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Tort 2026 FC 512

Stewart v. Canada

The Federal Court found a correctional officer used unjustified force against Kelsey Stewart, causing facial injuries. It awarded $50,000 for battery and $15,000 for Charter vindication.

  • Use-of-force
  • Battery
  • Section-7-charter
  • Section-12-charter
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Damages-assessment
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Human-rights-law 2026 CHRT 33

Borden v. Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Tribunal dismissed a CHRA complaint against the RCMP, finding the officers who reported the matter were municipal police seconded to CFSEU-BC, not RCMP members or agents.

  • Discrimination
  • Racial-profiling
  • Accommodation
  • Jurisdiction
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Secondment
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Tort 2026 ONCA 227

Hartin v. Hynes

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from summary judgment in a dog-bite case, finding no agency basis for vicarious liability and no statutory owner liability.

  • Dog-bite
  • Owner-liability-under-statute
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Agency-relationship
  • Summary-judgment
  • Costs-of-appeal
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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 ONCA 893

Derenzis v. Ontario

The Ontario Court of Appeal largely upheld a Rule 21 motion to strike, but allowed Lucia Derenzis leave to amend her breach of good faith claim against Gore Mutual Insurance Company.

  • Motion-to-strike
  • Breach-of-good-faith
  • Statutory-accident-benefits-(sabs)
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Limitation-period
  • Intrusion-upon-seclusion
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Civil-procedure 2025 ONCA 877

Jones-Moore v. Moore

The Court of Appeal upheld the striking of a statement of claim as vexatious and an abuse of process, and dismissed the appeal with costs.

  • Strike-statement-of-claim
  • Vexatious-litigation
  • Abuse-of-process
  • Res-judicata
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Leave-to-amend
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Tort 2025 BCCA 432

Christoffersen v. British Columbia (Minister of Justice)

The British Columbia Court of Appeal summarily dismissed an appeal because the claim was statute-barred, and it agreed there was no private law duty for police to investigate.

  • Police-duty-of-care
  • Statute‐barred-claims
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Abuse-of-process
  • Summary-dismissal-under-court-rules
  • Statute-barred-claims
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Civil-procedure 2025 BCCA 445

Knight v. British Columbia (Public Safety)

Leave to appeal from case planning conference orders was denied, and the no-fee application was also dismissed, because the proposed appeal lacked merit and would delay trial.

  • Leave-to-appeal
  • Case-management/case-planning-conference
  • Particulars-and-pleadings
  • Examinations-for-discovery
  • No-fee-application-under-court-of-appeal-rules-r.85(6)
  • Vicarious-liability
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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 2025 BCSC 2301

S.A.S. #1 v. Quigley

The court set three related sexual abuse liability trials to be heard at the same time, while leaving admissibility of similar fact evidence to the trial judge.

  • Joinder-of-trials
  • Similar-fact-evidence
  • Propensity-evidence
  • Vicarious-liability
  • Institutional-negligence
  • Implied-undertaking-waiver
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