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Cour supérieure de justice – Décisions récentes

• 2026-01-29 R v. Chan, 2026 ONSC 581 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing — Dangerous operation causing death — Fit sentence balancing denunciation and deterrence with mitigation — Application of Criminal Code, ss. 718, 718.1, 718.2 and s. 320.12 principles — Increased maximum penalty and Lojovic guidance considered — Aggravating and mitigating factors weighed — Two years imprisonment imposed
  Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing — Conditional sentence — Whether a conditional sentence is appropriate for dangerous driving causing death — Principle of restraint addressed under s. 718.2 — Nature and circumstances of offence and harm require actual custody — Community support and remorse acknowledged — Conditional sentence refused
  Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing — Ancillary orders — Whether to impose and for how long a driving prohibition — Denunciation and general deterrence for roadway safety emphasised — Prolonged inattention, speeding and prior speeding findings considered — Prohibition ordered nationwide — Fifteen‑year driving prohibition imposed
  Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing — Ancillary orders — Whether to make DNA order and s. 743.21 non‑communication order — Discretion to decline DNA despite absence of opposition — Protection of victims during sentence administration — Contact with victims restricted — DNA order refused and non‑communication order made
• 2026-01-29 Lochan. v. Binance Holdings Limited, 2026 ONSC 570 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Procedure — Injunctions — Anti-suit injunction — Whether serving Hong Kong AASI materials breaches the Ontario anti-suit injunction — Pursuit of an AASI is pursuit of the enjoined arbitrations — Service within Hague Service Convention considered a prohibited step — Mandatory injunction strictly enforced against Defendants and alter ego — Directions issued prohibiting service toward AASI — Relief refused
  Procedure — Parties — Intervention — Rule 13.01(1) — Is Nest’s intervention necessary after alter ego finding? — Nest and Defendants interchangeable for submissions and orders — Separate intervention unnecessary where entity subject to existing injunction — Court confirms prior finding and declines added party status — Intervention unnecessary
  International law — Private international law — Foreign proceedings and comity — Should directions permit steps toward Hong Kong arbitrations despite Ontario injunction? — Anti-anti-suit injunction sought to resume arbitrations declared void and unenforceable — No allowance for steps that advance foreign arbitrations — Ontario orders prevail pending appeal — Directions denying permission to proceed with AASI steps — Relief refused
• 2026-01-28 Gebremariam v. Menghesha, 2026 ONSC 545 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Statutory interpretation — Succession Law Reform Act, s. 21.1 — Electronic Commerce Act, 2000, s. 31 — Whether s. 21.1 and the ECA bar validation of an electronic document as a will — Functional Equivalency Rules considered but not determinative — Marginal notes given limited interpretive weight — No express or implied prohibition found — Validation of electronic document not prohibited
  Estates and wills — Validation of testamentary documents — Court’s curative power — Does the court have discretion under s. 21.1 to validate an electronic document as a fully effective testamentary document? — Requirements of authenticity and fixed and final intention highlighted — Modern approach to testamentary formalities acknowledged — Applicant entitled to continue application — Application permitted to continue
• 2026-01-27 Estate of Lascelles George Burnett v Heakes Housley, Barristers & Solicitors, 2026 ONSC 520 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Procedure — Security for costs — Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure — Whether prerequisites under r. 56.01(1)(d) and (e) are met — Insufficient assets and unpaid costs award established — Claim found frivolous and vexatious and plainly devoid of practical merit — Interests of justice considered, citing Yaiquaje v. Chevron Corp. — Security for costs ordered
  Procedure — Security for costs — Quantum and staging — What amount and tranches are just in the circumstances — Partial indemnity basis applied to discovery, mediation, pretrial and trial — Focused Hearing costs and expert fees excluded at this time — Deadlines tied to litigation milestones — Security fixed and staged
  Procedure — Costs — Motion — Should the defendants receive their costs of the motion — Draft bill of costs assessed — Partial indemnity amount and disbursements found fair and reasonable — Order to go in terms of amended draft order — Motion costs awarded
• 2026-01-27 Lacroix v. Plouffe, 2026 ONSC 523 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Family — Jurisdiction and forum — Courts of Justice Act, s. 21.8 — Whether proceeding for constructive or resulting trust or monetary award for unjust enrichment between persons who have cohabited must be commenced, heard and determined in the Family Court — Title and unjust enrichment issues within sole jurisdiction of Family Court — Matter transferred — Proceeding transferred to Family Court
  Trusts — Resulting trusts — Purchase money resulting trust — Whether cohabiting joint tenant who did not contribute to purchase price holds title on resulting trust — Presumption of resulting trust and rebuttal by intention at acquisition — Pecore v. Pecore, Nishi v. Rascal Trucking, MacIntyre v. Winter considered — No findings of fact made — Issues to be determined in Family Court
  Family — Unjust enrichment — Joint family venture — Whether unjust enrichment and joint family venture framework applies to unmarried spouses — Elements of benefit, corresponding deprivation and absence of juristic reason — Monetary award preferred, constructive trust only if monetary relief insufficient — Kerr v. Baranow framework adopted — Issues to be determined in Family Court
  Evidence — Affidavits — Late-filed affidavit — Whether affidavit filed outside timeline after cross-examination should be admitted — Importance of evidence of intention at time of acquisition in resulting trust context — No adjournment requested, both parties proceeded — Affidavit admitted

Cour divisionnaire - Décisions récentes

• 2026-01-29 Taghva v. MLYM INC., 2026 ONSC 401 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Lease and tenancy — Termination for illegal act — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 61(1) — Whether LTB erred in finding an “illegal act” without proof — Facts in notices of termination admitted through counsel — Conviction not required under s. 75 — Guilty plea to lesser offence and conditional discharge noted — No legal error shown — Appeal dismissed
  Lease and tenancy — Serious impairment of safety — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 66(1) — Whether conduct “seriously impaired the safety” without proof or witness testimony — Photographs of tenant holding what appeared to be a gun — Tenant’s testimony acknowledging threatening manner — Serious impairment includes risk of impairment per Divisional Court — No legal error shown — Appeal dismissed
  Procedure — Appeals from LTB — Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, s. 210 — Whether issues raised are questions of law — Standard of review for questions of law is correctness — Admissions at hearing cannot be challenged on appeal — Alleged misrepresentation by counsel unsupported — No errors of law demonstrated — Appeal dismissed
• 2026-01-27 Williamson v. Jones, 2026 ONSC 445 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Family — Child support — Adult child — Whether the parties’ adult son remained entitled to child support during June 1, 2023 to June 1, 2025 — Inability to become self‑supporting due to Autism Spectrum Disorder and learning disabilities — Attempts at post‑secondary education and subsequent layoff — Finding of mixed fact and law — Entitlement maintained — Appeal dismissed
  Evidence — Admissions — Affidavits — Does a later agreement not to seek child support after June 1, 2025 constitute a formal admission affecting the earlier period? — Agreement made without prejudice and without agreed facts — Age and timeframe differences noted — Motion judge entitled to accept affidavit evidence regarding disability and employment — Ground of appeal dismissed
  Procedure — Appeals — Standard of review — Court will interfere only for error of law or palpable and overriding error of fact — Findings characterised as mixed fact and law — Cases relied on distinguishable — Application of r. 2 of the Family Law Rules to decide cases justly and proportionately — No reviewable error established — Appeal dismissed
• 2026-01-26 Victor v. The Law Office of Joy Nwawe, 2026 ONSC 472 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Procedure — Appeals — Jurisdiction — Courts of Justice Act, s. 133 — Does the Divisional Court have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a costs order without leave? — Appeal lies only with leave where order below is costs — No right of appeal from reasons for decision — Notices of appeal challenge only costs order — Proceeding dismissed
  Procedure — Abuse of process — Rule 2.1 — Rules of Civil Procedure, r. 2.1.01(1) — Whether dismissal under r. 2.1 is warranted as frivolous, vexatious or abusive — Standard of clearest of cases applied, Scaduto v. Law Society of Upper Canada — Absence of jurisdiction renders proceeding abusive — Prior submissions considered under r. 2.1 notice — Proceeding dismissed
  Procedure — Scope of appeal — Relief from prior order — Can relief from a prior judge’s order be obtained within an appeal from a subsequent costs decision? — Attempt to set aside timetable and reinstatement sought within costs appeal — Prior order not properly challenged in these proceedings — Directions given to bring proper leave motion — Proceeding dismissed
• 2026-01-23 ITCAD Tech Inc. v. Patel et. al., 2026 ONSC 368 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Labour and employment — Punitive damages — Withholding earned compensation — Whether conduct met the Whiten threshold of reprehensibility — Implied duty of good faith and fair dealing referenced from employment law — Deterrence, denunciation and retribution considered under Boucher — Quantum at approximately fifty percent of withheld earnings — Appeal and cross‑appeal on punitive damages dismissed
  Contracts — Restrictive covenants — Non‑competition — Enforceability at common law for independent contractor placed through vendor of record — Whether a 12‑month restriction limited to one MOH branch was reasonable — Use of covenant to circumvent loss of vendor status contrary to public interest — Extricable legal error found — Restrictive covenant unenforceable — Counterclaim dismissed
• 2026-01-23 Robinson v. The Corporation of the City of Pickering, 2026 ONSC 451 (CanLII)
  Mots-clés: Administrative law — Procedural fairness and bias — Municipal integrity regime — Was the process before the Integrity Commissioner and City Council procedurally fair and free from bias? — Opportunity to respond provided and considered — Council limited to sanction under Municipal Act, 2001, s. 223.4(5) — Code s. 18.04 made factual determinations final and binding — Bias not raised below, claim fatal — Application dismissed
  Procedure — Judicial review — Record and new evidence — Are materials not before the decision‑makers admissible on judicial review? — Exception for procedural fairness evidence noted — Scott v. Toronto, 2021 ONSC 858 applied — Applicant failed to justify admission — Extension of time under Judicial Review Procedure Act granted — Extra‑record materials excluded
  Administrative law — Reasonableness review — Factual findings — Were the Integrity Commissioner’s findings unreasonable under Vavilov? — Court will not interfere absent exceptional circumstances — Findings that statements were categorically false or deliberately misrepresented policy — Conclusions available on the record — Canada v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 referenced — Application dismissed
  Rights and freedoms — Charter — Freedom of expression and equality — Did the 90‑day suspension of pay infringe ss. 2(b) and 15? — Issues not raised before Integrity Commissioner and no record for s. 15 — Speech not at the core given categorically false and deliberately misrepresented statements — Proportionate limit implied in context — Charter claims dismissed