Lerners LLP Partner, Carolyn Brandow, summarizes her picks for the Top 5 Decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal from March 2014.

  1. Kavanagh v. Lajoie, 2013 ONSC 7 - Court of Appeal speaking to what is required for an inter vivos gift to have actually been provided to another person.
  2. King Lofts Toronto I Ltd. v. Emmons, 2014 ONCA 215 (CanLII) - Ontario Court of Appeal upholding a Motions judge's decision in the granting of a summary judgment in favour of the plaintiffs on a motion that had been brought by the defendants based on a limitation period argument.
  3. Farwell v. Citair, Inc. (General Coach Canada), 2014 ONCA 177 (CanLII) - Ontario Court of Appeal considered the concept of efficient breach in employment law situations.
  4. Clarke v. Johnson, 2014 ONCA 237 (CanLII) - Court of Appeal considered, at length, the concept and principal of proprietary estoppel.
  5. Danecker v. Danecker, 2014 ONCA 239 - A Family Law Act case where the Ontario Court of Appeal considered the methodology used at trial to determine the valuation of a business and also whether in a Family Law Act Equalization Application it was proper to require one of the parties to buy-out the other.

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