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June 27, 1997  1208 - 1324 (INDEX)                                                      le 27 juin 1997

CONTENTS                                                   TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Edward Del Grande

Edward Mario Del Grande

v. (26053)

The Toronto Dominion Bank (Ont.)

David Rosenbaum

Fasken Campbell Godfrey

FILING DATE 6.6.1997

Carol Latouche

Bernard Blouin

Blouin Associés, S.E.N.C.

c. (26052)

Raymond Chabot Fafard Gagnon Inc. et al (Qué.)

Benoit Emery

Desjardins Ducharme Stein Monast, S.E.N.C.

DATE DE PRODUCTION 9.6.1997

Brigadier-General Ernest B. Beno

J. Bruce Carr-Harris

Larry A. Elliot

Scott & Aylen

v. (26058)

The Honourable Gilles Létourneau, Commissioner et al (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

Raynold Langlois, Q.C.

Langlois Gaudreau

FILING DATE 11.6.1997

Nicholas Yvon Bonamy

v. (26063)

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

Gregory B. Lepp

Attorney General of Alberta

FILING DATE 24.6.97

JUNE 20, 1997 / LE 20 JUIN 1997

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Cory et McLachlin

                                                                                              Bruce Clark

                                                                                                v. (25988)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Contempt of court - Jurisdiction.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                      Margaret Jean Clark

                                                                                                v. (25989)

                                                                        Her Majesty the Queen (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Taxation - Assessment - Jurisdiction -  Whether the courts below erred in their interpretation of Delgamuukw et al. v. The Queen in right of British Columbia et al., (1993) 104 D.L.R. (4th), 470 (B.C.C.A).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                       Florent Des Champs

                                                                                                v. (25898)

Conseil des Ecoles Separées Catholiques de la langue française de Prescott-Russell, Suzanne Charette, Roch Lalonde, Ronald Lalonde, R. Serge Lalonde, Helene Leblanc, Pierre Leblanc, Jean Lemay, Paul Paradis, Marcel Perras, Gilles Taillon, François Theoret, Jean-Paul Scott (Ont.)

AND BETWEEN:

Alfred Abouchar

                                                                                                v. (25899)

Conseil Scolaire de Langue française d’Ottawa-Carleton -Section Publique, Rosaire Leger, Superviseur et Sa Majesté La Reine en Chef d’Ontario (Ministère des Affaires Municipales) (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Limitation of actions -  Statutes - Interpretation - Whether the shortened limitation periods that attach to acts done in pursuance of a statutory or public duty apply to employment-related decisions - For those limitation periods which are extended due to continuance of damage, does the limitation period commence to run from the date of the last act or default causing the damage, or from the date of the last damage suffered.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                    The Gazette, une division de Southam Inc.

                                                                                                c. (25782)

                                                                            M.G., D.C., R.M., E.C., J.S., S.M.

                                                                      et la Communauté urbaine de Montréal

                                                                                                     - et -

                                      M^e Anne-Marie David, Alexandre Suazo, Olga Gomez, Lili Salinas Suazo et

                                                                           Ligue des Noirs du Québec (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Liberté de la presse - Ordonnance de non-publication - Coroner désigné en vertu de la Loi sur la recherche des causes et des circonstances des décès, L.R.Q. (1977), ch. R-0.2, pour enquêter sur les circonstances d’un décès - Ordonnance du coroner, aux termes de l’art. 146, interdisant la publication et la diffusion de toute information permettant d’identifier les policiers impliqués dans les circonstances du décès  - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en concluant qu’un tribunal peut, par le biais d’une ordonnance de non-publication, interdire aux médias de publier des faits qui sont déjà connus du public? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en concluant qu’un tribunal peut empêcher les médias de publier des faits connus du public même si l’ordonnance de non-publication ne pourra jamais remplir l’objectif qu’elle vise?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

CORAM: La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Gonthier et Major

                                                                                     Wayne Allen Cameron

                                                                                                v. (25774)

                                                                       Her Majesty The Queen (Crim.)(N.S.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Impaired driving - Presumption of accuracy - Whether the Court of Appeal correctly applied the rebuttable presumption of accuracy.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                   Gerald Bernard Klassen

                                                                                                v. (25939)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - First degree murder - Whether the trial judge should have charged the jury with respect to an intervening act of another in accordance with R. v. Harbottle, [1993] 3 S.C.R. 306 - Whether a charge to the jury in a murder trial should contain instructions regarding sentencing principles - Whether there was sufficient evidence to prove that the Applicant committed sexual assault

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

March 10, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia

(Blair J.)

Conviction: first degree murder

February 11, 1997

British Columbia Court of Appeal

(MacFarlane, Gibbs, Prowse JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

April 7, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

                                                                      Ontario New Home Warranty Program

                                                                                                v. (25897)

                                                             Sunforest Investment Corp. and Paul Wing (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property Law - Real Property - New Home Warranty Program ‑ Purchase of condominium units for investment purposes with intent to rent and possibly resell units ‑ Whether purchasers entitled to coverage under the Ontario New Home Warranties Plan Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.31 for deposits paid and damages incurred if vendor defaults. 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

October 31, 1995

Ontario Court (Divisional Court)

(O’Driscoll, White, Adams JJ.A.)

Appeal from Commercial Registration Appeal Tribunal dismissed

January 21, 1997

Ontario Court of Appeal

(McKinlay and Laskin JJ.A., Morden A.C.J.)

Appeal allowed

April 1, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed, application for a stay of judgment filed

April 17, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

(Major J.)

Extension of time to apply for leave to appeal granted; Application for stay discontinued

                                                                        Clarence Harnden and Vera Harnden

                                                                                                v. (25907)

                                                                                          Paul Kosir (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Torts - Arson - Proof of Tort - Appeal - Assessment of credibility and evidence - Whether there is a separate, unique, third burden of proving torts involving moral turpitude such as arson - The standard of proof required to prove civil cases involving arson - Whether the constituent elements of the tort of arson are different from the constituent elements of the crime of arson - Appellate courts substituting their own assessment of the credibility of witnesses and of the evidence in order to reach their own findings of fact - Overturning findings of fact and credibility in the absence of overriding and palpable error.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

NOTE

The Applicant, Clarence Harnden, passed away on June 20, 1996.  This application for leave to appeal is brought by Vera Harnden alone.

                                                                     Barbara L. Barron and Hubert J. Barron

                                                                                                v. (25947)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Taxation - Income Tax - Setting aside administrative tribunal’s decision on judicial review - Whether a reviewing judge properly set aside a Fairness Committee’s decision not to re-open statute barred taxation years in order to allow taxpayers to file amended returns and claim business losses.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

February 4, 1997

Federal Court of Appeal

(Pratte, Décary, Robertson JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed

April 4, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et Iacobucci

                                                                                Alexander Francois Thomas

                                                                                                v. (25943)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Appeal - Procedure - Judgments and Orders - Whether the Court of Appeal exceeded its jurisdiction by ordering, pursuant to s. 686(8)  of the Criminal Code , that the Applicant’s new trial be confined to the issue of whether the Applicant is guilty of second degree murder or manslaughter - If the Court of Appeal had jurisdiction to make such an order, whether it erred in concluding that the circumstances of this case were sufficiently exceptional to warrant making it - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in considering an affidavit filed by the Crown relating to exhibit destruction in the  absence of an application to adduce fresh evidence - Whether the restricted new trial ordered by the Court of Appeal violates the Applicant’s Charter  rights

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                                    P.S.L.

                                                                                                v. (25972)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Evidence - Trial - Whether Court of Appeal erred in law in upholding the learned trial judge’s ruling that the destruction of the complainant’s records by a transition house did not contravene the Applicant’s right to a fair trial pursuant to sections 7  and 11(d)  of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  and, further, did not justify the order of a judicial stay of proceedings of the trial pursuant to section 24(2)  of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Dr. Cherry J. Pike, Dr. Poh Gin Kwa and Dr. Nassir Badrudin

v. (25889)

Quintin Dennis, Lisa Marie Dennis and Alexander Dennis, an infant, by his Litigation Guardian Quintin Dennis and The Salvation Grace General Hospital Board (N.S.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

International - Conflict of laws - Procedural law - Courts - Jurisdiction - Whether the plaintiff or the defendant has the burden to prove jurisdiction where service has been effected ex juris - Whether a “real and substantial connection” sufficient to establish jurisdiction exists in Nova Scotia exists in the circumstances of this case - Whether the plaintiff or defendant has the burden to establish the appropriate forum under the doctrine of forum non conveniens.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                  Robert Leighton Cook, Robert M. Friedland,

                                                                       Peter Guest and Charles J.G. Russell

                                                                                                v. (25954)

                                                     Parcel, Mauro, Hultin & Spaanstra, P.C., a law firm (B.C.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

International - Conflict of laws - Procedural law - Courts - Jurisdiction - Prerogative writs - Solicitor-client privilege - Whether the law of solicitor-client privilege should be determined according to the law of British Columbia or Colorado in these circumstances - Whether the Applicants have individual rights of privilege over communications with the Respondent firm - What burden of proof applies to the plaintiff in cases of service ex juris - Whether Canadian courts can grant binding or injunctive relief against foreign defendants.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

                                                                                          Gary Rainthorpe

                                                                                                v. (25941)

                                                                                          David Rice (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Statutes - Interpretation - Property Law - Personal property - Maritime Law - Ships - Registration of ownership under the Canada Shipping Act , R.S.C. 1985, c. s‑9  - Enforcement of contractual, legal and equitable interests in a vessel against registered owner - Ordering change in registration.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

JUNE 19, 1997 / LE 19 JUIN 1997

(REVISED / RÉVISÉ)

25397                    THOMAS WHITE v. WOOLWORTH CANADA INC. (Nfld.)

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory and Major JJ.

The applications for leave to appeal and to cross-appeal are dismissed.  There is no order as to costs.

Les demandes d’autorisation d’appel et d’appel incident sont rejetées.  Il n’y a pas d’ordonnance quant aux dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Labour law - Commercial law - Contracts - Damages - Master and servant - Workers’ compensation - Whether the Court of Appeal errred in assessing damages for wrongful dismissal - Whether workers with back injuries require extended notice periods - Whether the manner of dismissal in this case requires punitive or aggravated damages - Applicability of the rule against double compensation in the context of an action for wrongful dismissal - Set-off of workers’ compensation benefits against pay in lieu of notice - Calcuation of the commencement of the notice period for the wrongful dismissal of an employee receiving workers’ compensation.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

JUNE 19, 1997 / LE 19 JUIN 1997

(REVISED / RÉVISÉ)

25703               COOPÉRATIVE DE COMMERCE “DES MILLES-ÎLES”, ANDRÉ MALO, PAUL BÉLANGER, PIERRE LAPORTE - c. - SOCIÉTÉ DES ALCOOLS DU QUÉBEC (S.A.Q.) ET LE PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

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

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

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

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Couronne - Droit commercial - Droit administratif - Responsabilité civile - Contrats - Obligation -  Injonction - Dommages-intérêts - Appel d’offres au public - Vente de succursales de la Société des alcools du Québec - Injonction permanente - Responsabilité de l’état - Dommages moraux - Exécution forcée de l’obligation de livrer une succursale - Tentative avortée de privatiser un certain nombre de succursales de la Société des alcools du Québec - Un contrat a-t-il été valablement formé entre la Société des alcools du Québec et les demandeurs, soumissionnaires, compte tenu que les décisions du Conseil des ministres remplacent celles du Conseil du trésor? - Le gouvernement et la Société des alcools du Québec sont-ils responsables en dommages à l’égard des demandeurs? - Application de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, L.R.Q. c. C-12, et de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Entente de procéder au moyen d’une cause-type - Effet d’un jugement dans une cause-type.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Le 28 février 1994

Cour Supérieure du Québec (Trudeau j.c.s.)

Action des demandeurs accueillie en partie

Le 23 août 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Lebel, Tourigny et Proulx jj.c.a.)

Appel principal des demandeurs rejeté; appel incident de la Société des alcools du Québec accueilli

Le 19 décembre 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel et demande de prorogation de délai déposées

JUNE 26, 1997 / LE 26 JUIN 1997

25827                    CHRISTOS ROUMANIS AND CHRISTOS ROUMANIS AND JACQUIE ROSCOE-ROUMANIS, CARRYING ON BUSINESS AND A PARTNERSHIP CALLED CANAL RESTAURANT, AND # 375582 B.C. LTD. - v. - MT. WASHINGTON SKI RESORT LTD. AND PAMELA MORRISON (B.C.)

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

Torts - Damages - Negligence - Whether the trial judge erred in making determinations of credibility - Whether the trial judge erred in his findings of fact.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25733               DANS L’AFFAIRE DE LA FAILLITE DE CLAUDE, ROCK, LOUIS ET ANDRÉE NAULT - CLAUDE GRATTON - c. - CLAUDE ROCK, LOUIS, ET ANDRÉE NAULT - ET - DRUKER ET ASSOCIÉS INC. (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

Procédure - Procédure civile - Jugements et ordonnances - Requête en rejet d’appel - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle commis un excès de juridiction lorsqu’elle a rejeté l’appel du demandeur sans motiver sa décision? - Lorsque la Cour d’appel rejette in limine litis un appel logé de plein droit par un justiciable, sans motiver sa décision, rend-elle illusoire l’exercice de son droit à une audition publique et impartiale de sa cause par un tribunal, tel que reconnu à l’art. 23 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, L.R.Q. (1977), ch. C-12? - L’absence de motifs rend-elle illusoire l’exercice du droit de demander à la Cour suprême du Canada l’autorisation d’en appeler, tel que reconnu à l’art. 40 de la Loi sur la Cour suprême?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

25814               STANLEY GORDON JOHNSON - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(N.S.)

CORAM:           The Chief Justice and Cory and McLachlin JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Indians - Taxation - Indian Act - Tobacco Tax Act, R.S.N.S. 1989, c.470 - Provincially imposed quotas on tax-free access to personal property by Indians - Application of s. 87  of the Indian Act to Indians who are retail vendors selling goods on Indian reserve lands - Whether there is a legal obligation upon Indians in possession of goods on reserve for resale on reserve to explain the circumstances of their possession.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25935               THIERRY GUGGISBERG - c. - SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Crim.)(Qué.)

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

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

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

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Preuve - Interprétation de l’arrêt R. c. Hundal, [1993] 1 R.C.S. 867 -  Le critère objectif modifié en matière de conduite dangereuse et de négligence criminelle a-t-il été bien appliqué? - A-t-on omis de reconnaître au demandeur, dans l’application du critère objectif modifié, la défense d’erreur de fait?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

25892                    JOHN LOUIS STEVENSON - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Alta.)

CORAM:           The Chief Justice and Cory and McLachlin JJ.

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

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Evidence - Charged with second degree murder - Whether the trial judge’s verdict was unreasonable and unsupported by the evidence - Whether the trial judge erred in applying R. v. Cooper (1977) 34 C.C.C. (2d) 18 as it related to finding guilt or innocence based on circumstantial evidence - Whether the trial judge erred in failing to give full consideration to the theory of the defence - Whether the trial judge erred in imposing the sentence.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25925               OWEN WAYNE LLOYD - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Alta.)

CORAM:           The Chief Justice and Cory and McLachlin 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 - Impaired driving - Right to counsel - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the Applicant’s right to counsel was not denied when the police officer arrested the Applicant prior to making the screening test demand.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25846               QATAR CENTRAL BANK - v. - AKRAM RAJA HIMADEH (Ont.)

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

International - Procedural law - Appeal - To what extent do the principles of international comity affect Canadian court proceedings involving foreign litigants - Is the “palpable and overriding error” test an acceptable standard of appellate review of findings of fact?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25912               PETER BRUCE GUNN - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Alta.)

CORAM:           The Chief Justice and Cory and McLachlin 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 - Obstructing a peace officer - Mens rea - Specific and general intent offences - Whether the offence of obstructing a peace officer requires a general or a specific intent - Whether the peace officer was in the execution of her duty at the time of the alleged offence - Whether Applicant could rely on defence that he was authorized by law to act in furtherance of the administration or enforcement of the law (s. 25(1)  Criminal Code ).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25872               THOMAS CRANWILL, AN INFANT BY HIS NEXT FRIEND ASHLEY CRANWILL, AND ASHLEY CRANWILL AND DEAN CRANWILL - v. - PETER NIEMAN - and - ROCKYVIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL, DR. MARY ELLEN JAMES, DR. PHILLIPA KEEGAN, DR. SYLVIA FOX AND DR. ROBERT J. SOMMERVILLE (Alta.)

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

Torts - Negligence - Causation - Evidence - Whether pediatrician’s negligence in diagnosis caused or contributed to an infant’s neurological injury - Whether Court of Appeal erred in substituting its own interpretation of the evidence and drawing conclusions unsupported by evidence.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25805               ROSAIRE DESBIENS - c. - SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE - e t - MONSIEUR LE JUGE SARTO CLOUTIER (Crim.)(Qué.)

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

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

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

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Preuve - Procédure préalable au procès - Stupéfiants - Enquête préliminaire -Erreur de compétence -  Application de l’arrêt Skogman c. R., [1988] 2 R.C.S. 93 -  La Cour d’appel s’est-elle mal dirigée en droit en autorisant le juge qui effectue la révision de substituer son opinion à celle du juge enquêteur? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle une conception erronée de la suffisance de la preuve dans le contexte d’une libération à l’enquête préliminaire.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

25901               WIGMORE CONSULTANTS LTD. AND RODNEY DENNIS WIGMORE - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Sask.)

CORAM:           The Chief Justice and Cory and McLachlin JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Procedure - Disclosure - Whether the Crown provided adequate disclosure to the Applicant - Incompetence of counsel - Whether Applicant’s counsel at trial was incompetent - Where the accused alleges incompetence of counsel, what is the appropriate inquiry for an appellate  court - What is the standard of proof imposed upon an accused who alleges incompetence of trial counsel - Discretion of trial judge - Whether the trial judge properly exercised his discretion to prevent the Applicant from calling evidence at the close of the Crown’s case when the Applicant had previously been provided several opportunities to respond to the Crown’s case - Whether the Applicant waived his right to a jury trial.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25891               ROGER CALLOW - v. - THE BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 45 (WEST VANCOUVER) AND WEST VANCOUVER TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA (B.C.)

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

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Standing - Labour Law - Labour Relations - Limitations on a union’s exclusive representation rights - Relationship between a court’s residual jurisdiction and a union’s exclusive representation right - Whether a court’s residual jurisdiction may be invoked to resolve a dispute arising under a collective agreement.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

January 17, 1997

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Hollinrake, Newbury and Huddart, JJ.A)

Appeal dismissed

March 14, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25785               MARC ST-CYR, NICHOLAS KWOK, NANCY KWOK ET FRANÇOIS DUPUIS - c. - THE MUTUAL TRUST COMPANY (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 International - Procédure - Droit international privé - Procédure civile - Jugements et ordonnances - Reconnaissance et exécution de jugement émanant d’une autre province canadienne  - Irrecevabilité d’une requête sous les art. 165(1) et 165(4) du Code de procédure civile  du Québec et règle audi alteram partem - Portée des contestations admissibles à l’encontre d’une requête en exemplification d’un  jugement  canadien - Admissibilité exceptionnelle des contestations reposant sur des dispositions d’application impératives ou d’ordre public - Compétence de la Cour supérieure d’entendre une demande reconventionnelle à l’encontre d’une requête en exemplification de jugement - Prescription des recours sous la Loi des valeurs mobilières, L.R.Q., ch. V-1.1, et incidence des délais fixés pour entamer des procédures judiciaires en vertu de cette loi.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Le 11 avril 1996

Cour supérieure (Vaillancourt j.c.s.)

Requêtes en irrecevabilité de l’intimée pour rejet des défenses et demandes reconventionnelles des demandeurs  rejetées

Le 29 mai 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec (Brossard j.c.a.)

Requête pour permission de faire appel d’un jugement interlocutoire accordée

Le 21 novembre 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Rothman, LeBel et Rousseau-Houle jj.c.a.)

Appel accueilli; défenses et demandes reconventionnelles des demandeurs rejetées

Le 20 janvier 1997

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

25902               S. BRYANT SMITH - v. - NEW BRUNSWICK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (N.B.)

CORAM:           The Chief Justice and 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

Procedural law - Actions - Civil Procedure - Pre-trial procedure - Motion to strike a statement of claim - Is the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission a suable entity? - Whether a legislature may limit the application of the Charter so as to restrict a Charter remedy.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25659               THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF THUNDER BAY v. DIRK OOSTHOEK and LUBBERTINA OOSTHOEK - and - THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF THUNDER BAY v. MAURICE NADEAU - and - THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF THUNDER BAY v. DWAIN BENNETT and GLENYS BENNETT - and - THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF THUNDER BAY v. LEONARD EDWARDS and LENORE EDWARDS (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 - Municipal law - Negligence - Nuisance - Is there any general duty on a municipality to enforce its by-laws, where no such duty is provided in the by-law itself? - To succeed with a defence of statutory authority and defeat a claim in nuisance, must a defendant show a duty to construct the offending municipal works, or only a power of authority to so construct the works? - To satisfy the doctrine of inevitable consequence, is a defendant required to prove only that the type of act which caused the injury was inevitable, or that the specific act itself was inevitable? - Does section 59 of the Ontario Water Resources Act, R.S.O. 1990 Ch. 0.40 afford a complete defence of statutory authority, or at least prima facie evidence of statutory authority, in respect of a claim arising out of a sewer back-up and grounded in nuisance?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

November 3, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Kurisko J.)

In all individual claims Applicants successful in nuisance and negligence

June 20, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Catzman, Carthy and Laskin JJ.A.)

Appeals heard together and dismissed

November 22, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25650               NORWAY HOUSE FIRST NATION v. SYLVAN CHADEE (Man.)

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

Indians - Crown law - Wrongful dismissal - Respondent’s employment as director of education for Applicant terminated without notice - Respondent awarded damages for wrongful dismissal - Is the Norway House First Nation, which is established pursuant to the Indian Act, entitled as a Crown authority administering governmental functions to regard an employee performing educational responsibility as appointed at pleasure and subject to termination at any time?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

September 27, 1996

Court of Queen’s Bench for Manitoba

(Galanchuk J.)

Respondent’s action for wrongful dismissal allowed

October 9, 1996

Court of Appeal of Manitoba

(Huband, Helper and Kroft JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

November 20, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25639               HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD. and SYNTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL LTD. 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 with costs.

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Patents - Statutory Interpretation - Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, SOR/93-133 - Whether facts alleged in Notice of Allegation sufficient to support claim of non-infringement pursuant to s. 5(1)(b)(iv) - Whether a claim for an intermediate useful in the preparation of a medicine is a “claim for the medicine itself” under the Regulations- Whether claim for the preparation of a medicine is a “claim for the medicine itself” under the Regulations.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

March 20, 1996

Federal Court of Canada (Trial Division) (Reed J.)

Minister prohibited from issuing a Notice of Compliance

September 18, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Stone, Linden and McDonald JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

November 18, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25640               HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD. and ELF SANOFI v . THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE and NU-PHARM INC. (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

Property law - Patents - Medicine - Statutory Interpretation - Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, SOR/93 -133 - Whether factual and legal basis that a patent contains “no claim for the medicine itself” and “no claim for the use of a medicine” is a proper legal and factual basis for an allegation of non-infringement under s. 5(1)(b)(iv) - Whether a claim for the preparation of a medicine itself is a “claim for the medicine itself” under the Regulations.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

March 20, 1996

Federal Court of Canada (Trial Division) (Reed J.)

Application for an order prohibiting the Minister of Health from issuing a Notice of Compliance dismissed

September 18, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Stone, Linden and McDonald JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

November 18, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25709               HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD. and SYNTEX (U.S.A.) INC. v. THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE and NU-PHARM INC. (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

Property law - Patents - Statutory Interpretation - Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, SOR/93 -133 - Evidence - Whether Court may assume truth of unsworn facts alleged in support of allegation in considering whether allegation is justified - If not, whether Court may impose burden of proof of such facts on second person where the facts are peculiarly within the knowledge of that person, and the first person has no such knowledge - Appeals - Whether Court of Appeal erred in limiting its analysis to textual infringement, and by not considering what in law constitutes patent infringement.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

March 20, 1996

Federal Court of Canada (Trial Division) (Reed J.)

Application for an order of prohibition against  the Respondent dismissed

September 18, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Stone, Linden and McDonald JJ.A)

Appeal dismissed

December 20, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25727               THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONCURRENCE OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL and THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO and THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO v. HIS HONOUR JUDGE W.P. HRYCIUK - and - THE HONOURABLE MADAM JUSTICE JEAN MacFARLAND, COMMISSIONER, THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY RE:  HIS HONOUR JUDGE W.P. HRYCIUK (Ont.)

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 - Judicial review - Jurisdiction - Prerogative writs - Statutes - Interpretation - Judges - Whether the Commission of Inquiry had jurisdiction under s.50 of the Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.C-43, to deal with complaints that had not been considered by the Judicial Council - Whether the report of the Commission of Inquiry was amenable to judicial review under the Judicial Review Procedure Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. J-1.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

November 24, 1993

Commission of Inquiry (MacFarland J.)

Recommendation that Hryciuk J. be removed from office

May 19, 1994

Ontario Court of Justice General Division (Divisional Court) (Hartt, Saunders and Dunnett JJ.)

Application for judicial review dismissed

November 4, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario (Catzman, Weiler and Abella JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed

January 7, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25731               GANNON BROS. ENERGY LTD. v. ROBERT LEMMONS & ASSOCIATES LTD. - and - GANNON BROS. ENERGY LTD. v. ROBERT LEMMONS & ASSOCIATES LTD., ARDEE EL RESOURCES LTD., ROBERT LEMMONS, THREE STAR TRUCKING LTD. and HORIZON RESOURCES LTD. - and - GANNON BROS. ENERGY LTD. v. DANBE RESOURCES LTD. - and - GANNON BROS. ENERGY LTD. and JOHN DOE, TRUSTEE OF “THE BLAIR TRUST” v. ARDEE EL RESOURCES LTD., ROBERT LEMMONS, IRENE LEMMONS, FRANCIS JOHN BENNETT, SALEM HOLDINGS LTD., ECHO RESOURCES INC., CASTLE RESOURCES LTD., AUDEX INDUSTRIES INC., VERNA MORSKY and RAND MORSKY (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

Commercial law - Contracts - Mines and minerals - Interpretation of Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen operating procedure agreement - Effect of The Engineering Profession Act, R.S.S. 1978, c.E-10, as rep. Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act, S.S. 1996, c.E-9.3 - Whether agreement is void for illegality - Whether a fiduciary relationship existed between the parties.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25768               PAUL FRANKLIN WATSON v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Nfld.)

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

Criminal law - Defence - Applicant convicted of unlawfully acting as a master of a vessel, without being the holder of a valid master’s certificate contrary to section 8(1)(a) of the Ships Deck Watch Regulations - Can the Court of Appeal reverse a finding of fact - Is a reasonable mistake of a regulation an excuse or defence.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25867               PHILLIP LINDSAY HOMAN v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN and THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA (Crim.)(Sask.)

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

Criminal law - Appeals - Habeas Corpus - Whether the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench judge erred in determining that she did not have jurisdiction to entertain an application for habeas corpus in respect of a detention ordered by the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench - Whether the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench judge erred in holding that habeas corpus ought not to be issued when other remedies are available.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25602               GEORGE ALEXANDER HARDY v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Alta.)

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

Criminal law - Adjournment - Whether the trial judge erred in not granting the Applicant an adjournment when his witness did not appear on the date set for trial - Whether the trial judge lost jurisdiction by setting a trial date in the Applicant’s absence - Whether the Court of Appeal must record its proceedings.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25740               A. GARY WEBSTER v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(P.E.I.)

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

Criminal law - Jury charge - Evidence - Applicant convicted of indecent assault, gross indecency and assault with intent to commit buggery on three complainants - Assaults taking place over a period of years commencing when complainants were nine years of age - Applicant not testifying at trial - Whether trial judge erred in instructing the jury with respect to similar fact evidence - Trial - Whether trial judge erred in charging the jury regarding reasonable doubt -Whether trial judge erred in failing to raise with the jury the possibility of collusion and collaboration of the witnesses - Whether Court of Appeal erred in applying s. 686(1)(b)(iii) of the Criminal   Code , R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 . (CMS - 39, 55, 137)

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25863               WADE GERALD FLEET v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(N.S.)

CORAM:           La Forest, Gonthier and Major JJ.

The application for extension of time is dismissed.

La demande de prorogation de délai est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Procedure - Whether the trial judge deprived the Applicant of his right to address the jury last - Whether the trial judge erred in charging the jury on opportunity where the sole issue before the jury was the intent of the Applicant to commit second or first degree murder - Planning and deliberation - Whether the trial judge adequately instructed the jury on planning and deliberation - Whether the trial judge’s Vetrovec warning was adequately clear and sharp.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25788               ANTHONY W.J. WHITFORD, DAVE TURNER and THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AS REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES v. SHEILA FULLOWKA, DOREEN SHAUNA HOURIE, TRACEY NEILL, JUDIT PANDEV, ELLA MAY CAROL RIGGS, DOREEN VODNOSKI, CARLENE DAWN ROWSELL, KAREN RUSSELL and BONNIE LOU SAWLER (NWT)

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

Procedural law - Civil Procedure - Pre-trial procedure - Striking out pleadings - Whether allegations based on a breach of a private law duty of care as regulators of the mining industry should be struck out - Did the Court of Appeal err in deciding that the Respondents’ amended statement of claim should not be struck out - Rules of Court [N.W.T.], Rule 124A(1)(a).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25813               LEONARD TOMAH v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(N.B.)

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 - Search and seizure - Whether the search warrant adequately particularized the things to be searched for - Whether the search warrant and the Information to Obtain Search Warrant provided a sufficient nexus between the things to be searched for and the offence described therein - Whether the trial judge improperly fettered the Applicant’s cross-examination of the informant.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25793               MODERN MARINE INDUSTRIES LTD., STEELFAB INDUSTRIES LTD., PARSONS ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION LTD., W.H. PARSONS LTD. and ROY PARSONS v. ZURICH INSURANCE CO. (Nfld.)

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

Commercial law - Guaranty/suretyship - Contracts - Contract of indemnity on a breached performance bond - Whether there is a doctrine of contractual good faith in common law that incorporates community standards of honesty, reasonableness and fair dealing - Whether conduct found to be in breach of an express requirement of good faith can be applied only to the particular part of the transaction to which it relates, or whether it permeates the entire  transaction.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25786               MAPLE CITY FORD SALES (1986) LTD. v. BANK OF MONTREAL (Ont.)

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

Commercial Law - Bankruptcy - Petitions and receiving orders - Demand to repay loan of approximately three million dollars - Reasonableness of three hours and thirteen minutes notice before receiver appointed - Trial judge granted petition and receiving order despite claim and counterclaim in separate action between the parties - Circumstances warranting petition to allow an investigation into debtor’s affairs - Reasonableness of liquidation of a business - Whether conduct gave rise to a claim in trespass and conversion - Whether bankruptcy proceedings were commenced to gain indirect control of litigation and whether this was a bona fide purpose of bankruptcy proceedings - Whether trial judge erred regarding the presence of a bona fide dispute between the parties, the absence of prejudice to other creditors or whether a stay would prevent the pursuit of a counterclaim.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25816               JERROLD D. PAXTON v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (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 - Small business corporation - Inter-generational rollover -  Was there a transfer of property to a child within the meaning of, now repealed, subsection 73(5) of the Income Tax Act - Did the Court of Appeal err in concluding that there was no transfer from the Applicant to his children.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

August 24, 1994

Tax Court of Canada (O’Connor, J.)

Applicant’s appeals from reassessment allowed

December 12, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Strayer, Robertson, JJ.A., McDonald, J.A.(dissenting))

Respondent’s appeal allowed

February 7, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25835               MOD-AIRE HOMES LTD. and PARADISE PARK DEVELOPMENTS LTD. v. GEORGE FERNICOLA, IN TRUST (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

Property law - Real property - Can a party maintain a Certificate of Pending Litigation, issued by the Court as part of the Administration of Justice, when there is no claim whatever to an interest in the land thus affected to support it?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25824               OKANAGAN PRIME PRODUCTS INC. d.b.a. KITCHEN FANTASY v. LYNDA ARLENE HENDERSON, AGNES TONHAUSER and WAYNE DAVID RAINS (B.C.)

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

Procedural law - Contracts - Leases - Principle of non-interference with trial judge’s findings of fact - Whether the Court of Appeal misconstrued the trial judge’s reasons for judgment - Assessment of the value of an option to purchase.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25825               EDMUND R. SAUNDERS and RETA W. SAUNDERS v. OCEANUS MARINE INC. (N.S.)

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

Property law - Mortgages - Procedure - Did lower courts err in granting order for foreclosure?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

May 11, 1995

Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (Carver J.)

Order for foreclosure issued

July 16, 1996

Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (Carver J.)

Order substituting the Respondent as plaintiff in foreclosure proceedings against Applicants and amending order for foreclosure

December 17, 1996

Nova Scotia Court of Appeal

(Roscoe, Pugsley and Batemant JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed in part

February 4, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25934               HEALTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE v. HEALTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE LOCAL OF THE NOVA SCOTIA NURSES’ UNION (N.S.)

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

Labour Law - Collective Agreement - Interpretation of a provision in a Letter of Agreement - Whether the arbitrator must apply the doctrine of causation when determining the reason for an employee’s loss of employment.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25802               ALI MOHAMMED SIAD v. THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF CANADA (B.C.)

CORAM:           L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and Iacobucci 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 - Procedural Law - Evidence - Duty of disclosure by the Crown before and during a Convention Refugee status hearing - Admissibility of a written report containing hearsay during a Convention Refugee status hearing.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

April 24, 1994

Federal Court, Trial Division (Strayer J.)

Application for judicial review allowed, rehearing ordered

December 3, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Isaac C.J., McDonald and Gray JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed, application for judicial review dismissed, rehearing order set aside

February 3, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25853               CARTER MOTOR CARS LIMITED v. CHARM MORRISON (B.C.)

CORAM:           L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and Iacobucci 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 - Motor vehicles - Statutes - Interpretation - Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1979, c.288 - Owner’s liability - Express consent - Whether express consent to acquiring automobile keys and custody of demonstrator plates constitutes possession within the meaning of s.79(1) of the Motor Vehicle Act, despite limits placed on the use of the automobiles.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

25868               JOHN PAWLUK, BANFF INVESTMENTS LTD., REGIONAL INVESTMENTS LTD. and QUINPAK DEVELOPMENTS LTD. v. BANK OF MONTREAL and FRED G. ALLEN (Alta.)

CORAM:           L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and Iacobucci 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 - Contracts - Banks/Banking Operations - Evidence - Parole evidence - Whether parol evidence should have been led to contradict a commitment letter - Whether a bank breached a commitment letter by failing to take care and diligence or to use reasonable banking practices - Whether a failure to advance funds caused a loss of contractors - Onus to prove a causal link between withdrawn financing and losses - Whether it was reasonably foreseeable that refinancing would be difficult - Whether there were intervening acts and reasonable attempts to mitigate - Foreseeability of an opportunity to convert to another loan in another currency.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

January 17, 1997

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(McClung, Irving and Conard JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

March 5, 1997

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

25927               DAVID MICHAEL SAVORY 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.