness — Whether grounds of appeal improperly challenge findings of fact — Tribunal jurisdiction over governance decision to issue an updated PIC considered — Appeal dismissed with costs
  Access to information — Condominium records — Board meeting minutes, redaction — Condominium Act, 1998, cl. 55(4)(c) — Whether including a unit owner’s name in minutes violates cl. 55(4)(c) — Minutes as information about a legal dispute, not records relating to specific units or owners — No prohibition on disclosing party names in this context — Appeal dismissed
  Access to information — Information Certificates to Owners — Periodic Information Certificate adequacy — Condominium Act, 1998, s. 26.3, s. 11.2, O. Reg. 48/01, s. 11.1 — Whether updated PIC issuance and content contravened prescribed timing, form, and accuracy requirements — Governance issue and mixed fact and law not appealable as question of law — PIC found adequate — Appeal dismissed
  Procedure — Costs — Tribunal discretion — Tribunal Rules of Practice, Rule 48.2 — Whether Tribunal erred by referring to prior cases and warnings in fixing costs — Prior caution relevant to unreasonable behaviour and expectations of quantum — No impropriety in considering warnings for repeat litigant — Costs award upheld — Appeal dismissed with costs payable to respondent
• 2026-11-02 Brown v. Town of Iroquois Falls, 2026 ONSC 5859 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: 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
• 2026-11-02 Sterling O&G International Corporation v. Alamos Gold Inc., 2026 ONSC 6185 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: 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