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August 29, 1997  1408 - 1489                                                              le 29 août 1997

CONTENTS                                                   TABLE DES MATIÈRES

The Golden Griddle Corporation

Allan D.J. Dick

Goodman and Carr

v. (26101)

The Corporation of the City of Toronto (Ont.)

Diane W. Dimmer

City of Toronto Legal Dept.

FILING DATE 17.7.1997

Touche Ross & Co.

Robert P. Armstrong, Q.C.

Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington

v. (26118)

Stephen Kripps et al. (B.C.)

Glen A. Urquhart

Singleton, Urquhart, MacDonald

FILING DATE 24.6.1997

Dr. David Gerald Brough

C.E. Hinkson, Q.C.

Harper Grey Easton

v. (26124)

Brian Louis de la Giroday et al. (B.C.)

David Lunny

Devlin Jensen

FILING DATE 11.7.1997

William D. Thomas

Sidney Green, Q.C.

Inkster, Christie, Hughes, MacKay

v. (26125)

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

W.G. McFetridge

A.G. of Manitoba

FILING DATE 17.7.1997

Eddie McDowall

Eddie McDowall

v. (26127)

Tamara Terry-Anne Showdra (Ont.)

Robert J. Gray

Iacono Brown

FILING DATE 2.6.1997

Thomas Richard Nelson

James Lockyer

Pinkofsky, Lockyer

v. (26130)

Her Majesty The Queen (Ont.)

Min. of the A.G. of Ontario

FILING DATE 28.7.1997

Raymond Desfossés

Jack Waissman

Laurin Frigon Waissman Cliche et Assoc.

v. (26131)

Allan Rock, Minister of Justice of Canada (F.C.A.)

David I. Lucas

A.G. of Canada

FILING DATE 25.7.1997

Succession Clément Guillemette et al.

Richard Mailhot

Mailhot, Drapeau

c. (25617)

J.M. Asbestos Inc. et al. (Qué.)

Philippe Casgrain

Byers Casgrain

DATE DE PRODUCTION 5.8.1997

Thisdèle et Monette Inc. et al.

André Asselin

Asselin & Asselin

c. (26133)

Corporation municipale de Val-David (Qué.)

Stéphane Sansfaçon

Prévost, Auclair, Fortin, D’Aoust

DATE DE PRODUCTION 25.7.1997

Greif Containers Ltd.

Leah Price

Beard, Winter

v. (26065)

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

Robin Carter

Dept. of Justice

FILING DATE 30.7.1997

Sahar Elguindi

Harvey S. Stone

Borden & Elliot

v. (26090)

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

M.I. Thomas

Dept. of Justice

FILING DATE 31.7.1997

Delroy Cain

Clayton C. Ruby

Ruby & Edwardh

v. (26132)

Her Majesty The Queen (Ont.)

David Finley

Min. of the A.G.

FILING DATE 28.7.1997

Gan Canada Insurance Co.

Harry P. Brown

Iacono Brown

v. (26135)

Priya Prasad (Ont.)

R. Shawn Stringer

Markowitz & Assoc.

FILING DATE 29.7.1997

Henry John Sava

Henry John Sava

v. (26136)

T.P. Bates personally and Borden & Elliot, Solicitors et al. (Ont.)

T.P. Bates

Borden and Elliot

FILING DATE 29.7.1997

Benjamin Montplaisir-Lessard

Michel Le Brun

c. (26137)

Sa Majesté La Reine (Qué.)

Carole Lebeuf

Subs. du procureur général du Québec

DATE DE PRODUCTION 8.8.1997

Francine Lessard

Francine Lessard

c. (26138)

Sa Majesté La Reine et al. (Qué.)

Carole Lebeuf

Subs. du procureur général du Québec

DATE DE PRODUCTION 8.8.1997

Ville de Montréal

Serge Barrière

Jalbert, Séguin, Verdon, Caron, Mahoney, s.e.n.c.

c. (26139)

Hydro-Québec et al. (Qué.)

Dominique Piché

Marchand, Lemieux

DATE DE PRODUCTION 6.8.1997

Patrick O’Brien et al.

Frank S. Borowicz

Davis & Co.

v. (26140)

Board of School Trustees of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) et al.  (B.C.)

J. Stuart Clyne, Q.C.

Harris & Co.

FILING DATE 6.8.1997

Marcel Parisé

Marc-Antoine St-Pierre

Wenaas, St-Pierre & Assoc.

c. (26072)

Sous-ministre du Revenu du Québec (Qué.)

Michel Dansereau

Veillette & Assoc.

DATE DE PRODUCTION 20.8.1997

Thomas A. Goodman et al.

William S. Gange

Suche Gange

v. (26141)

Royal Insurance Co. of Canada (Man.)

Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson

FILING DATE 13.8.1997

Sydney Ryan Lunn

John L. MacDougall, Q.C.

MacLeod, MacDougall, Crane & Parkman

v. (26143)

Her Majesty The Queen (P.E.I.)

Valerie A. Moore

Crown Prosecutors’ Office

FILING DATE 6.8.1997

Her Majesty The Queen

Trevor Shaw

Min. of the A.G.

v. (26146)

Anthony Dexter Browne (Ont.)

Russell Silverstein

Pinkofsky, Lockyer, Kwinter

FILING DATE 14.8.1997

P.H.D.L. Holdings Ltd. et al.

John L. MacDougall, Q.C.

MacLeod, MacDougall, Crane & Parkman

v. (26142)

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

Paul Plourde, Q.C.

A.G. of Canada

FILING DATE 6.8.1997

Placements Marcel Lauzon Ltée et al.

Philippe Casgrain, c.r.

Byers Casgrain

c. (26144)

Gilles Bolduc et al. (Qué.)

Hélène Lefebvre

Ogilvy, Renault

DATE DE PRODUCTION 13.8.1997

Marilyn Williams

Isabel J. Schurman

Lapointe, Schachter, Champagne & Talbot

c. (26145)

Sa Majesté La Reine (Qué.)

Lucie Archambault

P.G. du Québec

DATE DE PRODUCTION 13.8.1997

Nabisco Brands Canada Ltée et al.

Karl Delwaide

Martineau Walker

c. (26147)

Fédération québécoise des producteurs de fruits et légumes de transformation et al. (Qué.)

Claude Savoie

Guy & Gilbert

DATE DE PRODUCTION 14.8.1997

Cape Breton Beverages Ltd. et al.

Joel E. Fichaud, Q.C.

Patterson Palmer Hunt Murphy

v. (26148)

The A.G. of Nova Scotia, representing Her Majesty The Queen in Right of the Province of Nova Scotia (N.S.)

Louise Walsh-Poirier

Dept. of Justice

FILING DATE 19.8.1997

Michael John Mercury

David M. Brown

Stikeman, Elliott

v. (26149)

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

Tom G. Hague

A.G. of Manitoba

FILING DATE 20.8.1997

David Kevin Lindsay

David Kevin Lindsay

v. (26150)

Her Majesty The Queen (Man.)

Dale Schille

A.G. of Manitoba

FILING DATE 12.8.1997

Cynthia Dobson

Henry J. Murphy

Murphy Collette Murphy

v. (26152)

Ryan Leigh MacLean Dobson by his litigation guardian, Gerald M. Price (N.B.)

James W.A. MacAulay

Bingham Rideout Brison Blair

FILING DATE 22.8.1997

Thomas William Zegil

Walter C. Wieckowski

v. (26153)

Diane Carol Opie (Ont.)

Stephen M. Grant

Gowling, Strathy & Henderson

FILING DATE 22.8.1997

Dame Chantal Deschamps

René Martel

Cleary Martel

c. (26154)

Le procureur général du Canada (C.A.F.)(Qué.)

Dominique Gagné

Min. de la Justice

DATE DE PRODUCTION 25.8.1997

Martin Labelle

Christian Desrosiers

Desrosiers, Turcotte, Groulx

c. (26157)

Sa Majesté La Reine (Qué.)

Henri-Pierre Labrie

Subs. procureur général

DATE DE PRODUCTION 25.8.1997

JULY 18, 1997 / LE 18 JUILLET 1997

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                          Howard S. White

                                                                                                v. (25983)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Ineffective assistance of counsel - Did the Court of Appeal apply the wrong test in its determination of whether the Applicant had been denied the effective assistance of counsel - Trial within a reasonable time - Did the Court of Appeal err in its analysis of s. 11(b) of the Charter by attributing the delay while the Applicant was a fugitive from Canadian justice to the Applicant.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                    M.J.B. Enterprises Ltd.

                                                                                                v. (25975)

                          Defence Construction (1951) Limited and the said Defence Construction (1951) Limited

                                      carrying on business under the name of Defence Construction Canada and

                                                                 the said Defence Construction Canada (Alta.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Contracts - Invitation to tender - Privilege clause - Damages - Whether the Court of Appeal properly interpreted the privilege clause in an invitation for tenders - Whether damages should be calculated with reference to the cost of preparing the tender or the lost overhead revenue and profit.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                            Laurentian Pacific Insurance Company and Gavin Lawrence Holmes

                                                                                                v. (25955)

                                                             General Accident Assurance Company of Canada

AND BETWEEN:

                                                                                              Randy Swan

                                                                                                        v.

                                                         Gavin Lawrence Holmes and Cars for Less Ltd. (Alta.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial Law - Insurance - Motor Vehicles - Which of two insurers should be responsible for a claim resulting from a motor vehicle accident - Vehicle’s owner turned vehicle over to an employee of a service business who was driving the car in the course of carrying out the service activity at the time of an accident - Whether insurer of vehicle owner or of service company’s employee responsible for claim - Section 181 of the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.A. 1980 c. H‑7 - Section 309 of the Insurance Act, R.S.A. 1980, c. 1‑5.

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

                                                                                      Pierre Moreault Ltée

                                                                                                c. (25817)

                                                                                        Michel Sauvé et al.

                                                                                                     - et -

                                                                       La Régie des rentes du Québec (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail - Pensions - Convention collective - Législation - Interprétation - Surplus accumulé dans une caisse de retraite -  Stipulation pour autrui - Patrimoine d’affectation - Régime de retraite non contributif à prestations déterminées administré par une compagnie d’assurance-vie - Régime intégré comme annexe à la convention collective - La Cour d’appel, à la majorité, a-t-elle erré en concluant que l’employeur n’avait pas droit au surplus? - A-t-elle erré en concluant que la stipulation pour autrui créée en faveur des employés s’étendait au surplus de la caisse par l’effet de l’art. 3.13 du Règlement adopté sous l’autorité de la Loi des régimes supplémentaires de rentes et que l’employeur ne pouvait modifier unilatéralement le régime de façon à retirer ce droit acquis aux employés? - Schmidt c. Air Products Canada Ltd., [1994] 2 R.C.S. 611.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

CORAM: La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Gonthier et Major

                                                                                        The City of Calgary

                                                                                                v. (25979)

                                                                       The Calgary Police Association (Alta.)

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

                                                                 Bara Academy of Business Sciences Limited

                                                                                          and Mary L. Bara

                                                                                                v. (26036)

                                                                   Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta

                                                                        and Andrew M. (Andy) Hendry (Alta.)

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

                                                                 Bara Academy of Business Sciences Limited

                                                                                          and Mary L. Bara

                                                                                                v. (26037)

                                                                   Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta

                                                                        and Andrew M. (Andy) Hendry (Alta.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Action - Costs - Security for costs.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                              Nandu Patel

                                                                                                v. (25997)

                                              Department of National Health and Welfare Canada (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

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

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

                                                                                            Vicky Karpeta

                                                                                                v. (25985)

                                                                                     CIRC Radio Inc. (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural Law - Pre-trial Procedure - Summary Judgment - Whether there were genuine issues for trial - Adequacy of reasons for dismissing action.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Joseph Howard Peacock, Nicholas William Morin, John Robert McGillis,

Barney Ward, Percy William Papin, Raymond Cardinal, Kathleen Thomas,

Pearl Louise Cardinal, Clifford Ward, Romeo Morin on behalf of The Enoch Band

of the Stony Plain Indian Reserve No. 135 and Enoch Tribal Administrative

                                                                                                v. (25962)

Irene Morin, Bank of Montreal, the Toronto Dominion Bank

and Peace Hills Trust Company (Alta.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Bank/banking operations - Bills of exchange - Statutes - Interpretation - Bills of Exchange Act , R.S.C. 1985, c.B-4, s.48(4)  - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that s.48(4)  of the Bills of Exchange Act  protects a Collecting Bank - Whether a short limitation in a federal statute prevails over a longer limitation in a provincial statute for a common law remedy - Whether the Court can relieve against the effect of section 48  if the Collecting Bank had actual notice of the forgeries within a year, but not written notice.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                         Olds Aviation Ltd.

                                                                                                v. (25965)

                                    Timothy D. McFetridge, Executor of the Estate of Kent George McBain Ward,

                                  deceased, and Jonathan Kent Neale Ward, an Infant, by his next friend, Timothy

                                                       D. McFetridge and Catherine Joanne Neale Ward (Alta.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commerical law - Insurance law - Procedural law - Appeal - Whether an insurer has a right to defend the insured pursuant to the defence obligation in the contract of insurance where there is a denial of coverage, without having to produce evidence of express authorization or ratification of authority by the insured.                       

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

April 12, 1996

Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta (Lee J.)

Respondents’ action for damages allowed: damages assessed

JULY 25, 1997 / LE 25 JUILLET 1997

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                      Dennis David Wilson

                                                                                                v. (25970)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Disclosure - Incest - Indecent assault - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Applicant could not cross-examine the complainant on whether she agreed to DNA testing - Whether evidence of sexual impropriety between the Applicant and complainant prior to the period described in the indictment was admissible - Whether adoption records in the hands of the Ministry of Social Services were in the hands of the Crown for the purposes of disclosure - Whether the proper remedy if the Applicant was prevented from making full answer and defence was a stay of proceedings or whether a new trial should be ordered together with an order for DNA testing - Whether the Applicant should have been tried as a young offender.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                           Jeannine Godin

                                                                                                v. (26005)

                                                                 Minister of Health and Community Services,

                                                    Law Society of New Brunswick, Legal Aid New Brunswick,

                                          Attorney General of New Brunswick and the Minister of Justice (N.B.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Constitutional Law - Family Law - Custody - Whether parents have a Charter right to state-funded counsel when opposing Ministerial applications to take or extend custody of their children.

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

                                                                                         Léo Montambeault

                                                                                                c. (25808)

                                 Pierre Brazeau et la Commission d’appel en matière de lésions professionnelles

                                                                                                        et

                           Le Procureur général du Québec, la Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail

                                                                                   et la Ville de Lévis (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Libertés publiques - Impartialité et indépendance de la Commission d’appel en matière de lésions professionnelles (ci-après la “CALP”) - Financement, indépendance et encadrement des commissaires -  Le mode de financement de la CALP, prévu à l’article 394 de la Loi sur les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles, L.R.Q., chap. A-3.001 (ci-après la “L.A.T.M.P.”), porte-t-il atteinte à son image de tribunal indépendant et impartial ? - Les articles 367 et 368 de la L.A.T.M.P. qui créent la CALP et le statut de commissaire, contiennent-ils des garanties suffisantes pour assurer leur indépendance dans le respect de l’article 23 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, L.R.Q., chap. C-12? - La politique d’évaluation de rendement respecte-t-elle la sécurité financière des commissaires et, partant, leur indépendance face à l’exécutif? - L’encadrement institutionnel pouvait-il porter atteinte à la liberté du commissaire de décider seul des questions de faits et de droit qui lui étaient soumises ?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                                                Irénée Roy

                                                                                                c. (25843)

                                                                                      Jacques Sauvé (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Procédure - Procédure civile - Appel - Requête en rejet d’appel en vertu de l’art. 501(5) du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. C-25 - Action en dommages-intérêts intentée par le demandeur contre l’intimé pour faute professionnelle rejetée par la Cour supérieure - Requête de l’intimé visant à faire rejeter le pourvoi du demandeur interjeté devant la Cour d’appel en raison de son caractère abusif ou dilatoire - Pourvoi rejeté au motif qu’il n’a aucune chance de succès - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en rejetant le pourvoi eu égard aux motifs d’appel multiples qui méritaient l’attention de la Cour?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                                                   M.B.B.

                                                                                                c. (25915)

                                                                                      Huguette Pagé (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Procédures - Procédure civile - Action en diffamation intentée contre l’intimée - Article 35 de la Loi sur la protection de la jeunesse, L.R.Q., chap. P-34.1 - Actes de l’intimée accomplis de bonne foi dans l’exécution de ses fonctions - Requête de l’intimée en irrecevabilité accueillie en Cour supérieure - Appel du demandeur - Requête de l’intimée en rejet d’appel fondée sur l’article 501.1 du Code de procédure civile accueillie en Cour d’appel et appel du demandeur rejeté - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur en accordant la requête de l’intimée en rejet d’appel?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

CORAM: La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Gonthier et Major

                                                  Triple Five Corporation Ltd. and West Edmonton Mall Limited

                                                                                                v. (25991)

Simcoe & Erie Group, Simcoe & Erie Insurance Company, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Halifax Insurance Company, Halifax Insurance Company of Canada, Scottish &

York Insurance Company Limited, U.S.F. & G. Insurance Company of Canada, United States Fidelity & Guarantee Company, Allstate Insurance Company of Canada, Allstate Insurance Company, Commonwealth Insurance Company, Reandex Home International Ltd., Laurentian Pacific Insurance Company, Continental Insurance Company, Canadian General Insurance Company, Phoenix Continental Management Ltd. (Alta.)

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

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

                                                                                   Fednav International Ltd.

                                                                                                v. (25961)

                                                  Sidmar N.V., TradeArbed Inc., all others having an interest in

                                         the cargo laden on board the M.V. “Federal Mackenzie” (F.C.A.)(Qué.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Maritime law - Contracts - Carriage of goods - Whether a written suit time extension letter is a separate contract from the initial contract of carriage by sea, or simply an amendment to that contract.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

AUGUST 1, 1997 / LE 1 AOÛT 1997

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                              James Webb

                                                                                                v. (25999)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Informer privilege - Whether the Crown could claim informer privilege where the informer was a participant in the alleged criminal act - Whether disclosing the identity of the informer at trial affected the validity of the search warrant - Reply evidence - Whether the trial judge erred in allowing the Crown to call the informer in reply - Sentencing - Whether the Applicant should benefit from a change in the law of possession of stolen goods so as to receive a decrease in sentence.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                     Federated Insurance Company of Canada

                                                                                                v. (25998)

                                                               Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation (Man.)

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

                                                                                 Sheldon S. Richmond et al.

                                                                                                v. (26017)

Attorney General of Canada (Public Service Commission of Canada,

Department of National Defence, Revenue Canada, Customs & Excise) (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Civil rights - Labour law - Administrative law - Judicial review - Adverse effect discrimination - Duty to accomodate - Did the employer satisfy its duty to accommodate when it denied Jewish employees leave with pay to observe Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana - Does paid leave for religious holidays result in reverse discrimination where employees could make up the time off for religious holidays - Does the duty to accommodate require the employer to make only a reasonable offer of accommodation, or is the employer required to provide the most beneficial accommodation up to the point of undue hardship.

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

                                                                                         Dr. V.I. Fabrikant

                                                                                                v. (25850)

                                                                                Concordia University (Qué.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Did Barbeau J.C.S. err in hearing the Respondent’s submissions on the motion to dismiss in the absence of the Applicant?- Should Beauregard J.C.A. have been recused from considering this case?- Did the lower courts err in dismissing the Applicant’s action?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

February 7, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

                                                                                         Marthe Mongrain

                                                                                                c. (25861)

                                                      Compagnie d’assurance générale Les Coopérants (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Code civil - Assurance - Hypothèques - Exercice de la clause de dation en paiement - Sinistre - Droit à l’indemnité d’assurance - Interprétation de la clause d’exclusion du contrat d’assurance - La Cour d’appel est-elle intervenue indûment dans les conclusions de fait du juge de première instance? - L’assurée perd-elle tout intérêt assurable ou tout droit à l’indemnité si, entre la date du sinistre et le moment où l’assureur peut être obligé de couvrir les dommages, elle perd l’immeuble assuré par suite de l’exercice de la clause de dation en paiement?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                                                     B.C.

                                                                                                c. (25920)

                                                                                             M.E.K. (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit de la famille - Divorce - Aliments - Appel - Compétence - Une Cour d’appel a-t-elle compétence pour intervenir rétroactivement afin de modifier une ordonnance alimentaire rendue dans le cadre des mesures accessoires et ainsi établir un trop-perçu par la créancière alimentaire sans examiner l’ensemble des mesures accessoires établies par le juge de première instance? - Le défaut d’obtenir la suspension de l’exécution malgré l’appel d’une ordonnance alimentaire est-il sans conséquence pour le débiteur et sans conséquence quant aux pouvoirs d’une Cour d’appel d’intervenir rétroactivement? - Un trop-perçu de 18 737,34$, par l’effet rétroactif du jugement de la Cour d’appel, est-il manifestement déraisonnable en raison de la situation de la demanderesse?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

                                                                   Frymeta Kirschenbaum Green, ès qualités

                                                                                                v. (25841)

                                                                                 Dr. Hyman Surchin (Qué.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Civil Code - Negligence - Professional liability - Causation - Medical malpractice - What is a plaintiff’s burden of proof  to establish causation in medical malpractice cases - Could the patient’s cardiac arrest have been avoided or delayed if the Respondent had not abandoned him - Athey v. Leonati, [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458 - Snell v. Farrell, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 311 - Laferrière v.  Lawson, [1991] 1 S.C.R. 541.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM: La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Gonthier et Major

                                                                                         Ryan Robert Reed

                                                                                                v. (25820)

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

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

                                                                                    Gordon Denis Gillespie

                                                                                                v. (26061)

                                                                       Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(Man.)

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

                                                                                      Louis Ludwik Furtak

                                                                                                v. (26117)

                                                                             Her Majesty The Queen (Man.)

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

                     Veronika Hublall, carrying on business under the firm name and style of Ronnie’s Hair Salon

                                                                                                v. (25916)

                                                                                        Wilma Mills (Ont.)

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

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

                                                                                       Anthony Carl Moore

                                                                                                v. (26044)

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

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

                                                                                       Hagop Kuyumcuoglu

                                                                                                v. (25957)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Credibility .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                             Gabriel Sioui

                                                                                                c. (25829)

                                Le Sous-ministre du Revenu du Québec et le Procureur général du Québec (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Indiens - Droit fiscal - Droit constitutionnel - Libertés publiques - Taxe de vente - Ordonnance de fermeture d’un commerce exploité sur une réserve indienne et non inscrit au registre de la taxe de vente - Traité de Murray - Le Traité de Murray, combiné à l’art. 88  de la Loi sur les Indiens , L.R.C. 1985, ch. I-5 , rend-il inapplicable au demandeur l’art. 422 de la Loi sur la taxe de vente du Québec, L.R.Q., ch. T-0.1? - L’article 68.1 de la Loi sur le ministère du Revenu, L.R.Q., ch. M-31, est-il inconstitutionnel, vu les articles 6 et 23 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, L.R.Q., ch. C-12? - La demande de cautionnement est-elle nulle?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

AUGUST 8, 1997 / LE 8 AOÛT 1997

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                     Michelle Marie Pierce

                                                                                                v. (25885)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Sentencing - Conditional sentencing - Whether the imposition of a conditional sentence pursuant to s. 742.1  of the Criminal Code  should involve a two-step process in which the court first determines the appropriate length of sentence taking into consideration ss. 718, 718.1 and 718.2, and then determines if the sentence should be served in the community pursuant to s. 742.1 without recourse to s. 718.2 - Whether the phrase “endanger the safety of the community” in s. 742.1 is restricted to a determination of whether the offender is likely to re-offend.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                            Commercial Union Assurance Company of Canada

                                                                                                v. (26006)

City of Surrey, Ricketts-Sewell, Imperial Paving Ltd., Interpave Precast Systems, Labour Standards Board, Vanport Enterprises Ltd., Coast Tractor, Midpoint Sand & Gravel, Western Supplies Ltd., RDM Enterprises Ltd., KWH Pipe, Jack Cewe Ltd., Columbia Bitulithic, Construction Aggregates, Delta Turf Farms, Mainland Sand, Pacific View Contracting, McCallum Concrete, Action Excavating, Pacific Pre Benched Ltd., Nordell Trucking, View Point Sand & Gravel, ABC Pipe Cleaning, Arctic Portable Building,

AE Concrete Precast Products, Thompson Trucking (B.C.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Contracts - Mechanics’ liens - Subrogation - Set-off - Constructive receipt - Statutes - Interpretation - Law and Equity Act, R.S.B.C.1979, c.40, s.30 - Whether trust rights attach to the subject funds - Whether Noranda Explorations Co. Ltd. v. Sigurdson, [1976] 1 S.C.R. 296 applies - Whether the principle of constructive receipt applies.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                           Lillian Dorfman

                                                                                                v. (25903)

                                                                               The National Trust Co. (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Actions - Appeal - Whether Court of Appeal erred in law in determining that the Applicant consented to the dismissal of her case - Whether Court of Appeal for Ontario erred in law in refusing to exercise its discretion to extend the time to the Applicant to permit her to apply for leave to appeal - Whether the Court of Appeal for Ontario erred in law in quashing appeal - Whether adequate reasons for Court of Appeal decision.

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

                                                                                 Construction McNicoll Inc.

                                                                                                c. (25873)

                                                          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.)

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

CORAM: La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Gonthier et Major

Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, Local 662, Jean Dearman, Gloria Rafuse, Cindy Milligan, Linda Rafuse, Patricia Hubley

v. (25993)

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.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

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

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                    Her Majesty the Queen

                                                                                                v. (26000)

                                                                      Diversified Holdings Ltd. (F.C.A.)(B.C.)

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

                                                                                            Lynanne Beck

                                                                                                v. (26087)

                                                                                  Paul Wayne Beck (Sask.)

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

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé et Sopinka et Iacobucci

                                              Syndicat de l’enseignement de Lanaudière et Martin Vaillancourt

                                                                                                c. (25874)

                                                                   Commission scolaire de Le Gardeur (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail- Arbitrage - Convention collective - Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - Écoles - Congédiement - Équité procédurale - Partialité - Au terme de la convention collective, l’arbitre a-t-il rendu une décision manifestement déraisonnable en concluant au droit du demandeur à l’équité procédurale et en concluant que le Conseil des commissaires convoqué pour décider de la résiliation de son contrat présentait les apparences de partialité? - Subsidiairement, en tout état de cause, l’arbitre nommé en vertu du Code du travail avait-il le pouvoir d’appliquer les règles de la common law et quelle est la norme de contrôle judiciaire alors applicable? - En l’espèce, l’arbitre a-t-il commis un excès de juridiction en déterminant que le demandeur  avait droit à l’équité procédurale et que les conditions de celle-ci n’ont pas été remplies? - Knight c. Indian Head School Division No. 19, [1990] 1 R.C.S. 653.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Vernon Frederick Gale, as Administrator De Bonis Non

of the Estate of Brian Charles Gale, Kelly Ann Cloutier,

Tyler Warren Cloutier, an infant who sues by his

grandmother and next friend Therese Marie Gale,

the said Vernon Frederick Gale, as Executor of the

Last Will and Testament of the said Therese Marie Gale,

Vernon Frederick Gale, Gordon Robert Gale, John Paul Gale,

Vernon Harry Gale, Marguerite Ruth McAree

and Theresa Rene Beerman,

                                                                                                v. (26002)

Robin Alexander Hominick, Ethel Hominick,

John Lesko and Robert Joseph Lewis Pouliot (Man.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter  - Civil - Statutes - Interpretation - Civil Rights - Whether the courts erred in concluding that the definition of “wife” as found in The Fatal Accidents Act, R.S.M. 1970, c. F50 did not include a common law wife - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Human Rights Code, C.C.S.M.,  c. H175 is not retrospective legislation - Whether the courts erred in holding that s. 15  of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  did not apply.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION -- REHEARING /

DEMANDE DE RÉEXAMEN -- NOUVELLE AUDITION

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

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

Lina Germain c. Procureur général du Québec (Qué.)(25693)

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

1.  Leonardo G. Galuego v. Ms. Carol Hensley et al. (F.C.A.)(Ont.)(25806)

2.  Réal Melanson c. Université de Montréal, et al. (Qué.)(25678)

CORAM: La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Gonthier et Major

Wade Gerald Fleet v. Her Majesty The Queen (Crim.)(N.S.)(25863)

AUGUST 15, 1997 / LE 15 AOÛT 1997

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                                      E.H.

                                                                                                v. (25321)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Jurisdiction - Whether the Court of Appeal has jurisdiction to re-open an appeal that has been disposed of on its merits - Unreasonable verdict - Appellate review - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in concluding that its statutory duty to review convictions for reasonableness was not sufficiently broad to enable the court to reverse a conviction based on evidence that if of dubious quality and leaves the Court of Appeal with a sense of uneasiness - Whether the verdicts were reasonable - Whether the trial judge erred in relying on the expert evidence as supportive of the complainant’s credibility.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                          Louis Rhingo (a.k.a. Louie Malier)

                                                                                                v. (26001)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Jurisdiction - Whether the Court of Appeal has jurisdiction to re-open an appeal that has been disposed of on its merits - Not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder - Fitness to stand trial - Whether the trial judge erred in refusing to adjourn the fitness/responsibility hearing to allow the Applicant to retain new counsel - Whether the trial judge breached s. 672.24  of the Criminal Code  by refusing to allow the Applicant an adjournment to retain new counsel - Whether the trial judge’s failure to appoint counsel to represent the Applicant at the responsibility hearing rendered the hearing unfair .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

December 22, 1992

Ontario Court (Provincial Division) (McGowan P.C.J.)

Conviction: Uttering death threat.  Applicant found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder

December 20, 1993

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Morden A.C.J.O., Catzman and Arbour JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

March 21, 1997

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Doherty, Austin and Charron JJ.A.)

Application to re-open appeal dismissed

May 20, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal conviction and application for leave to appeal dismissal of application to re-open appeal filed; Motion for the extension of time filed

                                                                              Vic Van Isle Construction Ltd.

                                                                                                v. (26015)

                                The Board of School Trustees of school district No.23 (Central Okanagan) (B.C.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Whether Court of Appeal erred in law in subverting the “integrity” of the bidding system as referred to in Ron Engineering & Construction (Eastern) Ltd. v. Ontario and Water Resources Commission, [1981] 1 S.C.R. 111 by the application of the doctrine of estoppel.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

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