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Civil 2025 ONCA 874

G.G. v. Ontario

The Ontario Court of Appeal gave case management directions in grouped appeals about birth alerts, class certification, and whether to revisit the Ragoonanan principle.

  • Class certification
  • Birth alerts
  • Representative plaintiff requirement
  • Ragoonanan principle
  • Class-actions
  • Civil-procedure
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Criminal law 2022 BCCA 270

R. v. R.O.

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from a historic indecent assault conviction, holding the trial judge had not misapprehended evidence about the appellant’s presence.

  • Indecent assault
  • Historic sexual assault
  • Credibility assessment
  • Misapprehension of evidence
  • Publication ban
  • Historic-sexual-assault
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Tax law 2021 FCA 225

M.S. v. Canada

Because the remedies sought required invalidation of the CRA's interpretation of s.9 of the Children’s Special Allowance Regulations and determinations that are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tax Court of Canada, the appellant failed to establish an arguable case under art.575(2) CCP and authorization for a class action was correctly denied.

  • Jurisdiction of tax court of canada
  • Class action authorization under ccp art.575
  • Interpretation of children’s special allowance regulations s.9
  • Canada child benefit and gst/hst credit eligibility
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Immigration law TB9-16519

TB9-16519

Even assuming the appellants were credible, they failed to establish on the balance of probabilities that they faced a serious possibility of persecution or that relocation to Abuja would be unreasonable or unduly harsh; therefore the proposed internal flight alternative was viable and the RPD decision confirming denial of refugee protection was correct.

  • Female genital mutilation
  • Internal flight alternative
  • Credibility findings
  • New evidence admissibility
  • Indigeneship discrimination
  • Child risk profile
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Constitutional law 2013 BCSC 2309

Inglis v. British Columbia (Minister of Public Safety)

The court held that cancelling the Mother Baby Program at ACCW infringed the security of the person and equality rights of affected mothers and infants.

  • Section 7 security of the person
  • Section 15 equality/discrimination
  • Section 1 justification
  • Prison nursery / mother-baby program policy
  • Best interests of the child / cfcs act context
  • Arbitrariness, overbreadth and gross disproportionality
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Torts 2001 BCSC 1177

T.W.N.A. et al v. Clarke et al

Damages award in a residential school abuse action. The court held the assaults materially caused lasting psychological harm and awarded compensatory, aggravated, punitive and care damages.

  • Vicarious liability
  • Negligence
  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Punitive damages
  • Aggravated damages
  • Causation for psychiatric injury
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