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October 3, 1997  1621 - 1733                                                             le 3 octobre 1997

CONTENTS                                                   TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Her Majesty The Queen

Roger Taylor

Dep. A.G. of Canada

v. (26064)

Nova Corporation of Alberta (F.C.A.)

Warren J.A. Mitchell, Q.C.

Thorsteinssons

FILING DATE 22.9.1997

Aytel Property Management Inc.

Raymond F. Leach

Siskind, Cromarty, Ivey & Dowler

v. (26121)

Regional Assessment Commissioner, Region No. 23 et al. (Ont.)

Gordon Good

FILING DATE 29.9.1997

Albert Fiddler

Daniel J. Brodsky

v. (26123)

Her Majesty The Queen (Ont.)

Scott Hutchison

A.G. of Ontario

FILING DATE 19.9.1997

The Minister of Justice

S. David Frankel, Q.C.

Dep. A.G. of Canada

v. (26129)

Glen Sebastian Burns et al. (B.C.)

Michael Klien

Bolton & Muldoon

FILING DATE 22.9.1997

Canada Employment and Immigration Commission et al.

I.G. Whitehall, Q.C.

Dept. of Justice

v. (26194)

Carol Nielsen et al. (F.C.A.)

Katherine Hardie

B.C. Public Interest Advocacy Centre

FILING DATE 16.9.1997

Ville de Chambly

Jean-Jacques Rainville

Dunton Rainville

c. (26195)

Fernand Gagnon et al. (Qué.)

Serge Vermette

DesRivières, Vermette

DATE DE PRODUCTION 17.9.1997

Gilbert Terry Genaille

Heather S. Leonoff, Q.C.

Wolch, Pinx, Tapper, Scurfield

v. (26196)

Her Majesty The Queen (Man.)

Greg Lawlor

Manitoba Justice Public Prosecutions

FILING DATE 18.9.1997

Western Delta Lands Inc. et al.

Jack Webster

Webster Hudson & Akerly

v. (26199)

Zurich Indemnity Co. of Canada (B.C.)

Brian J. Konst

Mackenzie Fujisawa Brewer Stevenson Koenig

FILING DATE 19.9.1997

Her Majesty The Queen

Valerie A. Moore

Crown Attorney

v. (26201)

Cory Colin Drake (P.E.I.)

John L. MacDougall, Q.C.

MacLeod, MacDougall, Crane & Parkman

FILING DATE 19.9.1997

Alco Dispensing Canada Ltd.

Vern Krishna, Q.C.

Koskie-Minsky

v. (26202)

Her Majesty The Queen (F.C.A.)

George Thomson

Office of the A.G. of Canada

FILING DATE 19.9.1997

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 1288P

David M. Brown

Brown MacGillivray Stanley

v. (26203)

Allsco Building Products Ltd., a body corporate et al. (N.B.)

David W. Clark

Clark & Co.

FILING DATE 22.9.1997

Board of School Trustees of School District No. 46 (Sunshine Coast)

Frank S. Borowicz

Davis & Co.

v. (26204)

Sunshine Coast Teachers’ Assoc. et al. (B.C.)

Allan E. Black

McTaggart, Ellis & Co.

FILING DATE 23.9.1997

Ferdinand Vidal

Lorraine Gamache

c. (26205)

Sa Majesté La Reine (Qué.)

Yvon Lefebvre

DATE DE PRODUCTION 23.9.1997

Boris Netupsky

Boris Netupsky

v. (26206)

The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the province of British Columbia (B.C.)

K.A. Short

Bull, Housser & Tupper

FILING DATE 23.9.1997

Bruno Mailhot et al.

Bruno Mailhot

c. (26207)

Ville du Lac Etchemin et al. (Qué.)

Etienne Parent

DATE DE PRODUCTION 24.9.1997

Mary Wall

Mary Wall

v. (26208)

Paul H. McCleary et al. (Ont.)

David E. Leonard

McCarthy, Tétrault

FILING DATE 24.9.1997

United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1518

John Baigent

Baigent & Jackson

v. (26209)

Kmart Canada Ltd. et al. (B.C.)

Patrick G. Foy

Ladner Downs

FILING DATE 24.9.1997

Her Majesty The Queen

S. David Frankel, Q.C.

Dep. A.G. of Canada

v. (26210)

Ralph Jake Klassen (Yukon)

Edward J. Horembala, Q.C.

Preston, Willis & Lackowicz

FILING DATE 25.9.1997

Guardian Insurance Co. of Canada

E.D.D. Tavender, Q.C.

Milner Fenerty

v. (26214)

Garry Brent Miller et al. (Alta.)

E.S. Pipella, Q.C.

Pipella Warren

FILING DATE 25.9.1997

M & D Farm Ltd. et al.

Alain J. Hogue

Alain J. Hogue & Assoc.

v. (26215)

The Manitoba Agricultural Credit Corp. (Man.)

B. Patrick Metcalfe

D’Arcy & Deacon

FILING DATE 26.9.1997

SEPTEMBER 19, 1997 / LE 19 SEPTEMBRE 1997

                                                  CORAM:  Chief Justice Lamer and Cory and McLachlin JJ. /

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                 Josephakis Charalambous

                                                                                                v. (26106)

                                                                       Her Majesty The Queen (Crim.)(B.C.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Fresh evidence - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in the weight it accorded to the testimony adduced in cross-examination - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in the threshold it applied for the admission of the fresh evidence - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to properly analyse the fresh evidence on the issue of credibility.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                           Brian McMillan

                                                                                                v. (26095)

                                                                        The Rural Municipality of Thompson

-and-

David Meek and Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation (Man.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial Law - Insurance - No fault insurance plan - Wording of plan provides benefits for “bodily injury caused by an automobile” - Whether injuries  “caused by”  - Whether intervening negligence a factor.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM: Chief Justice Lamer and L’Heureux-Dubé and Gonthier JJ. /

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges L’Heureux-Dubé et Gonthier

Dans l’affaire de la faillite de:  Elias Malka

ENTRE:

                                                                                   Tye-Sil Corporation Ltd.

                                                                                                c. (25918)

                                                                                     Max B. Druker (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit commercial - Faillite - Contrats - Vente - Un syndic est-il lié par la clause d’option d’achat que le débiteur a consentie avant sa faillite? - L’exécution en nature d’une obligation personnelle contractée par le débiteur avant sa faillite peut-elle être ordonnée à l’encontre du syndic? - Y a-t-il eu transfert de propriété de l’immeuble par le seul exercice d’une option d’achat contenue au bail même si les parties ont consenti à reporter la signature de l’acte de vente et le paiement du prix à une date ultérieure? - L’option d’achat consentie à la demanderesse par le failli était-elle opposable au syndic malgré l’absence de preuve de préjudice à la masse des créanciers?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Dans l’affaire de la faillite de:  Elias Malka

ENTRE:

                                                                                   Tye-Sil Corporation Ltd.

                                                                                                c. (25919)

                                                                              Druker et Associés inc. (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit commercial - Faillite - Créancier et débiteur - Bonne foi - Exercice d’une clause de dation en paiement par la demanderesse - Refus de la demanderesse de signer une quittance et d’accepter le paiement offert par le syndic - Aux termes de l’art. 1162 du Code civil du Bas-Canada, le débiteur doit faire des offres réelles de la somme due avec consignation lorsque le créancier refuse de recevoir paiement - Cour d’appel concluant que le premier juge pouvait rejeter la requête de la demanderesse en déclaration de propriété au motif qu’elle a refusé abusivement de recevoir paiement - Application de Banque nationale du Canada c. Soucisse, [1981] 2 R.C.S. 339 - Fin de non-recevoir - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en considérant que malgré le défaut par le syndic de consigner les sommes offertes au greffe en vertu de l’art. 189 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. C-25, ou entre les mains d’une compagnie de fiducie selon l’art. 189.1 C.p.c., celui-ci pouvait valablement s’opposer à la requête en déclaration de propriété?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

CORAM: Sopinka, Gonthier and Bastarache JJ. /

Les  juges Sopinka, Gonthier et Bastarache

                                                Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, a body corporate and

 The Guarantee Company of North America, a body corporate

                                                                                                v. (26012)

                                                The Maritime Life Assurance Company, a body corporate (N.S.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Civil Procedure - Pre-trial procedure - What is the proper application and effect to be given to the principle of solicitor-client privilege between fiduciaries - What is the proper application and effect to be given to the principle of waiver of solicitor/client privilege.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                            James Mercier

                                                                                                v. (26060)

                                               The Minister of Justice and Attorney General for Alberta (Alta.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative law - Jurisdiction - Constitutional law - Division of powers - Whether the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act, R.S.C.1985, c.C-23 .4 gives that Board exclusive jurisdiction over aeronautical occurrences - Whether a province has overlapping jurisdiction to investigate an aeronautical occurrences - Whether the province of Alberta has jurisdiction to conduct a public inquiry into a parachuting accident under the Fatality Inquiries Act, R.S.A.1980, c.F-6 despite the Constitution Act, 1867  and the Aeronautics Act , R.S.C.1985, c.A-2 , which give the federal government jurisdiction over aviation activities, including parachuting accidents.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM: Chief Justice Lamer and Gonthier and Major JJ. /

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Gonthier et Major

                                                                                      Alta Surety Company

                                                                                                v. (26098)

                                                                Campbell Comeau Engineering Limited (N.S.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Contracts - Guaranty/suretyship - Whether a surety’s obligation under the standard form of labour and materials payment bond extends to the principal’s liability under contracts not specifically referred to in the bond.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM: L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and Iacobucci JJ. /

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

                                                           The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees

                                                                                                c. (25937)

                                                          Compagnie des Chemins de fer nationaux du Canada

et

Me Michel G. Picher (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail - Arbitrage - Convention collective - Interprétation - Exercice par l’arbitre de sa compétence - Directive de l’employeur selon laquelle les employés doivent porter une montre ferroviaire - Grief du syndicat selon lequel l’employeur est tenu de défrayer le coût des montres - Caractère arbitrable du grief - L’arbitre a-t-il commis une erreur juridictionnelle justifiant l’intervention de la Cour supérieure en décidant que le grief n’était pas arbitrable?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                     Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited

                                                                                                v. (26084)

                                                                     The Minister of National Revenue (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Statutes - Interpretation - Definition of “manufacturer or producer” in subsection 2(1)(f) of the Excise Tax Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. E‑13 - Application of the ejusdem generis principle - Whether reimbursements by vehicle importer and manufacturer to automobile dealers for the cost of preparing and conditioning domestically manufactured vehicles prior to delivery to customers could be deducted to reduce the sale price in determining sales tax payable - Whether Respondent discriminated in its decision that the Applicant could not be considered as the manufacturer or producer of all imported motor vehicles sold by it in Canada pursuant to section 26.1(1) of the  Excise Tax Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. E‑13 (as amended).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                             Susan Weiss

                                                                                                v. (26092)

                                                               The Attorney General of Canada (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative law - Judicial review - Unemployment insurance - Whether the Court of Appeal breached the principles of natural justice - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law - Whether the Court of Appeal based its decision on an erroneous finding of fact.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

June 27, 1995

Board of Referees (Meredith, Chairperson, Tuz and Hershkovitz, Members)

Applicant’s appeal from a decision of the Canada Employment and Insurance Commission denied

August 23, 1996

Umpire (McGillis J.)

Applicant’s appeal dismissed

May 28, 1997

Federal Court of Canada (Appeal Division)

(Stone, Décary, McDonald JJ.A.)

Applicant’s application for judicial review dismissed

June 20, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

SEPTEMBER 26, 1997 / LE 26 SEPTEMBRE 1997

CORAM: Chief Justice Lamer and Cory and McLachlin JJ. /

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                                   B.M.-L.

                                                                                                c. (26137)

                                                                           Sa Majesté la Reine (Crim.)(Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Procédure - Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en refusant la demande d’autorisation d’appel? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en rejetant l’appel fondé sur le dépôt d’avis d’appel avant que ne soit produit le mémoire du demandeur? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en rejetant l’appel sur la base qu’il n’avait aucune chance de succès? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en refusant d’intervenir alors que les garanties constitutionnelles de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  ont été violées?- La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en accueillant la requête pour rejet appel de l’intimée?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                                                      F.L.

                                                                                                c. (26138)

                                                                                       Sa Majesté la Reine

                                                                                                        et

                                                                                      B.M.-L. (Crim.)(Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel -  Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Procédure - Appel - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en considérant que la requête de l’intimée demandant le rejet de l’appel devait être accueillie? - La Cour d’appel est-t-elle en droit de rejeter l’appel? - La Cour d’appel avait-elle la compétence pour statuer sur l’appel? - Si oui, la Cour d’appel peut-elle statuer sur l’ensemble de l’appel avant même que soit présenté le mémoire de la demanderesse? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit et a-t-elle utilisé un critère valide pour décider de son intervention pour accueillir la requête en rejet d’appel de l’intimée, refusant ainsi d’intervenir alors que, selon la demanderesse, les garanties constitutionnelles contenues à la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  relativement à la protection de sa vie privée ainsi que relativement à ses droits à la protection contre les fouilles, perquisitions ou saisies abusives n’ont pas été respectées?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                            The Golden Griddle Corporation

                                                                                                v. (26101)

                                                                 The Corporation of the City of Toronto (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

 Property law - Landlord and tenant - Relief from forfeiture - Whether judge’s discretion under s. 21 of  the Landlord and Tenant Act (relief from forfeiture) is fettered by a requirement that, in granting relief from forfeiture to a sub-tenant, the Court must be satisfied that the granting of the relief would not unfairly prejudice or adversely affect the head lessor - Whether relief from forfeiture should only be granted to a sub-tenant on terms whereby the sub-tenant is required to assume all the terms, conditions and obligations contained in the head lease - Whether s. 21 of  the Landlord and Tenant Act permits a judge to grant relief from forfeiture to a sub-tenant without requiring the sub-tenant to pay all arrears owing under the head lease and assume all of the head tenant’s obligations under the head lease - Whether the Court of Appeal for Ontario erred in substituting its own discretion with respect to the terms upon which the Applicant would be granted relief from forfeiture.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM: Chief Justice Lamer and L’Heureux-Dubé and Gonthier JJ. /

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges L’Heureux-Dubé et Gonthier

Henriette Varin-Almeida, Louise Varin, Michel Varin,

Carole Varin, André Varin, Denise Varin, et Gilles Varin

c. (25945)

Rolande Blackburn-Moreault, Pierre Moreault,

Patrick Moreault, Michel Moreault et Henri Moreault (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Code civil - Successions - Testaments - Legs à titre universel - Usufruit viager - Caducité - Accroissement - Libéralités - Substitution - Ouverture - Interprétation de l’article 961 du Code civil du Bas-Canada - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur dans l’interprétation de l’article 961 du C.c.B.-C. puisqu’elle ajoute arbitrairement le mot “dernier” au texte de cette disposition créant ainsi, sans aucun fondement, un accroissement automatique entre cogrevés dans toute substitution?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                                             David Picken

                                                                                                c. (25976)

                                                                                          Richard Grenier

                                                                                                        et

                                                                        Procureur général du Québec (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Procédure - Saisie - Saisie-arrêt avant jugement - Crainte objective de mise en péril de la créance au sens de l’article 733 du Code de procédure civile - Contrat de délation entre l’intimé et le ministère de la Sécurité publique selon lequel l’intimé se verra attribuer une nouvelle identité à sa sortie de prison - Action en dommages du demandeur contre l’intimé - Saisie-arrêt avant jugement - Requête de l’intimé en annulation de la saisie-arrêt avant jugement rejetée en Cour supérieure - Appel accueilli - L’octroi d’une nouvelle identité constitue-t-elle une crainte objective de mise en péril de la créance au sens de l’article 733 du Code de procédure civile?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

CORAM:  Sopinka, Gonthier and Bastarache JJ. /

Les juges Sopinka, Gonthier et Bastarache

                                                                                       Miroslav Zborovsky

                                                                                                v. (26062)

                                                                       Her Majesty The Queen (Crim.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Search and seizure - Exclusion of evidence - Should evidence obtained pursuant to a section of the Income Tax Act subsequently struck down be excluded from evidence - Does the fact that the officers of Revenue Canada knew after the seizure that the mandating section of the Income Tax Act had been ruled unconstitutional by the Federal Court of Appeal indicate that they were not acting in good faith, and that therefore, the evidence obtained ought not to be admitted - Whether the trial judge should have excluded the evidence regardless of any constitutional issues if the warrant did not specifically authorize its seizure.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                      The Maritime Life Assurance Company

                                                                                                v. (26103)

                                                                                    Harold Schwartz (Nfld.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Agency-mandate - Where an independent broker acts in a dual agency role who should suffer the loss where the agent commits a fraud by embezzling the funds given to him or her.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

December 15, 1992

Supreme Court of Newfoundland (Trial Division)

(Soper J.)

Respondent’s action dismissed

April 10, 1997

Supreme Court of Newfoundland (Court of Appeal) (Gushue C.J.N., O’Neill, J.A., Marshall  J.A.[dissenting])

Respondent’s appeal allowed

June 27, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal and for an extension of time filed

CORAM:  Gonthier, Major and Bastarache JJ.  /

Les juges Gonthier, Major et Bastarache

                                                                                        William D. Thomas

                                                                                                v. (26125)

                                              Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Province of Manitoba (Man.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Statutes - Interpretation - Manitoba Health Services Insurance Act, C.C.S.M., c.H35 - Canada Health Act , R.S.C.1985, c.C-6  - Was the Applicant entitled to reimbursement from the Manitoba Health Services Commission for medical and hospital services incurred outside Manitoba in the circumstances of this case?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                          Wayne B. Carter

                                                                                                v. (25921)

                                           Patricia J. Boardman (nee McCue) and Associates Leasing Inc. (N.B.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Torts - Motor vehicles - Negligence - Canadian Charter  - Civil Procedural law - Trial - Whether the Applicant’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms , ss.14 , 19(1)  and 19(2)  were breached at trial or on appeal - Whether the findings at trial or on appeal are supported on the facts found by the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench - Whether the Applicant was denied the right to have a fair and impartial hearing.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                  Edmund R. Saunders and Reta W. Saunders

                                                                                                v. (26066)

                                                                                 Oceanus Marine Inc. (N.S.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Mortgages - Interest - Is mortgage charging criminal rate of interest void and unenforceable?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM: L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and Iacobucci JJ. /

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

                                                                                            Gaétan Delisle

                                                                                                c. (25926)

                                                                     Le Procureur général du Canada (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Charte canadienne des droits de la personne - Droit du travail - Législation - Interprétation - Est-ce que l’article 109(4) de l’ancien Code canadien du travail , L.R.C. (1985) c. L-2   et le par. (e)  de l’art.  2  de la Loi sur les relations de travail dans la fonction publique , L.R.C. (1985) c. P-35   violent les garanties constitutionnelles des articles 2(b) , 2(d)  et 15  de la Charte ?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                                           Pierre Bergevin

                                                                                                c. (25978)

                                                                                Brasserie Labatt Inc. (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail - Arbitrage - Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré en concluant qu’il n’y avait pas absence totale de motifs et qu’on comprenait aisément les fondements de la décision de l’arbitre et en refusant de considérer adéquatement la jurisprudence sur le contenu de l’obligation légale de motiver du tribunal administratif? - Le salarié a-t-il l’intérêt requis pour attaquer une décision arbitrale par voie d’action directe en nullité selon l’art. 33 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. C-25?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                                     Sail Labrador Limited

                                                                                                v. (26083)

The Owners, Navimar Corporation Ltee and All Others Interested in  the Ship “Challenge One”, Her Equipment, Bunkers and Freights AND The Ship “Challenge One” Her Equipment Bunkers and Freights (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial Law - Contracts - Option to purchase contained in a charter party agreement - Whether substantial performance of the terms of the charter party agreement is sufficient grounds for an option holder to invoke an equitable jurisdiction to compel performance of an option - Whether equitable doctrines applied to a charter party agreement.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

June 28, 1996

Federal Court, Trial Division (Nadon J.)

Declaration granted

June 13, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

August 11, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to cross-appeal filed

                                                                                            Sahar Elguindi

                                                                                                v. (26090)

                          Canada (Minister of Health) and Director of Bureau of Drug Surveillance (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Whether rules of procedural fairness breached by receiving, considering or failing to disclose ex parte evidence and submissions - Whether reasonable apprehension of bias arose - Application of the “inevitability” doctrine.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

September 10, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada (The Registrar)

Extension of time to file reply granted

                                                                                               Azam Mian

                                                                                                v. (26110)

                         Canadian Human Rights Commission and The Attorney General of Canada (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural Law - Civil Procedure - Extension of Time - Whether application for extension of time to apply for judicial review properly refused.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 23, 1997 / LE 23 SEPTEMBRE 1997

ST. MARY’S INDIAN BAND and ST. MARY’S INDIAN BAND COUNCIL - and - THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF CRANBROOK - and - THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA (B.C.)(24946)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and La Forest, L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka,

Gonthier, Cory, McLachlin, Iacobucci and Major JJ.            

The application for extension of time and the application for re-hearing are granted.  Costs are awarded to the respondent, City of Cranbrook, on the appeal and on the application to extend time and for re-hearing.

La demande de prorogation et la demande de nouvelle audition sont accueillies. Les dépens sont adjugés à la ville de Cranbrook intimée à l’égard du pourvoi et des demandes de prorogation et de nouvelle audition.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 / LE 25 SEPTEMBRE 1997

25998                    FEDERATED INSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA - v. - MANITOBA PUBLIC INSURANCE CORPORATION (Man.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Cory and McLachlin JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Insurance - Contracts - Extent of insurers’ liability pursuant to contracts of insurance - Whether a different test applies to the interpretation of the policy wording of a private insurer in competition with a public insurer than applies in the interpretation of the policy wording of two private insurers - What is the meaning of the term “Certificate of Insurance issued under The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation Act”?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25873                    CONSTRUCTION McNICOLL INC. - c. - THE ROYAL TRUST COMPANY ET DRESDNER BANK CANADA et L’OFFICIER DU BUREAU DE LA PUBLICITÉ DES DROITS DE LA CIRCONSCRIPTION FONCIÈRE DE MONTRÉAL (Qué.)

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges L’Heureux-Dubé et Gonthier

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée avec dépens.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Code civil - Privilèges de constructeur - Renonciation - Contrat - Interprétation - Une clause contractuelle en vertu de laquelle un entrepreneur renonce à enregistrer contre l’immeuble qu’il a construit, “des liens privilégiés ou autre charges” pour les montants retenus à même les paiements progressifs à titre de retenue de garantie ou autre retenues dûment justifiées, continue-t-elle de s’appliquer lorsque ces retenues sont devenues exigibles et non payées?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

25685                    LAMARCHE McGUINTY INC. - c. - L’HONORABLE CLAUDE RYAN, MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES MUNICIPALES et LA MUNICIPALITÉ DE BRISTOL (Qué.)

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges L’Heureux-Dubé et Gonthier

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée avec dépens.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit municipal - Municipalités - Annexion - Approbation du ministre relativement au règlement d’annexion de la municipalité de Pontiac - Article 139 de la Loi sur l’organisation territoriale municipale, L.R.Q. chap. O-9 - Substitution de parties en Cour suprême - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré en droit en accueillant l’appel, avec dépens, sans avoir considéré les principes de l’arrêt Procureur Général du Québec c. Sinclair & al., [1992], 1 R.C.S. 579, pour établir si un ministre de la Couronne détient un pouvoir discrétionnaire ou un pouvoir de compétence liée? - Application de l’arrêt de la Cour d’appel du Québec Claude Ryan c. Ville de Deux-Montagnes et Ville de Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac [1992], R.J.Q. 2706 (demande d’autorisation d’appel no. 23358, désistement produit le 17 mars 1993).

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

26003                    PHILIP AVRITH - v. - WILLIAM I. MILLER (Que.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and L’Heureux-Dubé and Gonthier JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Appeals - This case raises the issue of whether the Court of Appeal, on a motion under s. 501.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, had jurisdiction to order the Applicant to pay to the Respondent $ 50,000 within 30 days as a condition for the Applicant to continue his appeal - Jurisdiction of an appellate court to grant relief Ultra Petitia.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25971                    PERRY POIDINGER, ALBERT POIDINGER AND INGRID WALSER - v. - VILLE DE VAUDREUIL AND DENIS LECOMPTE (Que.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and L’Heureux-Dubé and Gonthier JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Civil procedure - Prescription - Mandamus - Whether a mandamus proceeding containing a subsidiary conclusion in damages must be annexed to a writ of summons - Whether mandamus proceedings must be manditorily instituted by way of a motion - Whether an action must be institued by  a writ of summons.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

26131                    RAYMOND DESFOSSÉS - v. - ALLAN ROCK, MINISTER OF JUSTICE OF CANADA (Crim.)(F.C.A.)(Qué.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Sopinka and Gonthier JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Extradition - Whether the Extradition Act, R.S.C. 1985 c. E-23 and treaty obligations between United States of America and Canada in Can. T.S. 1976, No.3 give the Minister a discretion to override the Articles 6, 9 and 11 of the Treaty and ss.10(2), 19(b) and 25 of the Extradition Act - Whether the Minister violated s.7  of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  in abdicating his responsibilities under the Treaty and the Extradition Act - Whether the Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms demands that extradition treaties which subject Canadian citizen to transfer to foreign jurisdictions be given a strict interpretation in order to prevent overriding of the rights and freedom guaranteed by ss.6  and 7  of the Charter .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

26067                    J.-ANDRÉ EMOND - c. - SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Crim.)(Qué.)

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Cory et McLachlin

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Preuve - Fraude - Législation - Interprétation - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré en droit en décrétant que le silence du demandeur à l’effet de ne pas dévoiler son profit, en tant que prometteur immobilier, aux investisseurs, constituait un moyen dolosif au centre de l’article 380  du Code criminel ? - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré en droit en ignorant complètement dans son analyse le point crucial de la défense du demandeur, soit les témoignages de Me André Morissette et Reynald Breton? - La Cour du Québec n’a-t-elle pas erré en droit en concluant que le demandeur était, lorsqu’il acquérait un droit de propriété sur les immeubles, le mandataire des investisseurs?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Le 5 mai 1997

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Baudouin, Brossard et Nuss jj.c.a.)

Appel rejeté

Le 26 juin 1997

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

25942               NUTRON MANUFACTURING LTD. v. ALMECON INDUSTRIES LTD. (F.C.A.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Patents - Infringement - Interpretation of patent claims - Whether the scope of a patent monopoly was apparent from the claims - Whether the essence of an invention lay in the accomplishment of a result or a structure that was found in the claims - Reading-in limitations to the claims from the disclosure - Reading out limitations on the basis of later knowledge - Anticipation - Validity of British Celanese v. Courtaulds (1955), 52 R.P.C. 171.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

February 6, 1997

Federal Court of Appeal

(Strayer, Linden, McDonald JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

April 4, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25812               MERCK & CO., INC. and MERCK FROSST CANADA INC. v. THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE and APOTEX INC. (F.C.A.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed and the request for an oral hearing is denied, the whole with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée, de même que la requête en obtention d’une audition, le tout avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Patents - Statutory instruments - Interpretation - Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, ss.7(1)(e) and 7(5) - Jurisdiction - Did the Court of Appeal err in concluding that the jurisdiction to extend the legislative stay provided by Section 7(5) of the Regulations is exclusive of any other basis in fact and law - Is s.7(5) ultra vires for violating s.2(e) of the Canadian Bill of Rights - Is s.7(5) ultra vires as an interference with the Court’s institutional independence to control and supervise its own process?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25979               THE CITY OF CALGARY v. THE CALGARY POLICE ASSOCIATION (Alta.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative law - Judicial review - Jurisdiction - Collective agreement - Workers’ compensation - Whether Arbitration Board committed a jurisdictional error and/or a patently unreasonable decision in interpreting the collective agreement when it held that a sum paid in settlement of a civil action by the Workers’ Compensation Board to the employee was neither “any benefit payable” under the Workers’ Compensation Act nor “any damages awarded” to the employee.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

26036/26037      BARA ACADEMY OF BUSINESS SCIENCES LTD. and MARY L. BARA v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF ALBERTA and ANDREW M. (ANDY) HENDRY (Alta.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The applications for leave to appeal are dismissed with costs.

Les demandes d’autorisation d’appel sont rejetées avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Actions - Defence - Whether defence presented or Statement of Defence supported by an Affidavit sworn to by someone who has personal knowledge of the events which caused the Statement of Claim to be filed - Whether the Applicant Academy was a private vocational school or a private college - The Academy’s ongoing predicament raises the questions of the constitutionality of the Private Vocational Schools Act and Regulations.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25997               NANDU PATEL v. DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE CANADA (F.C.A.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for extension of time is granted and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée et la demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Evidence - Whether Canadian Human Rights Commission properly dismissed a complaint of discrimination when an Investigating Officer of the Commission recommended conciliation - Authority of Canadian Human Rights Commission to dismiss complaints - Proper basis for a dismissal.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25991               TRIPLE FIVE CORP. LTD. and WEST EDMONTON MALL LTD. v. SIMCOE & ERIE GROUP, SIMCOE & ERIE INSURANCE CO., ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO., HALIFAX INSURANCE CO., HALIFAX INSURANCE CO. OF CANADA, SCOTTISH & YORK INSURANCE CO. LTD., U.S.F. & G. INSURANCE CO. OF CANADA, UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTEE CO., ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO. OF CANADA, ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO., COMMONWEALTH INSURANCE CO., REANDEX HOME INTERNATIONAL LTD., LAURENTIAN PACIFIC INSURANCE CO., CONTINENTAL INSURANCE CO., CANADIAN GENERAL INSURANCE CO. and PHOENIX CONTINENTAL MANAGEMENT LTD. (Alta.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Sopinka and Gonthier JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Insurance - Contracts - Interpretation - “All-risks” policies - Proximate cause of loss is a design error - Design error not an excluded risk - Links in the chain of causation initiated by the design error are excluded risks - Whether the loss is covered - Whether the excluded risk of “latent defect” encompasses a flaw built into a manufactured product as a direct result of the design error - Whether the interpretation of standard form wording is a question of fact or law - Whether reasonableness is the standard of appellate review for the interpretation of standard insurance contract wording - Whether the failure of insurers to include a standard form exclusion in the property policies is relevant when interpreting the excluded risks stated in the policies - Whether the court should only interpret coverage provisions broadly in favour of the insured and excluded clauses strictly and narrowly against the insurer where the contra proferentum rule applies - Whether certain American insurance cases represent the law in Canada.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25820               RYAN ROBERT REED v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(B.C.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Dangerous driving - Reverse onus - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in placing a reverse onus on the Applicant to provide an exculpatory explanation for the accident - Whether the placing of that onus, which the Applicant was incapable of discharging, violated the Applicant’s right to be presumed innocent or his right to security of the person.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

26061               GORDON DENIS GILLESPIE v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Man.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for extension of time is granted and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée et la demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter  - Criminal - Criminal Law - Procedural Law - Appeals - Right to Appeal - Whether ss. 372(3) of the Criminal Code  is a reasonable limit on freedom of expression - Whether an appeal lies to the Court of Appeal for Manitoba from a decision by a single judge of that Court, in chambers, to dismiss an application for leave to appeal from a decision rendered in summary conviction appeal court.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

26117               LOUIS LUDWIK FURTAK v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Man.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative Law - Appeal - Right to appeal from a Registrar’s decision to return a Notice of Appeal - Right to appeal from a decision by a judge, in chambers, of the Manitoba Court of Appeal to the Court of Appeal.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25916               VERONIKA HUBLALL, carrying on business under the firm name and style of RONNIE’S HAIR SALON v. WILMA MILLS (Ont.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Torts - Action - Damages - Assessment - Assessment of damages by jury - Uniformity of damage awards throughout the provinces in cases similar fact patterns and legal issues -  Should a judge have guidelines upon which to guide a jury through their deliberations in such proceedings?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25993               HOTEL EMPLOYEES AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 662, JEAN DEARMAN, GLORIA RAFUSE, CINDY MILLIGAN, LINDA RAFUSE and PATRICIA HUBLEY v. FUTURE INNS CANADA INC. and LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD (NOVA SCOTIA), THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NOVA SCOTIA REPRESENTING HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF THE PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA; DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (N.S.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for extension of time is granted and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée et la demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Obligation of administrative tribunal to provide reasons for  decisions - Definition of a  “significant issue”.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

26000               HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN v. DIVERSIFIED HOLDINGS LTD. (F.C.A.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Taxation - Assessment - Business Tax - Purchase of non-capital losses - Whether business of an acquired company was carried on after amalgamation for the purpose of carrying forward and claiming pre-amalgamation, non-capital losses of the acquired company - Definition of “business” in subsection 111(5)(a)(i).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

March 18, 1997

Federal Court of Appeal

(Strayer, Hugessen and Desjardins JJ.A.)

Appeal and cross-appeal dismissed

May 16, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

26087               LYNANNE BECK v. PAUL WAYNE BECK (Sask.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Family law - Division of Property - Interspousal agreement - Whether the Court of Appeal improperly assessed the requirement for disclosure of assets with respect to interspousal contracts - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in concluding that the interspousal agreement was not unconscionable or grossly unfair.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

July 4, 1996

Queen’s Bench of Saskatchewan

(Malone J.)

Applicant’s action allowed in part: custody granted to the Respondent; interspousal agreement upheld; Applicant awarded spousal support

June 4, 1997

Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan

(Gerwing, Sherstobitoff, Lane JJ.A.)

Applicant’s appeal dismissed: interspousal agreement upheld; Toyota truck ordered to be added to list of assets

June 16, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

26044                    ANTHONY CARL MOORE v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(B.C.)

CORAM:               L'Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and Iacobucci JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Directed verdict - Unreasonable verdict - Whether the trial judge erred in refusing to grant the Applicant’s application for a directed verdict - Whether the verdict was reasonable and supported by the evidence - First degree murder - Planning and deliberation - Whether the trial judge erred in failing to instruct the jury that evidence of an attempt to conceal the murder should not be considered as planning and deliberation - Procedure - Whether the Applicant’s right to make full answer and defence was violated because he addressed the just first - Whether the Applicant can raise this issue when it was not raised at trial.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25957                    HAGOP KUYUMCUOGLU v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Ont.)

CORAM:               L'Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and Iacobucci JJ.

The application for extension of time is granted and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée et la demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Credibility .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25829                    GABRIEL SIOUI c. LE SOUS-MINISTRE DU REVENU DU QUÉBEC et LE PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

La requête visant à produire un document additionnel à l’appui de la demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée et la demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

The application to introduce a new document in support of the application for leave to appeal is granted and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.