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Civil 2026 ONCA 118

Pederson v. Forget

The Court of Appeal upheld a jury verdict for the defendants in a slip-and-fall negligence action, finding no reversible error in excluding one expert test.

  • Expert-admissibility
  • Slip-and-fall
  • Tampering/interference
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Jury-instruction
  • Costs
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Tort 2026 BCSC 10

Jasuja v. Monson

On liability in a motor vehicle collision case, the court found Monson negligently sideswiped the Honda and held H&R Transport vicariously liable. The third party, Thapar, was not at fault.

  • Sideswipe-collision
  • Duty-of-care
  • Standard-of-care
  • Causation
  • Credibility-assessment
  • Third‐party-claim
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Tort 2025 BCSC 2680

Metcalfe v. Thermofluid Technologies Inc.

Le tribunal a rejeté une action en responsabilité du fait des produits après avoir conclu que les avertissements du produit étaient suffisants et que le demandeur ne les avait pas lus ni suivis.

  • Adequacy-of-warnings
  • Duty-to-warn
  • Design-defect-(absence-of-self-sealing-valve)
  • Causation
  • Contributory-negligence-/-plaintiff-fault
  • Summary-trial-suitability
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Torts 2025 ONCA 867

Sienna v. Duckett

Ontology: Ontario Court of Appeal allows a motion-to-strike appeal in part and grants leave to amend a negligence claim tied to Firearms Act licensing.

  • Duty-of-care
  • Proximity
  • Statutory-duty
  • Anns/cooper-test
  • Leave-to-amend
  • Policy-considerations
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Tort 2025 BCSC 2640

Begg v. Provincial Rental Housing Corporation

On a no-evidence motion in a slip-and-fall occupiers’ liability case, the court held the plaintiff failed to adduce evidence of breach or causation and dismissed the claim.

  • No-evidence-motion
  • Standard-of-care
  • Causation
  • Expert-evidence-and-foundation
  • Building-code-compliance
  • Admissibility-of-documents
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Defamation 2025 BCSC 2397

Fraser v. Weisbeck

The court partly granted leave to amend a civil claim in defamation and vicarious liability, but struck most new causes of action and dismissed the Diocese for lack of capacity.

  • Leave-to-amend-pleadings
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Negligent-and-fraudulent-misrepresentation
  • Capacity-to-be-sued
  • Pleadings-sufficiency
  • Costs
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Tort-law 2025 BCSC 2377

Moiseiwitsch v. Canadian National Railway Company

Class action certification arising from the Lytton Fire was granted in part, with negligence, private nuisance and Rylands v. Fletcher certified and several claims struck.

  • Some-basis-in-fact-test-for-certification
  • Causation
  • Duty-of-care
  • Admissibility-of-expert-evidence
  • Class-definition-and-common-issues
  • Aggregate-damages
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Occupiers'-liability 2025 BCSC 2345

Petrunia v. Pensionfund Realty Limited

The court summarily dismissed a trip-and-fall claim after finding the mall’s temporary flooring and signage were reasonable, the fall arose from the plaintiff’s own movement, and no spoliation was proved.

  • Duty-of-care-(s.3-ola)
  • Causation
  • Summary-determination-(rule-9-7)
  • Cctv-evidence-preservation
  • Warning-signage
  • Temporary-flooring/transition-hazards
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Limitation-law 2025 BCSC 2236

Bassi v. Chahal

The court dismissed a summary trial application on limitation because disability, credibility, and indivisible-injury issues required viva voce evidence at trial.

  • Limitation-period
  • Disability-tolling
  • Divisible-vs-indivisible-injuries
  • Summary-trial-suitability
  • Acknowledgement/estoppel
  • Costs
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