COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (April 17, 2023 – April 21, 2023)

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John Polyzogopoulos
Blaney McMurtry LLP
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Ines Ferriera
Blaney McMurtry LLP
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Desk of Contents

Civil Selections

Husky Meals Importers & Vendors Ltd. v. JH Whittaker & Sons Restricted, 2023 ONCA 260

Key phrases: Contracts, Arbitration Agreements, Civil Process, Orders, Keep of Lawsuits, Appeals, Jurisdiction, Ultimate Order Interlocutory, Global Business Arbitration Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, c. 2, Sch. 5, s. 9, Arbitration Act, 1991, S.O. 1991, c. 17, ss. 7, 17(1), Smith Property v. Nationwide Cash Mart Corporate, 2008 ONCA 746, Griffin v. Dell Canada, 2010 ONCA 29, Huras v. Primerica Monetary Products and services Ltd. (2000), 137 O.A.C. 79 (C.A.), Dell Pc Corp. v. Union des consommateurs, 2007 SCC 34, Rogers Wi-fi Inc. v. Muroff, 2007 SCC 35, Uber Applied sciences Inc. v. Heller, 2020 SCC 16, Peace River Hydro Companions v. Petrowest Corp., 2022 SCC 41, Seidel v. TELUS Communications Inc., 2011 SCC 15, Haas v. Gunasekaram, 2016 ONCA 744, Sum Business Corp. v. Agricom Global Inc., 2018 BCCA 379, Gulf Canada Sources Ltd. v. Arochem Global Ltd. (1992), 66 B.C.L.R. (2nd) 113 (C.A.), Business Finance Answers Inc. v. Equinox World Restricted, 2018 ONCA 12, Dancap Productions Inc., v. Key Logo Leisure, Inc., 2009 ONCA 135, Dalimpex Ltd. v. Janicki (2003), 64 O.R. (3d) 737 (C.A.)

Jewish Basis of Higher Toronto (Re), 2023 ONCA 268

Key phrases: Chapter and Insolvency, Charities, Donations, Acts of Chapter, Failing to Meet Liabilities as they Transform Due, Civil Process, Placing Pleadings, Decision of Factor Ahead of Trial, Abuse of Procedure, No Cheap Explanation for Motion, Prices, Chapter and Insolvency Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3, Laws of Civil Process, r. 21, Frazer v. Haukioja, 2010 ONCA 249, Dallas/North Staff Inc. (Re) (2001), 148 O.A.C. 288

Mahjoub v. Canada (Public Protection and Emergency Preparedness), 2023 ONCA 259

Key phrases: Immigration Regulation, Refugees, Deportation, Human Rights, Constitutional Regulation, Habeas Corpus, Civil Process, Jurisdiction, Peiroo Exception, Canadian Constitution of Rights and Freedoms, ss. 7, 9 and 12, Immigration and Refugee Coverage Act, S.C. 2001, c. 27, s. 76, s. 78, s. 79, s. 81, s. 82(1), s. 82.1(1), s. 82(2), s. 82(4), s. 82(5), s. 82.3, s. 83(1)(b), s. 83(1)(c), s. 85.1(1), s. 85.1(2), s. 115(1), s. 115(2)(b), Federal Courts Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-7, s. 17(1), Charkaoui v. Canada, 2007 SCC 9, Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Harkat, 2014 SCC 37, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 1092, Mahjoub v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2017 FCA 157, Peiroo v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) (1989), 69 O.R.(2nd) 253 (C.A.), Canada (Public Protection and Emergency Preparedness) v. Chhina, 2019 SCC 29, Might v. Ferndale Establishment, 2005 SCC 82, Venture Establishment v. Khela, 2014 SCC 24, R. v. Graham, 2011 ONCA 138, R. v. Sarson, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 223, R. v. Gamble, [1988] 2 S.C.R. 595, R. v. Chicken, 2019 SCC 7, Chaudhary v. Canada (Minister of Public Protection & Emergency Preparedness), 2015 ONCA 700, R. v. Zundel, 2003 CanLII 23552 (Ont. S.C.), Mahjoub (Re), 2014 FC 720, Harkat v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2013 FC 795, Mahjoub (Re), 2011 FC 506, Canada (MCI) v. Mahjoub, 2012 FC 125, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 10, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 1257, Mahjoub (Re), 2014 FC 720, Mahjoub (Re), 2015 FC 1232, Mahjoub (Re), 2016 FC 808, Mahjoub (Re), 2017 FC 603, Mahjoub (Re), 2017 FC 334, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 10

Lindsay v. Verge Insurance coverage Agents Ltd., 2023 ONCA 263

Key phrases: Breach of Contract, Employment, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53, Nook Brook (Town) v. Bailey, 2021 SCC 29, Cronos Staff Inc. v. Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A, 2022 ONCA 525

Soave v. Stahle Development Inc., 2023 ONCA 265

Key phrases: Contracts, Interpretation, Same old of Evaluation, Employment, Insurance coverage, Protection, Lengthy-Time period Incapacity, Civil Process, Documentary Discovery, Affidavits of Paperwork, Trial, Proof, Admissibility, Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43, s. 134, Laws of Civil Process, rr. 30.08(1)(a), 53.08(1), 1162740 Ontario Restricted v. Pingue, 2017 ONCA 583, Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53, Ledcor Development Ltd. v. Northbridge Indemnity Insurance coverage Co., 2016 SCC 37

Truscott v. Co-Operators Normal Insurance coverage Corporate, 2023 ONCA 267

Key phrases: Contracts, Insurance coverage, Fireplace, Protection, Torts, Negligence, Defamation, Inducing Breach of contract, Intentional Interference with Financial Members of the family, Breach of Responsibility of Just right Religion and Honest Dealings, Legal responsibility of Staff, Vicarious Legal responsibility, Civil Process, Partial Abstract Judgment, Placing Pleadings, No Cheap Explanation for Motion, Insurance coverage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. I.8, s. 128, s. 148, Statutory Situation 6, Statutory Situation 11, Laws of Civil Process, rr. 5.03(1), 21.01(1)(b), Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, Baywood Houses Partnership v. Haditaghi, 2014 ONCA 450, Butera v. Chown, Cairns LLP, 2017 ONCA 783, Addison Chevrolet Buick GMC Ltd. v. Normal Motors of Canada Ltd., 2016 ONCA 324, Kang v. Solar Existence Assurance Corporate of Canada, 2013 ONCA 118, Correia v. Canac Kitchens, 2008 ONCA 506, ADGA Techniques Global Ltd. v. Valcom Ltd. (1999), 43 O.R. (3d) 101 (C.A.), Sataur v. Starbucks Espresso Canada Inc., 2017 ONCA 1017, Northbridge Normal Insurance coverage Corp. v. Ashcroft Houses-Capital Hill Inc., 2021 ONSC 1684, Aviva Insurance coverage v. Cunningham et al., 2022 ONSC 6331, Desjardins Normal Insurance coverage Staff v. Campbell, 2022 ONCA 128, Rizzo & Rizzo Footwear Ltd. (Re), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 27, Smith v. Co-operators Normal Insurance coverage Co., 2002 SCC 30, Campbell v. Desjardins, 2020 ONSC 6630, aff’d partially, 2022 ONCA 128, Senator Actual Property v. Intact Insurance coverage, 2021 ONSC 200, Blackwater v. Plint, 2005 SCC 58, Trillium Energy Wind Corp. v. Ontario (Ministry of Herbal Sources), 2013 ONCA 683

Wong v. Lui , 2023 ONCA 272

Key phrases:

Torts, Negligence, Public Government, Negligent Inspection, Statutory Interpretation, Undeniable Which means, Legislative Goal, Civil Process, Limitation Sessions, Final Limitation Duration, Capability, Minors, Decision of Factor Ahead of Trial, Barriers Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B, ss. 6, 7, 15(2), 15(4)(b), Barriers Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 240, s. 47, Development Code, O. Reg. 332/12, Statute of Merton, 1235, 20 Rooster. 3, c.1, c.8, Statute of Barriers, 1540, 32 Rooster. 8, c.2, Statute of Barriers, 1623, 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, Laws of Civil Process, rr. 1.03, 7.01(1), 21.01(1)(a), York Rental Company No. 382 v. Jay-M Holdings Restricted, 2007 ONCA 49, Carmichael v. GlaxoSmithKline Inc., 2020 ONCA 447, Rizzo & Rizzo Footwear Ltd. (Re), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 27, Deaville v. Boegeman (1984), 14 D.L.R. (4th) 81 (Ont. C.A.), Sable Offshore Power Inc. v. Canada (Customs and Income Company), 2003 FCA 220, Canaccord Capital Company v. Roscoe, 2013 ONCA 378, Levesque v. Crampton Property, 2017 ONCA 455, McLean v. British Columbia (Securities Fee), 2013 SCC 67, Papamonolopoulos v. Board of Training for the Town of Toronto (1986), 56 O.R. (2nd) 1 (C.A.), Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. v. Canada (Lawyer Normal), 2013 SCC 14, Mumford v. Well being Sciences Centre (1987), 92 D.L.R. (3d) 64 (Guy. C.A.), Stoddard v. Watson, [1993] 2 SCR 1069, Novak v. Bond, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 808, Bisoukis v. Brampton (Town) (1999), 46 O.R. (3d) 417 (C.A.), R. v. D.L.W., 2016 SCC 22, Azzeh (Litigation Dad or mum of) v. Legendre, 2017 ONCA 385, Baig v. Mississauga, 2020 ONCA 697, Ruth Sullivan, The Development of Statutes, seventh ed (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2022), at §2.03, Williams, Limitation of Movements in Canada, second ed (Toronto: Butterworths, 1980), at p. 24, William Ballentine, A Treatise at the Statute of Barriers (New York: C. Wiley, 1812), at p. 9, Henricus de Bractona, De legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Quantity 2 (c. 1210-1268), Graeme Mew, The Regulation of Barriers, third ed (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2016), at p. 4, Barriers Act Session Staff, Suggestions for a New Barriers Act: Record of the Barriers Act Session Staff (Toronto: Ministry of the Lawyer Normal, 1991) at 1, Peter St. John Langan, Maxwell at the Interpretation of Statutes, twelfth ed (London: Candy & Maxwell, 1969) at p. 116

Brief Civil Selections

KVM Investments Restricted v. Isabella, 2023 ONCA 278

Key phrases: Civil Process, Abstract Judgment, Prices, KVM Investments Restricted v. Isabella, 2022 ONSC 4125

Molani Property v. Iran, 2023 ONCA 279

Key phrases: Civil Process, Elegance Lawsuits, Opting-Out, Litigation Guardians, Interlocutory Orders, Divitaris v. Gerstel, 2022 ONCA 60, Huang v. Braga, 2017 ONCA 268, 30 E.T.R. (4th) 19, Should v. Shkuryna, 2015 ONCA 665, Willmot v. Benton, 2011 ONCA 104

Siebold v. Lawand, 2023 ONCA 276

Key phrases: Civil Process, Warfare of Rules, Overseas Judgments, Reputation, Enforcement, Adjournment, Prejudice, Judicial Discretion

Youngsters’s Assist Society of London and Middlesex v. T.E., 2023 ONCA 270

Key phrases:Circle of relatives Regulation, Kid Coverage, Civil Process, Appeals, Prices, Circle of relatives Regulation Laws, O.Reg.114/99, Youngsters’s Assist Society of the Area of Peel v. L.M., 2022 ONCA 379, Selznick v. Selznick, 2013 ONCA 35

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CIVIL DECISIONS

Husky Meals Importers & Vendors Ltd. v. JH Whittaker & Sons Restricted , 2023 ONCA 260

[Fairburn A.C.J.O., Brown and Sossin JJ.A]

Suggest:

L.L. Dizgun and A. Fischer, for the appellant
L. Tomasich and A. Korajlija, for the respondent

Key phrases: Contracts, Arbitration Agreements, Civil Process, Orders, Keep of Lawsuits, Appeals, Jurisdiction, Ultimate Order Interlocutory, Global Business Arbitration Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, c. 2, Sch. 5, s. 9, Arbitration Act, 1991, S.O. 1991, c. 17, ss. 7, 17(1), Smith Property v. Nationwide Cash Mart Corporate, 2008 ONCA 746, Griffin v. Dell Canada, 2010 ONCA 29, Huras v. Primerica Monetary Products and services Ltd. (2000), 137 O.A.C. 79 (C.A.), Dell Pc Corp. v. Union des consommateurs, 2007 SCC 34, Rogers Wi-fi Inc. v. Muroff, 2007 SCC 35, Uber Applied sciences Inc. v. Heller, 2020 SCC 16, Peace River Hydro Companions v. Petrowest Corp., 2022 SCC 41, Seidel v. TELUS Communications Inc., 2011 SCC 15, Haas v. Gunasekaram, 2016 ONCA 744, Sum Business Corp. v. Agricom Global Inc., 2018 BCCA 379, Gulf Canada Sources Ltd. v. Arochem Global Ltd. (1992), 66 B.C.L.R. (2nd) 113 (C.A.), Business Finance Answers Inc. v. Equinox World Restricted, 2018 ONCA 12, Dancap Productions Inc., v. Key Logo Leisure, Inc., 2009 ONCA 135, Dalimpex Ltd. v. Janicki (2003), 64 O.R. (3d) 737 (C.A.)

details:

In overdue 2014, the events entered into an preliminary distribution association beneath which the appellant would import, distribute, and marketplace the respondent’s merchandise in Canada. The phrases of the association have been section oral and section written. Between 2016 and 2020, the events sought to barter a proper, long-term, unique distribution settlement (the “Settlement”). After the primary trade of drafts in early 2020, the respondent despatched a red-lined model on April 19, 2020, which added an arbitration clause in favour of the New Zealand Global Arbitration Centre. The arbitration clause used to be situated in Agenda G of the draft Settlement.

On Might 15, 2020, the appellant replied with a “somewhat” revised model, and mentioned that this model were signed off on. Probably the most additions made by means of the appellant on this draft used to be a time period declaring that the primary frame of the Settlement used to be paramount to any agenda thereto. Each and every of the 2 newest drafts that have been circulated contained a clause in the primary frame of the Settlement which mentioned that the events attorned to the courts of Wellington, New Zealand to resolve all disputes bobbing up from the Settlement. A dispute arose in the summertime of 2020 previous to the events signing the Settlement. The appellant introduced an Motion in Ontario, and pleaded that the events “reached an settlement on all subject matter phrases”.
The respondent moved to stick the motion beneath s. 9 of the Global Business Arbitration Act (“ICAA”), which states that, pursuant to article II(3) of the New York Conference at the Reputation and Enforcement of Overseas Arbitral Awards or article 8 of the UNCITRAL Style Regulation on Global Business Arbitration (the “Style Regulation”), the lawsuits of the courtroom are stayed with recognize to the issues to which the arbitration relates. The respondent adverse the keep movement, filing that the events by no means agreed to arbitrate disputes bobbing up from the Settlement. The movement pass judgement on granted the movement and stayed the motion in favour of arbitration.

problems:

(1) Did the Court docket have jurisdiction to listen to the enchantment?
(2) Did the movement pass judgement on err in making use of the “controversial” usual with recognize as to whether an arbitration settlement existed?
(3) Did the movement pass judgement on err in figuring out that it used to be controversial that an arbitration settlement existed?

maintaining:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

(1) Sure.

The respondent argued that the order staying the motion used to be interlocutory in nature and, subsequently, an enchantment didn’t misinform the Court docket. The Court docket disagreed, noting that an order granting a keep beneath s. 9 of the ICAA successfully ends the motion earlier than the courtroom. Moreover, a number of fresh selections reaffirmed the main that demanding situations to an arbitrator’s jurisdiction are most often decided by means of the arbitrator. Due to this fact, the correct characterization of the keep order used to be that it used to be ultimate in nature for the aim of figuring out the enchantment course.

(2) No.

Each the ICAA and the Style Regulation equipped the mechanism in which a celebration can search to stick a courtroom continuing in favour of referring the dispute to arbitration. The framework for figuring out if the arbitration settlement engaged the required keep provisions used to be lately reaffirmed by means of the Very best Court docket of Canada in Peace River Hydro Companions v. Petrowest Corp. (“Peace River”). There will have to be the (1) technical must haves for a compulsory keep, and (2) loss of statutory exceptions. As mentioned in Peace River, the technical must haves for the transferring celebration to turn out are that: (a) an arbitration settlement existed, (b) the courtroom lawsuits were commenced by means of a celebration to the arbitration settlement, (c) the courtroom lawsuits have been in recognize of a question that the events agreed to put up to arbitration, and (d) the celebration making use of for a keep in favour of arbitration did so earlier than taking any “step” within the courtroom lawsuits.

The appellant argued that the celebration transferring for a keep will have to display, on a steadiness of possibilities, that an arbitration settlement existed. Because of this, the movement pass judgement on erred by means of making use of a decrease usual of whether or not it used to be “controversial” that an arbitration settlement existed. The Court docket disagreed, noting that Peace River expressly authorized of the “controversial case” usual with recognize to the technical must haves. Due to this fact, the Court docket held that the movement pass judgement on didn’t err in making use of the controversial case usual as to whether there used to be an arbitration settlement.

(3) No.

The appellant argued that the movement pass judgement on made a palpable and overriding error in maintaining that it used to be controversial at the listing that an settlement to arbitrate existed between the events. In fortify of its argument, the appellant submitted that: (a) it got rid of an arbitration clause from pre-2020 drafts of the Settlement, and (b) it inserted language into the Might 15, 2020 draft that resolved any inconsistency between a time period within the Schedules and a time period in the primary frame of the Settlement in favour of the latter.

The Court docket held that the movement pass judgement on didn’t err in figuring out that it used to be controversial that an arbitration settlement existed. The listing earlier than the movement pass judgement on contained proof that used to be opposite to the appellant’s submissions. First, the Ontario motion commenced by means of the appellant used to be predicated at the foundation that there used to be if truth be told a negotiated Settlement. 2d, the affiants for the appellant deposed that the adjustments made by means of the respondent within the April 19, 2020 draft have been accredited. 3rd, the appellant made revisions within the Might 15, 2020 draft and obviously got rid of different monitor adjustments. It opted to stay the arbitration clause.

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Jewish Basis of Higher Toronto (Re), 2023 ONCA 268

[Lauwers, Paciocco and Thorburn JJ.A.]

Suggest:

W. Jaskiewicz and M. Ly, for the appellant The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Basis

M. P. Gottlieb, P. Fruitman and X. Li, for the respondent Jewish Basis of Higher Toronto

Key phrases: Chapter and Insolvency, Charities, Donations, Acts of Chapter, Failing to Meet Liabilities as they Transform Due, Civil Process, Placing Pleadings, Decision of Factor Ahead of Trial, Abuse of Procedure, No Cheap Explanation for Motion, Prices, Chapter and Insolvency Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3, Laws of Civil Process, r. 21, Frazer v. Haukioja, 2010 ONCA 249, Dallas/North Staff Inc. (Re) (2001), 148 O.A.C. 288

details:

The appellant used to be a non-share capital company designated by means of the Canada Income Company as a non-public basis. The appellant donated to the respondent via a donor steered fund (“DAF”). As soon as donated, the DAF become a part of the respondent’s property, which it then invested and disbursed to charities. Between 2011 and 2016, the appellant donated over $19 million to the DAF. The appellant gained an acknowledgement confirming each and every donation as an irrevocable present.

A DAF can designate an marketing consultant to counsel distributions, however the recipient isn’t required to practice or believe the ones suggestions. In a while after the demise of the appellant’s main, JL, his brother, WL, advised the respondent to distribute the remainder price range within the DAF to express named charities. When the respondent didn’t practice his directions, the appellant commenced an motion towards the respondent, looking for an order compelling the respondent to make the distributions. That continuing used to be ongoing on the time this utility used to be heard.

The appellant introduced the applying underlying this enchantment beneath the Chapter and Insolvency Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3 (“BIA”). The foundation for the applying used to be that the respondent had ceased to satisfy its liabilities most often as they got here due, and that it had failed to satisfy its responsibilities to the appellant within the six months previous the submitting of the applying. The respondent introduced a movement to brush aside the applying as frivolous and elevating no cheap reason for motion.

The movement pass judgement on granted the movement and pushed aside the applying as elevating no cheap reason for motion beneath the BIA, as a result of there used to be no proof of a debt, nor any act of chapter, nor particular cases that might justify granting a single-creditor utility. The movement pass judgement on ordered the appellant to pay increased prices to the respondent of $100,000.

problems:

1. Did the movement pass judgement on err to find that the applying had no benefit?
2. Did the movement pass judgement on err in her prices award?

maintaining:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No

The appellant submitted that the respondent’s complete operation will have to were matter to successfully a full-scale audit to resolve whether or not any of the appellant’s allegations have been true. The Court docket rejected the appellant’s argument and mentioned that this used to be no longer the aim of the BIA.

The Court docket agreed with the movement pass judgement on that the appellant’s declare had no benefit, and that the appellant had failed to spot any palpable or overriding error of reality or legislation within the movement pass judgement on’s choice.

2. No

The Court docket discovered no reason why to intervene with the prices award. The Court docket held that the movement pass judgement on had awarded prices in line with her discovering that the declare used to be an abuse of procedure, and that this discovering used to be entitled to deference. Additional, the Court docket held that the movement pass judgement on used to be alive to the reputational considerations of the respondent, and had as it should be regarded as them in solving prices.

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Mahjoub v. Canada (Public Protection and Emergency Preparedness) , 2023 ONCA 259

[Feldman, Hoy and Favreau JJ.A.]

Suggest:

P. Slansky, Y. Hameed, and N. Pope, for the appellant
M. Zorić, J. Provart and M. Keramati, for the respondent

Key phrases: Immigration Regulation, Refugees, Deportation, Human Rights, Constitutional Regulation, Habeas Corpus, Civil Process, Jurisdiction, Peiroo Exception, Canadian Constitution of Rights and Freedoms, ss. 7, 9 and 12, Immigration and Refugee Coverage Act, S.C. 2001, c. 27, s. 76, s. 78, s. 79, s. 81, s. 82(1), s. 82.1(1), s. 82(2), s. 82(4), s. 82(5), s. 82.3, s. 83(1)(b), s. 83(1)(c), s. 85.1(1), s. 85.1(2), s. 115(1), s. 115(2)(b), Federal Courts Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-7, s. 17(1), Charkaoui v. Canada, 2007 SCC 9, Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Harkat, 2014 SCC 37, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 1092, Mahjoub v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2017 FCA 157, Peiroo v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) (1989), 69 O.R.(2nd) 253 (C.A.), Canada (Public Protection and Emergency Preparedness) v. Chhina, 2019 SCC 29, Might v. Ferndale Establishment, 2005 SCC 82, Venture Establishment v. Khela, 2014 SCC 24, R. v. Graham, 2011 ONCA 138, R. v. Sarson, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 223, R. v. Gamble, [1988] 2 S.C.R. 595, R. v. Chicken, 2019 SCC 7, Chaudhary v. Canada (Minister of Public Protection & Emergency Preparedness), 2015 ONCA 700, R. v. Zundel, 2003 CanLII 23552 (Ont. S.C.), Mahjoub (Re), 2014 FC 720, Harkat v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2013 FC 795, Mahjoub (Re), 2011 FC 506, Canada (MCI) v. Mahjoub, 2012 FC 125, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 10, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 1257, Mahjoub (Re), 2014 FC 720, Mahjoub (Re), 2015 FC 1232, Mahjoub (Re), 2016 FC 808, Mahjoub (Re), 2017 FC 603, Mahjoub (Re), 2017 FC 334, Mahjoub (Re), 2013 FC 10

details:

The appellant, MM, got here to Canada from Egypt and used to be granted refugee standing. MM has since been discovered to pose a danger to Canada’s nationwide safety and has been matter to a deportation order.

Ahead of the deportation order might be applied, the respondent, the Minister of Public Protection and Emergency Preparedness (the “Minister”), needed to whole a Threat Opinion to resolve the level of the danger MM posed and whether or not he will have to be deported. Within the interim, MM used to be no longer in detention, however he used to be matter to more than a few prerequisites of liberate. The newest model of his prerequisites of liberate used to be in line with a consent order made by means of the Federal Court docket in 2021.

After the consent order used to be made, MM introduced an utility for habeas corpus within the Ontario Awesome Court docket of Justice looking for to be relieved from his prerequisites of liberate. At the utility for habeas corpus, MM sought to argue that the period and indefinite time period he were matter to the prerequisites imposed on his liberty breached his rights beneath ss. 7, 9 and 12 of the Canadian Constitution of Rights and Freedoms (the “Constitution”).

The Minister introduced a movement to stick the applying at the foundation that the Awesome Court docket didn’t have jurisdiction or, on the other hand, that the Awesome Court docket will have to have declined to listen to the applying. The movement pass judgement on granted the movement and stayed MM’s utility for habeas corpus. Whilst the movement pass judgement on discovered that the Awesome Court docket has jurisdiction to grant habeas corpus in reference to an order made by means of the Federal Court docket, he held that it used to be suitable to stick the applying on this case since the utility fell inside of each identified cases the place a Awesome Court docket will have to refuse to entertain an utility for habeas corpus. First, the movement pass judgement on discovered that MM had a suitable enchantment course beneath the Immigration and Refugee Coverage Act (the “IRPA”) to problem the Federal Court docket order enforcing his prerequisites of liberate. 2d, the movement pass judgement on held that the evaluate process beneath the IRPA constituted a whole, complete and skilled statutory scheme which equipped for a evaluate no less than as vast as that to be had by means of habeas corpus, and no much less tremendous (known as the “Peiroo exception”).

MM appealed the keep of his utility for habeas corpus at the grounds that the movement pass judgement on erred to find that the Awesome Court docket will have to decline to listen to the applying in line with either one of those exceptions.

problems:

1. Does the Awesome Court docket have jurisdiction over the applying for habeas corpus?
2. Did the movement pass judgement on err to find that MM had a proper of enchantment from his prerequisites of liberate and that this sort of proper of enchantment will have to preclude him from bringing the applying?
3. Did the movement pass judgement on err to find that the safety scheme beneath the IRPA is as tremendous as habeas corpus and that the Peiroo exception will have to subsequently preclude him from bringing the applying?

maintaining:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

Reasoning:

1. Sure.

On a initial word, the Awesome Court docket’s choice whether or not to say no habeas corpus at the foundation of a identified exception is discretionary. Accordingly, the Court docket will best intervene with the movement pass judgement on’s choice if he made an error of legislation or theory, or if he made a palpable and overriding error of reality or combined reality and legislation.

The Court docket held that there is not any blanket theory that the Awesome Court docket can not grant habeas corpus in terms of an order made by means of the Federal Court docket. The Court docket clarified that, whilst habeas corpus is most often no longer to be had in a single awesome courtroom to vary or assault an order made by means of some other awesome courtroom, a identified exception is the place the applicant seeks to determine, as right here, {that a} detention is against the law as it breaches the applicant’s Constitution rights. Within the Court docket’s view, given the grounds on which MM sought habeas corpus, the truth that he sought to problem restrictions on his liberty imposed by means of the Federal Court docket by itself didn’t preclude the Ontario Awesome Court docket from taking into account his utility.

2. Sure.

Within the Court docket’s view, the movement pass judgement on erred when he discovered that s. 82.3 of the IRPA gave MM a proper of enchantment that might permit the Federal Court docket of Enchantment to proper any mistakes made by means of the Federal Court docket. The burden of government means that the primary exception to the provision of habeas corpus (whether or not an enchantment course exists) best applies within the felony context. The Court docket discovered that s. 82.3 best offers MM a proper of enchantment from a call reviewing the prerequisites of his liberate “if the pass judgement on certifies {that a} critical query of common significance is concerned and states the query”. Due to this fact, as a precondition to an enchantment, a Federal Court docket pass judgement on acts as a gate keeper and best critical questions of common significance can be referred to the Federal Court docket of Enchantment. Accordingly, the Court docket held, despite the fact that MM had legitimate grounds of enchantment bobbing up from the precise cases of his case, the Federal Court docket of Enchantment would best listen the enchantment if a Federal Court docket pass judgement on used to be glad that his enchantment raised a significant query of common significance. This situation used to be no longer the similar form of enchantment to be had beneath the Felony Code, to proper mistakes particular to a person particular person’s conviction.

3. No.

The Court docket agreed with the movement pass judgement on’s discovering that the correct lens during which the Court docket will have to have a look at the topic used to be best throughout the Peiroo exception, which used to be in particular advanced to handle the provision of habeas corpus within the immigration context. The Court docket defined that the Federal Court docket is to believe the total period of the detention or the period of time of the prerequisites of liberate imposed when engaging in a evaluate. As an example, the Federal Court docket is to have a look at the passage of time and the uncertainty of the long run. Due to this fact, the Court docket discovered, whilst s. 82.1(1) of the IRPA specifies {that a} pass judgement on has the facility to change an order on evaluate the place they’re glad that there was a “subject matter exchange within the cases that ended in the order”, the take a look at advanced beneath this provision is retrospective in addition to potential, and permits the courtroom to have a look at the total period of the prerequisites of detention.

The Court docket seemed on the Federal Court docket’s evaluate selections it and used to be no longer glad with MM’s argument that the Federal Court docket refused to check the total period or unsure long run of his restrictions. which a courtroom is remitted to believe.

If the applying for habeas corpus have been allowed to continue within the Awesome Court docket, the pass judgement on of that courtroom wouldn’t have the authority to believe the entire proof that can be related to figuring out whether or not the period of time MM has been matter to prerequisites and the character of the ones prerequisites used to be justified. As an example, there is also an affordable cause of the extend in engaging in the Threat Opinion, however the clarification is also in line with data that can not be launched to the general public on account of problems with nationwide safety or as it poses a chance to others. As well as, the particular recommend machine is best to be had within the Federal Court docket machine.

The Court docket identified that its reasoning used to be similar to pronouncing that the Awesome Court docket does no longer have jurisdiction over an utility for habeas corpus in instances involving safety certificate. Given the Federal Court docket’s unique jurisdiction over the guidelines and proof related to problems with nationwide safety, programs for habeas corpus within the safety context will most likely certainly be most often unavailable. Spotting the elemental significance of habeas corpus in protective liberty pursuits, the Court docket made transparent that this choice didn’t foreclose the chance that this sort of case may continue by means of an utility for habeas corpus within the Awesome Court docket. Alternatively, within the cases of this example, the Court docket used to be glad that the specialised process beneath the IRPA for reviewing MM’s prerequisites of liberate used to be no less than as vast and tremendous as an utility for habeas corpus within the Awesome Court docket.

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Lindsay v. Verge Insurance coverage Agents Ltd., 2023 ONCA 263

[Fairburn A.C.J.O., MacPherson and Miller JJ.A.]

Suggest:

S.F. Gleave and Ok. Ellins, for the appellants
E.C. Nanayakkara and N. Aresta, for the respondent

Key phrases: Breach of Contract, Employment, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53, Nook Brook (Town) v. Bailey, 2021 SCC 29, Cronos Staff Inc. v. Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A, 2022 ONCA 525

details:

In 2004, the respondent started running as an insurance coverage manufacturer for the company appellant in St. Catharines (the “Company”). The person appellant used to be the President of the Company. The Company bought non-public and industrial insurance coverage merchandise.

The employment contract that ruled the connection between the Company and the respondent incorporated phrases with regards to the possible acquire by means of the respondent of his ebook of industrial if he left the Company.

On April 15, 2013, the respondent gave his required 60 days’ written realize to the Company of his aim to surrender from his employment on June 14, 2013. He additionally signalled that he sought after to buy his ebook of industrial on the contractual worth of two times his annual commissions within the previous coverage time period. The Company accredited that the respondent had the fitting to buy his ebook of industrial except for for accounts that, pursuant to the contract, the Company may retain in the event that they have been of “explicit significance”.

The negotiations didn’t cross neatly. The Company used to be sluggish in offering a consumer record, in spite of everything doing so on Might 14, however with out names or coverage numbers, thus making it tough for the respondent to resolve if the record used to be correct. At the identical day the Company mentioned a purchase order worth of $481,167 and demanded ultimate on Might 29.

On Might 17, the respondent steered the Company via his legal professional that he may no longer vet the record and mentioned that the 14-day duration may no longer run till he had correct account data. The Company made corrections to the record and diminished the acquisition worth of the respondent’s ebook of industrial from the preliminary $481,167 to $389,136 to $362,977. In its ultimate letter on June 5, the Company insisted on ultimate at 5 p.m. that day.

The respondent didn’t shut the transaction at the phrases demanded, and began an motion alleging that the Company had breached the phrases of the events’ settlement. The Company counterclaimed that the respondent had improperly refused to shop for his ebook of industrial.  At trial, the respondent used to be a hit and used to be awarded damages of $185,000.

problems:

1. Did the trial pass judgement on err by means of misinterpreting the contract, and discovering the Company answerable for breach of contract?
2. Did the trial pass judgement on err in his damages evaluate by means of enforcing a 10-year time period for misplaced earnings?

maintaining:

Enchantment pushed aside.

reasoning:

1. No

The Court docket discovered no error within the trial pass judgement on’s cautious and complete contractual research. The Court docket agreed with the trial pass judgement on that it used to be an affordable interpretation of the contract to search out that the record of accounts and buy worth needed to be correct and that the respondent used to be entitled to a 14-day duration as soon as the correct record and worth have been mounted to make his choice. The Court docket held that the Company’s habits over a three-week duration in Might and June 2013 used to be inconsistent with either one of those very important elements of the contract.

The Court docket discovered that the Company modified the record and the preliminary worth two instances in the ones 3 weeks and gave the respondent no time to believe the transaction after environment the overall worth. As discovered by means of the trial pass judgement on, the Court docket agreed that the Company’s habits used to be unfair and no longer in step with the phrases of the employment contract. Thus, the Court docket held that the respondent’s refusal to near the acquisition used to be no longer a breach of the employment contract.

2. No

The Company argued that the trial pass judgement on erred by means of opting for a ten-year time period for the respondent’s lack of earnings. The Company contended that the utmost time period will have to were 6.6 years as a result of that used to be the typical period of the respondent’s insurance policies together with his shoppers all the way through his 9 years with the Company.

The Court docket disagreed, discovering that the mix of the Company’s retention price of eleven years for its industrial shoppers and the respondent’s 92 % retention price for his shoppers whilst on the Company justified the trial pass judgement on’s award.

The Court docket discovered that the trial pass judgement on didn’t err by means of no longer decreasing the award by means of the commissions the respondent used to be in a position to earn in his new place. The Court docket discovered that there used to be no proof earlier than the trial pass judgement on to fortify the realization that the respondent would were not able to carrier each teams of shoppers. The Court docket additionally discovered that the trial pass judgement on didn’t err in assigning a terminal price to the ebook of industrial. The retention price accredited by means of the trial pass judgement on didn’t presuppose that the ebook of industrial would don’t have any price on the finish of 10 years.

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Soave v. Stahle Development Inc., 2023 ONCA 265

[Miller, Trotter and Favreau JJ.A.]

Suggest:

J. Heimpel, for the appellant
L. Ok. Parsons and D. Thomas, for the respondent

Key phrases: Contracts, Interpretation, Same old of Evaluation, Employment, Insurance coverage, Protection, Lengthy-Time period Incapacity, Civil Process, Documentary Discovery, Affidavits of Paperwork, Trial, Proof, Admissibility, Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43, s. 134, Laws of Civil Process, rr. 30.08(1)(a), 53.08(1), 1162740 Ontario Restricted v. Pingue, 2017 ONCA 583, Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53, Ledcor Development Ltd. v. Northbridge Indemnity Insurance coverage Co., 2016 SCC 37

details:

The appellant, Stahle Development Inc. (“Stahle”), appealed a judgment requiring that it pay damages to the respondent, R.S., for having improperly terminated his long-term incapacity advantages protection. R.S. got to work for Stahle on October 7, 2013, as a building web site manager. R.S. used to be required to take part in Stahle’s crew advantages plan. Nice West Existence Insurance coverage used to be the supplier of long-term incapacity advantages. R.S.’ entitlement to advantages, together with long-term incapacity advantages equipped by means of Nice West Existence, have been described in a booklet ready by means of Mercon Advantages Products and services (the “Mercon Booklet”).

R.S. finished his paintings supervising one building web site round January 27, 2014. At the moment, Stahle introduced R.S. paintings on some other web site. Alternatively, R.S. became down the paintings as a result of he stated he required surgical treatment to handle a hernia situation. R.S. then stopped running and Stahle finished a Document of Employment that indicated that he used to be on a short lived depart because of clinical sickness.

On March 13, 2014, earlier than the hernia surgical treatment used to be scheduled, R.S. used to be excited by a significant motor car twist of fate (the “Coincidence”). Following the Coincidence, R.S. attempted to pay for drugs bought at a pharmacy via Stahle’s advantages plan. The insurer contacted Stahle to inquire about R.S.’ standing, at which level Stahle took the placement that R.S. used to be now not hired by means of the corporate and that he used to be subsequently no longer entitled to any advantages. R.S. therefore implemented for long-term incapacity advantages from Nice West Existence however used to be became down at the foundation that he used to be now not actively running at the date of the Coincidence. R.S. introduced an motion towards Stahle claiming that he persevered to be hired by means of the corporate on the time he stopped running on January 27, 2014, and that the corporate had improperly terminated his advantages.

The trial pass judgement on discovered that R.S. had taken a “transient clinical depart” on January 27, 2014, and that he used to be nonetheless hired by means of Stahle on the time of the Coincidence. She additionally discovered that R.S. would were entitled to long-term incapacity advantages. Stahle appealed the trial pass judgement on’s discovering that R.S. used to be entitled to obtain lengthy‑time period incapacity advantages.

problems:

1. Did the trial pass judgement on err in refusing to permit Stahle to introduce the Nice West Existence insurance plans into proof?
2. Did the trial pass judgement on err in giving no weight to the Nice West Existence letter?
3. Did the trial pass judgement on err to find that R.S. used to be eligible for long run incapacity advantages?

maintaining:

Enchantment allowed partially.

reasoning:

1. No.

At trial, Stahle sought to introduce the Nice West Existence insurance plans (the “Coverage”), which Stahle had no longer disclosed in its affidavit of paperwork. R.S. objected to the admission of the Coverage at the foundation that, as much as that time, the events had relied at the Mercon Booklet as a correct description of R.S.’ lengthy‑time period incapacity advantages protection. The trial pass judgement on dominated towards admitting the coverage in line with “trial equity”. Stahle submitted that the trial pass judgement on erred in making this ruling as a result of she failed to use the correct take a look at for the admission at trial of paperwork no longer disclosed in a sworn statement of paperwork. The Court docket discovered there used to be no foundation for interfering with the trial pass judgement on’s ruling in this factor.

Rule 30.08(1)(a) of the Laws of Civil Process (the “Laws”) supplies that, the place a celebration fails to expose a file in its affidavit of paperwork and the file is beneficial to that celebration, the file can best be offered at trial with depart of the courtroom. Rule 53.08(1) units out the take a look at for granting depart in such cases, and it calls for that the Court docket be glad that (a) there’s a cheap cause of the extend and (b) the admission of the file (i) is not going to motive prejudice that can not be compensated by means of prices or an adjournment and that (ii) it’ll no longer motive undue extend of the trial.

Whilst the trial pass judgement on didn’t explicitly confer with the take a look at beneath r. 53.08(1) of the Laws, it’s obvious that she regarded as the related elements and that her ruling used to be supported by means of the listing earlier than her. Particularly, she regarded as the problem of prejudice when she referred to trial equity and Stahle’s failure to expose that it supposed to depend at the Coverage.

In his observation of declare, R.S. referred to the outline of the long-term incapacity advantages as set out within the Mercon Booklet. In its observation of defence, Stahle accredited that this used to be a correct description of the appropriate provisions for his entitlement to long-term incapacity advantages. By way of no longer together with the Coverage in its affidavit of paperwork, there used to be no alternative for R.S. to inspect Stahle’s consultant at the Coverage or its applicability to R.S. As well as, Stahle best sought to introduce the Coverage on cross-examination which supposed that R.S.’ exam in leader had already proceeded at the assumption that the Mercon Booklet set out the correct provisions addressing R.S.’ entitlement to long-term incapacity advantages. R.S.’ trial technique used to be constructed across the provisions within the Mercon Booklet.

Stahle argued that the advent of the Coverage at this degree of the trial used to be not going to have brought about extend within the lawsuits as a result of its phrases weren’t considerably other from the phrases set out within the Mercon Booklet. Alternatively, Stahle didn’t make the Coverage to be had to the panel on enchantment. There used to be no movement for contemporary proof earlier than the Court docket. Accordingly, it used to be no longer imaginable for the panel to evaluate whether or not there have been any variations between the Coverage and its description within the Mercon Booklet.

2.  No.

In Might 2016, Nice West Existence became down R.S.’ utility for long-term incapacity advantages. In a letter it defined that R.S. used to be no longer entitled to long-term incapacity advantages for the Coincidence as a result of he “used to be now not actively at paintings for his employer as of this date”. At trial, Stahle relied in this letter for the aim of revealing that R.S. didn’t meet the eligibility standards for long-term incapacity advantages beneath the Coverage. The trial pass judgement on gave little weight to the letter, explaining that it used to be no longer imaginable to grasp whether or not Nice West Existence used to be influenced by means of an previous letter from Stahle advising the insurer that R.S. had resigned from his place on January 27, 2014, or whether or not Nice West Existence had assessed the declare as despite the fact that R.S. remained hired by means of Stahle. The Court docket rejected Stahle’s argument that the trial pass judgement on erred in giving no weight to the letter. It used to be no longer the function of the Court docket to reweigh the proof at trial, until the trial pass judgement on made a palpable and overriding error: Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33. The Court docket discovered it used to be totally suitable for the trial pass judgement on to offer no weight to the letter and located no error within the trial pass judgement on’s remedy of the letter.

3.  Sure.

The Court docket agreed with Stahle that the trial pass judgement on failed to correctly assess whether or not R.S. met the eligibility necessities for receiving long-term incapacity advantages. The Mercon Booklet addressed the cases beneath which an worker whose employment used to be briefly interrupted may proceed to be eligible for advantages. As well as, the Mercon Booklet set out the precise eligibility necessities for long-term incapacity advantages. The Court docket discovered the trial pass judgement on made palpable and overriding mistakes in her interpretation and alertness of those provisions.

Beneath the phrases of the Mercon Booklet, R.S.’ receive advantages protection best began after the tip of any ready duration imposed by means of Stahle and required that he be “actively at paintings” at the date his protection began. The Mercon Booklet then addressed the cases beneath which protection for an worker whose employment is briefly interrupted is eligible for persevered protection. The Mercon Booklet additionally set out the eligibility necessities that implemented in particular to long-term incapacity advantages. An worker is best eligible for long-term incapacity advantages following a qualifying duration of 120 days of incapacity. On the finish of this qualifying duration, the worker had 180 days to offer realize of all long-term incapacity claims to Nice West Existence.

The usual of evaluate that applies to the translation of a freelance is generally that of a palpable and overriding error, until there are extricable mistakes of legislation, or the contract at factor is a regular shape contract: Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53. The Court docket discovered there used to be no data earlier than the Court docket as as to whether the phrases of the Mercon Booklet constituted a regular shape contract. R.S. stopped running on January 27, 2014. At that time, he used to be now not entitled to advantages protection until he met some of the exceptions for persevered protection described within the Mercon Booklet. He additionally needed to meet the eligibility necessities for long-term incapacity advantages to cause that protection. The trial pass judgement on handled R.S.’ paintings interruption on January 27, 2014, as “a short lived clinical depart”, she accredited that R.S. used to be entitled to long-term incapacity advantages on account of the wounds he suffered within the motor car twist of fate.

The Court docket discovered this reasoning constituted a basic misreading of the eligibility necessities for long-term incapacity advantages within the Mercon Booklet. Particularly, whilst the trial pass judgement on discovered that R.S. used to be on “a short lived clinical depart”, she didn’t believe whether or not his paintings used to be interrupted as a result of he used to be on a depart of absence or on account of incapacity and, extra considerably, whether or not he met the eligibility necessities for long-term incapacity protection. If she had correctly interpreted the Mercon Booklet, she would have concluded that R.S. may best be entitled to long-term incapacity advantages if he (a) have been disabled throughout the which means of the Mercon Booklet at the date he stopped running, or (b) become completely disabled all the way through his depart of absence, and his employer used to be required by means of law, law or case legislation to pay advantages all the way through that duration.

The Court docket discovered the trial pass judgement on erred in that specialize in the continuation of protection provisions within the Mercon Booklet. Whilst those provisions confer with “advantages” and “receive advantages protection”, it used to be transparent from the context that the provisions didn’t cope with a incapacity that commenced after an worker stopped running, nor did they talk to incapacity protection itself.

Particularly, beneath the Go away of Absence provision, staff may proceed their “advantages” except for for incapacity advantages for a duration of as much as six months. Even though R.S. had made his proportion of the contributions after he stopped running, he wouldn’t have been eligible beneath this provision as it addressed continuation of advantages and no longer eligibility. “Incapacity advantages” have been explicitly excluded from the advantages to be had to staff who have been on a depart of absence.

The incapacity provision within the continuation of protection phase of the Mercon Booklet pondered that an worker not able to paintings because of incapacity would possibly proceed their “advantages” for as much as 24 months. Eligibility for persevered protection depended upon the worker already being in receipt of Employee’s Reimbursement or Lengthy-Time period Incapacity Advantages. Just like the Go away of Absence provision, the Incapacity provision addressed continuation of an current receive advantages. For the reason that provision presumed the worker to already be in receipt of long-term incapacity advantages, it used to be obvious that the intent of the availability used to be to handle protection for different advantages, equivalent to dental advantages or existence insurance coverage – no longer protection for long-term incapacity advantages.

To resolve whether or not R.S. used to be entitled to long-term incapacity advantages after he stopped running, the trial pass judgement on will have to have regarded as the provisions of the Mercon Booklet that in particular addressed entitlement to long-term incapacity advantages somewhat than continuation of protection. It used to be obvious that R.S. would qualify for long-term incapacity advantages if he have been disabled throughout the which means of the Mercon Booklet at the date he stopped running; in different phrases if he stopped running because of his incapacity.

An worker used to be best entitled to long-term incapacity advantages after a duration of 120 days of “incapacity”, and then they might observe for the ones advantages throughout the subsequent 180 days. On this case, the trial pass judgement on handled the start of R.S.’ ready duration because the date he stopped running however she regarded as whether or not he met the definition of incapacity in terms of his situation following the Coincidence. To evaluate whether or not R.S. used to be disabled inside of the 120-day qualifying duration between the date when he stopped running and the date of the twist of fate, she would have needed to assess whether or not he used to be disabled throughout the which means of the coverage on the time when he stopped running. This used to be obvious from the definition of “incapacity”, which calls for that an individual be not able to accomplish the very important tasks all the way through the qualifying duration.

As well as, the trial pass judgement on did not believe the availability within the Mercon Booklet that explicitly mentioned that an worker on a depart of absence used to be no longer entitled to long-term incapacity advantages in the event that they become completely disabled all the way through this era until the employer used to be required to pay advantages by means of law, law, or case legislation.

It used to be transparent from the phrases of the Mercon Booklet that R.S. used to be best eligible for long-term incapacity advantages if he met the definition of incapacity at the date he stopped running and all through the 120-day qualifying duration. On the other hand, if R.S. used to be no longer disabled throughout the which means of the Mercon Booklet at the date he stopped running, he is also entitled to long-term incapacity advantages if he become completely disabled all the way through his depart of absence and his employer used to be required to pay advantages all the way through that duration “as required by means of law, law or case legislation”. Alternatively, in this closing level, the Court docket famous that no submissions have been made at the factor, and it used to be no longer obvious whether or not any law, law or case legislation would observe within the cases of this example.

The Court docket used to be glad that the trial pass judgement on erred to find that R.S. used to be entitled to long-term incapacity advantages, with out taking into account if he used to be disabled at the date he stopped running or whether or not there used to be a demand in law, law, or case legislation for making this sort of discovering. The topic used to be remitted again to the trial pass judgement on or some other pass judgement on of the Awesome Court docket to make the decision about whether or not R.S. used to be disabled throughout the which means of the Mercon Booklet on that date, and whether or not he would have certified for long-term incapacity advantages in line with his hernia situation at the moment and all through the next 120-day qualifying duration.

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Truscott v. Co-Operators Normal Insurance coverage Corporate, 2023 ONCA 267

[Gillese, Tulloch and Roberts JJ.A.]

Suggest:

J. A. Scarfone and J. Sazio, for the appellants
R. Dowhan and M. McMahon, for the respondents

Key phrases:

Contracts, Insurance coverage, Fireplace, Protection, Torts, Negligence, Defamation, Inducing Breach of contract, Intentional Interference with Financial Members of the family, Breach of Responsibility of Just right Religion and Honest Dealings, Legal responsibility of Staff, Vicarious Legal responsibility, Civil Process, Partial Abstract Judgment, Placing Pleadings, No Cheap Explanation for Motion, Insurance coverage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. I.8, s. 128, s. 148, Statutory Situation 6, Statutory Situation 11, Laws of Civil Process, rr. 5.03(1), 21.01(1)(b), Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, Baywood Houses Partnership v. Haditaghi, 2014 ONCA 450, Butera v. Chown, Cairns LLP, 2017 ONCA 783, Addison Chevrolet Buick GMC Ltd. v. Normal Motors of Canada Ltd., 2016 ONCA 324, Kang v. Solar Existence Assurance Corporate of Canada, 2013 ONCA 118, Correia v. Canac Kitchens, 2008 ONCA 506, ADGA Techniques Global Ltd. v. Valcom Ltd. (1999), 43 O.R. (3d) 101 (C.A.), Sataur v. Starbucks Espresso Canada Inc., 2017 ONCA 1017, Northbridge Normal Insurance coverage Corp. v. Ashcroft Houses-Capital Hill Inc., 2021 ONSC 1684, Aviva Insurance coverage v. Cunningham et al., 2022 ONSC 6331, Desjardins Normal Insurance coverage Staff v. Campbell, 2022 ONCA 128, Rizzo & Rizzo Footwear Ltd. (Re), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 27, Smith v. Co-operators Normal Insurance coverage Co., 2002 SCC 30, Campbell v. Desjardins, 2020 ONSC 6630, aff’d partially, 2022 ONCA 128, Senator Actual Property v. Intact Insurance coverage, 2021 ONSC 200, Blackwater v. Plint, 2005 SCC 58, Trillium Energy Wind Corp. v. Ontario (Ministry of Herbal Sources), 2013 ONCA 683

details:

JT is a chartered skilled accountant who runs a small observe in Hamilton, Ontario via his skilled company, JTPC and a numbered corporate who, in combination, are the appellants. The appellants operated out of a Victorian space in Hamilton that used to be seriously broken by means of a fireplace on January 20, 2017. The fireplace considerably destroyed the development and treasured accounting papers and data situated in it. The appellants submitted development and treasured papers loss claims to its insurer, the respondent (“C”). A few of the ones claims have been the subject material of umpire appraisal awards beneath the Insurance coverage Act (the “Act”).

On September 5, 2017, the umpire of the appraisal procedure issued an award appraising the development loss at a alternative value price of $507,130.09 and a real money price of $431,060.58 (“Award #1”). On June 4 and November 7, 2018, the appellants submitted two new proofs of loss for development prices with regards to by-law compliance. C refused to believe those proofs of loss at the foundation that the appraisal had taken position, and Award #1 were granted and paid. Those two development loss claims have by no means been appraised or paid. With recognize to the appellants’ treasured paper loss claims, they submitted 3 proofs of loss dated April 17, September 28, and October 31, 2017. Even if all 3 proofs of loss have been submitted previous to the realization of the appraisal procedure on March 9, 2018, the appraisal procedure proceeded best at the April 17 evidence of loss. On March 22, 2018, the umpire awarded the entire quantity claims by means of the appellants of their April 17 declare of $157,639 (“Award #2”).

After the awards have been made, C sought judicial evaluate of Award #2, declaring that the umpire had exceeded jurisdiction and breached the indemnity theory. The Divisional Court docket pushed aside the judicial evaluate utility and held that: (a) the umpire had jurisdiction beneath the appraisal settlement; (b) C had a possibility to contest the appellants’ appraisal method for calculating the dear papers loss declare however selected no longer to take action; and (c) Award #2 used to be restricted to the quantification of loss and didn’t cope with the appellants’ entitlement beneath the Coverage. C refused to pay out on different development and treasured papers loss claims, together with those who were filed earlier than the value determinations have been held and that have been expressly no longer coated by means of the appraisal procedure.

The appellants weren’t content material with the dealing with of the insurance coverage declare or the quantities paid out beneath the Coverage and began an motion towards C and the worker assigned because the adjuster with accountability for dealing with the insured’s claims (“C’s adjuster”). Of their observation of declare (the “Declare”), the appellants alleged that, amongst different issues, C and its adjuster manipulated the appraisal procedure, behind schedule cost of claims, and engaged in different habits amounting to unhealthy religion.

The Declare sought entitlements beneath the Coverage, damages for breach of contract, negligence, defamation, procurement of breach of contract, interference with financial family members, and unhealthy religion, in addition to annoyed and punitive damages. After taking into account the bills made by means of C to the appellants, there remained substantial sums to be had beneath the Coverage limits for development and treasured papers loss claims.

C and C’s adjuster moved for partial abstract judgment, looking for to have the appellants’ loss claims with regards to the development and treasured data pushed aside and to have the Declare struck as towards C’s adjuster. The movement pass judgement on granted partial abstract judgment mentioning that C had paid out all quantities owing for the alternative and service of the development and alternative of the dear papers, pushing aside the appellants’ Declare in recognize of the ones issues, hanging the Declare as towards C’s adjuster, and ordering the appellants to pay prices. The appellant appealed all sides of the judgment.

problems:

1. Did the movement pass judgement on err by means of figuring out that this used to be a suitable case for partial abstract judgment?
2. Did the movement pass judgement on err by means of figuring out that the Awards in spite of everything settled the entire quantity of the appellants’ entitlements beneath the Coverage?
3. Did the movement pass judgement on err by means of sticking the Declare as towards C’s adjuster in my view?

maintaining:

Enchantment allowed.

reasoning:

1. No

The Court docket discovered that the movement pass judgement on made an extricable error in theory in granting partial abstract judgment as a result of he did not believe whether or not partial abstract judgment used to be suitable within the context of the litigation as a complete. The Court docket additional held that since the problems have been inextricably intertwined, deciding them at the movement ended in the opportunity of inconsistent findings and substantive injustice. Finally, the Court docket held that the movement pass judgement on erred when he mentioned that credibility used to be no longer a crucial factor within the issues earlier than him however his factual findings have been depending on making credibility determinations.

The Court docket, bringing up Butera v. Chown, Cairns LLP, reiterated that partial abstract judgment is an extraordinary process, reserved for a subject or problems that can be readily bifurcated from the ones in the primary motion, and that can be handled expeditiously and in an economical means. The Court docket held that partial abstract judgment will have to be granted best within the clearest of instances and provided that doing so does no longer give upward push to any of the related dangers of extend, expense, inefficiency, and inconsistent findings. The Court docket held that it used to be readily obvious that this used to be no longer a kind of “clearest” of instances through which partial abstract judgment used to be suitable.

2. No

As a initial level, the Court docket discovered that the movement pass judgement on made a palpable and overriding error when he discovered that the appellants had submitted their claims to the umpire for a decision, have been “no longer content material” with the Awards, and impermissibly sought to problem the Awards throughout the courts, somewhat than by means of judicial evaluate. This used to be an error by means of the movement pass judgement on since the appellants have been content material with the Awards; didn’t search to problem them; and the courts have been the precise venue for the adjudication of the appellants’ claims. It used to be, if truth be told, C that challenged the validity of Award #2 via a judicial evaluate utility and the appellants who effectively argued that Award #2 will have to be upheld. The Court docket held that since the appellants weren’t difficult the Awards, judicial evaluate used to be no longer the precise course for them to practice and it used to be for the courts to resolve the validity in their Declare.

The Court docket held that the movement pass judgement on erred when he interpreted the related provisions of the Insurance coverage Act as barring the appellants from filing, after the value determinations, additional proofs of loss relating to other bills, beneath the development loss and treasured papers loss heads of protection. On a simple studying of the related legislative provisions, the appraisal procedure pondered by means of the Insurance coverage Act isn’t a “one-shot” valuation. Slightly, it lets in an umpire to in particular confine an appraisal award to recognized loss claims recognized on the time of the appraisal. On this case, the Awards have been expressly confined.

The Court docket discovered that the umpire didn’t purport to adjudicate a whole head of protection in both Award #1 or #2: each awards have been limited to specified claims of the appellants and that it used to be for the trial pass judgement on to make the vital factual findings to resolve whether or not the events agreed that the value determinations in spite of everything decided the appellants’ rights to make claims beneath the development loss and treasured papers loss heads of protection.

3. No

The Court docket discovered that the movement pass judgement on erred in hanging the Declare towards C’s adjuster by means of making use of an wrong prison theory and by means of failing to just accept as true the fabric details pleaded towards C’s adjuster in my view. The Court docket famous that the movement pass judgement on erred in legislation when he mentioned: “If an employer is vicariously answerable for the habits of its staff (who’re appearing at some point of their tasks) there is not any impartial motion towards the workers”. Conversely, the Court docket set out the legislation that confirms that an worker appearing within the context or process employment will also be sued and held in my view accountable in legislation for his or her tortious habits.

The appellants’ Declare and Amended Remark of Declare alleged details that might have given upward push to an impartial actionable mistaken for which the appellants may well be entitled to restoration, separate and with the exception of the underlying claims towards C. The Declare incorporated allegations of negligence at the a part of C’s adjuster that have been distinct from the negligence claims towards C, together with that C’s adjuster in my view acted negligently when he didn’t protected mavens to handle the appellants’ place on development loss and that C’s adjuster defamed the appellants.

The movement pass judgement on additionally erred by means of failing to just accept as true the fabric details pleaded towards C’s adjuster. When assessing whether or not to strike out a pleading beneath r. 21.01 at the foundation that it discloses no cheap reason for motion, the courtroom will have to settle for as true the fabric details as pleaded. The Court docket famous that the movement pass judgement on additional erred by means of best taking into account the Declare and by means of no longer taking into account the extra details within the draft amended observation of declare. The Court docket held that during studying the Declare generously, and accepting the allegations in it to be true, it might no longer be stated that the appellants’ claims towards C’s adjuster in my view had no cheap prospect of good fortune.

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Wong v. Lui, 2023 ONCA 272

[Gillese, Tulloch and Roberts JJ.A.]

Suggest:

N. Brown and A. Hussain, for the appellant Town of Toronto
J. Binavince, for the respondents

Key phrases: Torts, Negligence, Public Government, Negligent Inspection, Statutory Interpretation, Undeniable Which means, Legislative Goal, Civil Process, Limitation Sessions, Final Limitation Duration, Capability, Minors, Decision of Factor Ahead of Trial, Barriers Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B, ss. 6, 7, 15(2), 15(4)(b), Barriers Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 240, s. 47, Development Code, O. Reg. 332/12, Statute of Merton, 1235, 20 Rooster. 3, c.1, c.8, Statute of Barriers, 1540, 32 Rooster. 8, c.2, Statute of Barriers, 1623, 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, Laws of Civil Process, rr. 1.03, 7.01(1), 21.01(1)(a), York Rental Company No. 382 v. Jay-M Holdings Restricted, 2007 ONCA 49, Carmichael v. GlaxoSmithKline Inc., 2020 ONCA 447, Rizzo & Rizzo Footwear Ltd. (Re), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 27, Deaville v. Boegeman (1984), 14 D.L.R. (4th) 81 (Ont. C.A.), Sable Offshore Power Inc. v. Canada (Customs and Income Company), 2003 FCA 220, Canaccord Capital Company v. Roscoe, 2013 ONCA 378, Levesque v. Crampton Property, 2017 ONCA 455, McLean v. British Columbia (Securities Fee), 2013 SCC 67, Papamonolopoulos v. Board of Training for the Town of Toronto (1986), 56 O.R. (2nd) 1 (C.A.), Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. v. Canada (Lawyer Normal), 2013 SCC 14, Mumford v. Well being Sciences Centre (1987), 92 D.L.R. (3d) 64 (Guy. C.A.), Stoddard v. Watson, [1993] 2 SCR 1069, Novak v. Bond, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 808, Bisoukis v. Brampton (Town) (1999), 46 O.R. (3d) 417 (C.A.), R. v. D.L.W., 2016 SCC 22, Azzeh (Litigation Dad or mum of) v. Legendre, 2017 ONCA 385, Baig v. Mississauga, 2020 ONCA 697, Ruth Sullivan, The Development of Statutes, seventh ed (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2022), at §2.03, Williams, Limitation of Movements in Canada, second ed (Toronto: Butterworths, 1980), at p. 24, William Ballentine, A Treatise at the Statute of Barriers (New York: C. Wiley, 1812), at p. 9, Henricus de Bractona, De legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Quantity 2 (c. 1210-1268), Graeme Mew, The Regulation of Barriers, third ed (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2016), at p. 4, Barriers Act Session Staff, Suggestions for a New Barriers Act: Record of the Barriers Act Session Staff (Toronto: Ministry of the Lawyer Normal, 1991) at 1, Peter St. John Langan, Maxwell at the Interpretation of Statutes, twelfth ed (London: Candy & Maxwell, 1969) at p. 116

details:

The appellant appealed from the dismissal of its movement to brush aside the respondents’ negligence claims involving development lets in from 1987 opened by means of the appellant. The 1987 development lets in have been issued in terms of faulty building performed on their house previous to the respondents’ acquire. The appellant argued that the ones claims have been statute-barred since the respondents commenced their motion neatly after the expiry of the 15-year final limitation duration beneath s. 15(2) of the Limitation Act, 2002 (the “Act”). The events agreed that, however for the applying of the tolling provisions of s. 15(4) of the Act, without equal 15- 12 months limitation duration beneath s. 15(2) in terms of the declare in regards to the 1987 development lets in would have expired on January 1, 2019.

The appellant had introduced a movement beneath r. 21.01(1)(a) of the Laws of Civil Process for the decision of a query of legislation involving the translation of s. 15(4)(b) of the Act. It sought a declaration that s. 15(4)(b) of the Act does no longer toll without equal 15-year limitation duration the place a plaintiff does no longer have a declare till she or he is an grownup and, for s. 15(4)(b) to use, a plaintiff will have to have a declare whilst the plaintiff is a minor. The appellant additional argued at the movement that without equal 15-year limitation duration through which to deliver an motion with regards to the 1987 development lets in had expired on January 1, 2019, greater than two years earlier than the respondents commenced their motion on July 7, 2021.

The movement pass judgement on decided that without equal limitation duration beneath s. 15(2) didn’t run from 2004, when the Act used to be handed and without equal limitation duration used to be imposed, to 2006, when the respondent became 18. Because of this, the movement pass judgement on concluded that without equal limitation duration didn’t start to run till Ms. Wong reached the age of majority on July 11, 2006. In deciphering s. 15(4)(b) of the Act, the movement pass judgement on rejected the appellant’s submissions that s. 15(4)(b) used to be conditional on a plaintiff accruing a reason for motion on the time he or she used to be a minor. She reasoned that, if that have been the supposed legislative goal, the legislature “would have used specific language to that impact – because it did in s. 47 of the Former Act.” She discovered that any jurisprudence taking into account s. 47 of the previous Barriers Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 240 (the “Former Act”), had no utility as it used to be “markedly other” from s. 15(4)(b) of the present Act. Due to this fact, the movement pass judgement on held that the motion used to be no longer statute-barred.

factor:

Did the movement pass judgement on err in figuring out that for s. 15(4)(b) of the Act to use, the declare will have to stand up whilst the plaintiff used to be a minor?

maintaining:

Enchantment allowed.

reasoning:

Sure.

The Court docket mentioned that the phrases of an Act are to be learn of their complete context and of their grammatical and atypical sense, harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the item of the Act, and the aim of Parliament. The courtroom will have to undertake an interpretation of the statute that best possible fulfills the gadgets of the law and that avoids any inconsistency between its other provisions and avoids absurd penalties. The whole goal of limitation statutes have been to bar a claimant’s proper to start prison lawsuits after a definite time period. Finality in litigation used to be no longer the one object of boundaries statutes. The Court docket famous that the Act and its predecessors try to steadiness the plaintiff’s proper to sue with the defendant’s proper to walk in the park and finality.

This steadiness additionally underlies the aim of without equal 15-year limitation duration in s. 15(2) of the Act, as its goal is to steadiness the worry for plaintiffs with undiscovered reasons of motion with the want to save you the indefinite postponement of a limitation duration and the related prices with regards to record-keeping and insurance coverage due to steady publicity to legal responsibility. Additionally, balanced towards the fitting to finality is the acknowledgement that it could be unfair to bar an individual’s proper to make a declare whilst in a situation that renders them not able to take steps to pursue their rights. Because of this, limitation sessions are suspended by means of reason why of disability and age as a mechanism for making sure equity to plaintiffs.

The Court docket mentioned that the movement pass judgement on didn’t believe the precise functions of the exceptions for minors and the ones beneath incapacity when coming to her interpretation of s. 15(4)(b). By way of failing to interpret s. 15(4)(b) in mild of the precise functions of those exceptions, the movement pass judgement on deviated from the legislative goal that had remained consistent for a number of masses of years within the phase’s predecessors, equivalent to in s. 47 of the Former Act. Specifically, the movement pass judgement on’s means brought about her to tell apart s. 47 of the Former Act from s. 15(4) of the present Act, discovering that “[t]he language of s. 47 of the Former Act is markedly other from that of s. 15(4)(b) of the Act. Segment 47 of the Former Act explicitly required a reason for motion to accrue to a minor as a situation of postponing the limitation duration. Such an specific situation is absent from the textual content of s. 15(4)(b) of the present Act.” This used to be an error of legislation, because the other language didn’t derogate from the underlying goal of the related phase in each and every Act.

The Court docket mentioned that limitation sessions for minors are tolled as a result of they’re presumed to be incapable of adequately taking a look after his personal affairs, together with the bringing of movements. This goal informs and continues into the existing Act. Not anything within the textual content of s. 15(4)(b) ousts the historic public goal mirrored in s. 47 of the Former Act and its predecessors. With out specific language or legislative aim on the contrary, it’s presumed that the legislature didn’t want to make vital adjustments to the legislation, as it’s “unbelievable that Parliament would leave from the overall machine of legislation with out expressing its aim with impossible to resist clearness”.

Moreover, the movement pass judgement on failed to use a contextual and purposive strategy to s. 15(4)(b). Importantly, she failed to offer impact to all of the phrases in s. 15(4)(b), in addition to to its which means and goal in terms of s. 15(2) and the whole thing of the Act. Because of this, the research will have to be undertaken afresh. The word in s. 15(4)(b), that “the individual with the declare is a minor”, hyperlinks the individual with the declare to the current state of being a minor. If it have been supposed to incorporate individuals who have been minors at any time all the way through the working of without equal limitation duration, the textual content would have incorporated the previous anxious, particularly, “the individual with the declare who used to be or is a minor”. It didn’t achieve this. Additionally, the word, “isn’t represented by means of a litigation dad or mum in terms of the declare”, is conjunctive with the phrases, “the individual with the declare”. Once more, using the existing anxious signifies the existing time when the one that has the declare is a minor.

Making use of the needful contextual and purposive means, the one interpretation on a simple studying of s. 15(4)(b) this is consonant with the opposite provisions of the Act, the elemental goal at the back of boundaries statutes, and the centuries-old coverage goals of the law with recognize to minors is that it best postpones the working of without equal limitation duration for minors who’ve claims that arose after they have been minors.

It used to be not unusual flooring that the respondent had no declare whilst she used to be a minor. Additional, she didn’t have status to deliver a declare till she bought the valuables on August 9, 2019. The Court docket held that without equal limitation duration expired on January 1, 2019, being 15 years from the date of the Act, and the respondent had no longer met her onus of proving that she used to be incapable of bringing a declare because of s. 15(4). Due to this fact, the declare used to be statute-barred.

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SHORT CIVIL DECISIONS

KVM Investments Restricted v. Isabella, 2023 ONCA 278

[Doherty, Zarnett and Sossin JJ.A.]

Suggest:

D. Baker, for the appellant
Z. Pringle, for the respondent

Key phrases: Civil Process, Abstract Judgment, Prices, KVM Investments Restricted v. Isabella, 2022 ONSC 4125

Molani Property v. Iran, 2023 ONCA 279

[Doherty, Zarnett and Sossin JJ.A.]

Suggest:

V. Genova and A. Ottaviano, for the respondents/transferring events The Property of YYY and XXX
T. Arndt, for the appellants/responding events O.A. et al.
No person showing for the respondent/responding celebration Ukraine Global Airways PJSC/ Ukraine Global Airways

Key phrases: Civil Process, Elegance Lawsuits, Opting-Out, Litigation Guardians, Interlocutory Orders, Divitaris v. Gerstel, 2022 ONCA 60, Huang v. Braga, 2017 ONCA 268, 30 E.T.R. (4th) 19, Should v. Shkuryna, 2015 ONCA 665, Willmot v. Benton, 2011 ONCA 104

Siebold v. Lawand , 2023 ONCA 276

[Feldman, Gillese and Huscroft JJ.A.]

Suggest:

A. Moslehi, for the appellant
B. S., appearing in particular person (by means of Zoom)

Key phrases: Civil Process, Warfare of Rules, Overseas Judgments, Reputation, Enforcement, Adjournment, Prejudice, Judicial Discretion

Youngsters’s Assist Society of London and Middlesex v. T.E., 2023 ONCA 270

[Pepall, van Rensburg and Benotto JJ.A.]

Suggest:

J. Gagne, for the appellant, T.M.
R. C. Hammond, for the respondent Youngsters’s Assist Society of London and Middlesex
A. J. P. Tremain, for the respondent T.E.
Ok. Hensel, D. Snider and Ok. Tsang, for the respondent J.G.
N. Hill-Dolson, for the respondent L.D. (on behalf of Oneida Country of the Thames)
T. Regulation, for the respondent O.T.
S. Clarke, for the intervenor Affiliation of Local Kid and Circle of relatives Products and services Businesses of Ontario

Key phrases: Circle of relatives Regulation, Kid Coverage, Civil Process, Appeals, Prices, Circle of relatives Regulation Laws, O.Reg.114/99, Youngsters’s Assist Society of the Area of Peel v. L.M., 2022 ONCA 379, Selznick v. Selznick, 2013 ONCA 35

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