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The court dismissed a petitioner's application for third-party records and a pre-trial witness examination concerning capacity to execute a power of attorney and representation agreement.
The Federal Court granted judicial review of a CHRC dismissal, finding the investigation lacked sufficient transparency and thoroughness and returning the matter for redetermination.
On consent, the Tribunal granted a confidentiality order under the Competition Act defining 'Protected Records', establishing a 'Confidential – Level B' designation with specified permitted recipients and procedures for designation, re-designation, compelled disclosure, retention, return or destruction, and retained jurisdiction to enforce and vary the order.
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The Tribunal granted Cogeco’s confidentiality motion and sealed five specified business documents, finding disclosure would risk confidential commercial interests.
Federal Court granted judicial review of an RPD vacation decision, finding procedural unfairness and unreasonableness in the treatment of photo evidence and identity records.
Applying the Sierra Club test and s.52 CHRA, the Tribunal found a real and substantial risk to public security from revealing the identities of CSIS employees engaged in covert operational activities under s.18(1) CSIS Act; the requested blanket anonymization of all past and present CSIS employees was overly broad, so the Tribunal granted a confidentiality/anonymization order limited to employees who were, are or are likely to become engaged in covert operational activities and imposed conditions for limited disclosure to the Complainant or Commission with confidentiality obligations.
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The motion was dismissed as premature because the documents are only proposed exhibits and not part of the Tribunal's official record; confidentiality requests must be specific as to pages/parts sought to be sealed and may be renewed if and when the proposed exhibits are admitted; redaction disputes (including the discipline letter) and admissibility will be resolved at the hearing and parties must narrow and focus their documentary and witness evidence.
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On the stage 1 threshold the judge found that the complainant's trial testimony established that Homewood (Wellness Together) and NSHA (Abbie J. Lane) sessions assisted her recall and thus those records are likely relevant and their in camera production is necessary in the interests of justice; by contrast Avalon records were not shown to have produced any new recall and did not meet the likely relevance threshold and therefore shall not be produced.
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The Federal Court held that EDC could not withhold policy numbers and maximum liability amounts under the EDA or ATIA and ordered disclosure.
Motion judge did not err in concluding the Report was subject to the deemed undertaking and that disclosure to non‑parties (including the press) without consent was a serious breach warranting striking of the wrongful dismissal pleadings; contempt finding for breach of interlocutory injunctions was upheld because orders were clear, known and deliberately breached, but the sentencing judge erred in imposing an immediate term of incarceration without proper proportionality and totality analysis, so the appellate court set aside the custodial sentence and substituted a 14‑day conditional (house…
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