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The Ontario Court of Appeal held that a confidential complaint to church authorities could meet the public-interest threshold for an anti-SLAPP motion and remitted the matter.
The Court of Appeal for Ontario dismissed Marlon Pitters’s appeal from a r. 2.01 dismissal, finding no valid mortgage issue and no basis to interfere.
The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal over production of historic financial statements, holding the order was not barred by limitation and did not require creating new records.
The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an anti-SLAPP appeal in a defamation case, finding the impugned post did not reasonably identify the appellant.
Costs decision in a family appeal: the Court of Appeal held the successful mother was entitled to costs, and fixed them at $80,000 in total.
Because the trial judge made findings that the appellant falsified evidence and solicited others to give false testimony, she was entitled to reject his uncorroborated evidence; there was no basis for the Court of Appeal to interfere with those credibility findings and therefore the appeal was dismissed.
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On the facts the motion judge correctly found appellants failed to prove the Property was partnership property under the Backman test and properly ordered sale under the Partition Act, but erred in dispensing with the appellants' consent to complete a sale without notice or evidence that consent would be unreasonably withheld; appellate court set aside that aspect and directed a reference for supervised sale to an associate judge under rule 66.02 while denying leave to appeal the costs order.
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Because the appeal was allowed in part and success was divided, and because the issue of costs in the court below was not addressed in the appeal reasons, the $20,000 costs award in the court below was set aside and no costs of the motion in the court below were ordered; the Court also found the motion judge erred in permanently staying the A&B Action but upheld the requirement for a motion to add A&B and a temporary stay for practical reasons.
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The Court exercised its discretion to award costs of the appeal to the respondent and fixed the quantum at $5,748.88 inclusive of disbursements and applicable taxes, payable by appellant David Lightfoot to the respondent.
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The trial judge did not commit reversible error; after a full trial she properly found a material change in circumstances and that persistent parental conflict and unclear joint decision-making harmed the child's interests, justifying allocation of sole decision-making responsibility for schooling, health care and extracurricular activities to the respondent; those findings are entitled to appellate deference and the appeal is dismissed.
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