Canada: Court Procedure

In Nigro v. Luciano, 2026 ONCA 283 (“Nigro”), the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiff dog-walker’s appeal of a decision dismissing her personal injury action for injuries...

The initial threshold of a motion to dismiss an action under Ontario’s anti‑SLAPP legislation is whether the proceeding arises from an expression relating to a matter of public interest.

Dans McCain Foods Limited v. J.R. Simplot Company, 2026 FCA 71 (« McCain Foods »), la Cour d’appel fédérale (« CAF »)...

The Federal Court of Appeal recently upheld limits on the Competition Bureau's investigative powers, ruling that production orders under the Competition Act must be reasonable in scope and cannot be excessively broad or burdensome. This decision arose from the Bureau's investigation into Amazon's handling of fake product reviews, where the court rejected a data request covering billions of products as insufficiently justified and disproportionate.

Contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and labourers in Alberta typically have only 60 days after completing the last work on a project to register a construction lien.

In prior posts, we have shared a number of insights from our Data-Driven Decisions program. Our work focuses on understanding how courts decide cases by identifying the factors associated with success...

As part of Lenczner Slaght's Data-Driven Decisions program, our readers know we maintain a comprehensive database capturing every Supreme Court of Canada leave decision since January 1, 2018.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of December 22.

We have closely tracked the Civil Rules Review Working Group and its mandate to overhaul Ontario's civil justice process.