In an era where the bench and society recognize that judges are hard-pressed for time and resources, and given Chief Justice McLachlin’s repeated calls for increased access to justice, the Supreme Court of Canada’s unanimous decision in Cojocaru (Guardian ad litem of) v. British Columbia Women's Hospital & Health Center, 2013 SCC 30, is hardly […]
In Williams v Toronto, 2012 ONCA 915, the Ontario Court of Appeal explores the relationship between the City and a tenant, Mr. Williams, over loss of rent paid by tenants owed reduced rent under a statutory rent-reduction scheme. This case determined that there could be sufficient relationship between the tenants and the City to ground […]
In Young v Bella, [2006] 1 SCR 108, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") was faced with the very difficult task of balancing the goal of protecting children with the interests of informants and persons under suspicion of child abuse. The case dealt with the duty of care between informants and those suspected of child abuse […]
When reading cases, I often make snap judgments about what should be the right result before going through the relevant legal analysis (I suspect there are others who do the same). In tort actions, such gut instincts frequently nudge me towards principles of distributive rather than corrective justice. I would rather see a sympathetic and […]