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Court of Appeal stays ‘unsealing’ order pending leave to appeal to the Supreme Court

In Donovan v. Sherman Estate, 2019 ONCA 376, the Court of Appeal for Ontario set aside a sealing order, to take effect 10 days after the release of...

Supreme Court of Canada: Error for Court of Appeal to make factual finding trial judge declined to make

In brief oral reasons from the bench, the Supreme Court of Canada recently held in R. v. Wakefield, 2019 SCC 26 that it was an error for the Court of...

Appeal quashed from “without prejudice” dismissal of motion for non-party production

In Quenneville v. Robert Bosch GMBH, 2019 ONCA 235, the Court of Appeal for Ontario recently weighed back into the final-interlocutory debate in the...

Supreme Court of Canada addresses “distorting lens” metaphor of appellate review

In Salomon v. Matte‑Thompson, 2019 SCC 14, the Supreme Court of Canada recently addressed, for the first time, the metaphor of the...

Court of Appeal for Ontario confirms that recusal order is interlocutory

In Brunning v. Fontaine, 2019 ONCA 98, the Court of Appeal for Ontario recently confirmed that a recusal order is an interlocutory order, meaning...

Court of Appeal of Manitoba finds jurisdiction for interlocutory provincial offence appeals

In Winnipeg (City of) v. The Neighbourhood Bookstore and Café Ltd., 2019 MBCA 3, the Court of Appeal for Manitoba recently interpreted the new...

Saskatchewan Court of Appeal clarifies appeal powers under the Extradition Act

There is comparatively little jurisprudence interpreting the powers of an appellate court hearing an appeal against an order of committal in the...

Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan resolves case of first impression regarding whether order is final or interlocutory

The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan recently ruled that a chambers decision was final, not interlocutory, where it referred a series of...

Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada provides guidance on solicitor-client costs

Rarely is the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada required to give reasons for the taxation of costs on applications for leave to appeal....

Ontario Court of Appeal calls for reform of family law appeal routes

In a recent costs endorsement, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has again called for reform of the province’s family law appeal routes, as the...