ONTARIO – Where a Small Court judge rewrites the agreements between the parties without consideration for the words the parties used and fails to follow proper principles of contract construction, the judge commits an extricable error of law, for which the standard of appellate review is correctness.
Continue readingCASE #021D – CSI Toronto Car Systems Installation Ltd. v. Pittasoft Co., Ltd.
ONTARIO – On a motion to stay an action under ICAA, 2017, a party to an arbitration clause may be estopped by its prior conduct from relying on it.
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ONTARIO – Failure to raise an objection to an arbitrator’s jurisdiction at the outset of an arbitration precludes raising the objection after the arbitrator has decided the matter.
Continue readingCASE #019E – 2161907 Alberta Ltd. v. 11180673 Canada Inc.
ONTARIO – A judge’s finding that a party “pounced on a single statement as a basis to trigger default, thereby achieving its goal of ending the relationship” is not a breach of the organizing principle of good faith performance of contract and was set aside on appeal.
Continue readingCASE #018E – H.M.B. Holdings Ltd. v. Antigua and Barbuda
CANADA – A B.C. judgment is not enforceable in Ontario because the defendant was not carrying on business in B.C, as required by s. 3(b) of Ontario Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act.
Continue readingCASE #017D – Optiva Inc. v. Tbaytel
ONTARIO – An Arbitrator’s determination of the procedure to be followed in an arbitration includes the power to proceed by way of summary judgment without a party’s consent: Arbitration Act, 1991, ss. 20 and 26(1).
Continue readingCASE #016D – Battiston v Microsoft Canada Inc.
ONTARIO – Acceptance of the terms of a contract by clicking a box in an emailed link is notice of an agreement and binding, even though the recipient did not actually read the agreement. A party cannot take advantage of his own wrong.
Continue readingCASE #015D – China Yantai Friction Co. Ltd. v Novalex Inc.
Ontario – Where a respondent debtor to an application to enforce a foreign arbitral award fails to request that the award be set aside on one or more of the grounds in Art. 36 (1) of the UNCITRAL Model Law, an order for security for costs against the applicant creditor under Rule 56.01 may not be correct and leave to appeal should be granted.
Continue readingCASE #009E – Ontario First Nations (2008) Limited Partnership v. Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Ontario – The standard of review to be applied by a judge hearing an appeal from an arbitration award is reasonableness unless a legal principle is readily extricable. ONCA declined to consider whether the “reasonableness” standard of review is overtaken by “correctness” standard in Vavilov because that was not an issue necessary to decide this appeal.
Continue readingCASE #010D – Jencel 407 Yonge Street Inc. v Bright Immigration Inc. and Ramroop
Ontario – Court refuses to stay a proceeding in favour of arbitration when the case is a proper one for summary judgment and it would be unfair or impractical to refer the matter to arbitration – Arbitration Act, 1991, s.7(1)- (2).
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