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May 12, 2000  850 - 896                                                                      le 12 mai 2000

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A.L.R.

Cory Phillips

Archer & Phillips Law Office

v. (27659)

Her Majesty the Queen (Man.)

Cynthia Devine

A.G. of Manitoba

FILING DATE 10.4.2000

MAY 1, 2000 / LE 1 MAI 2000

                                                CORAM:  Chief Justice McLachlin and Iacobucci and Major JJ.

Le juge en chef McLachlin et les juges Iacobucci et Major

Wilfred Harold Doyle

v. (27702)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(P.E.I.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Evidence - Procedural law - Standard of review - Whether the standard of review as set out in R.v.Yebes, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 168, and R. v. Burke, [1996] 1 S.C.R. 474 was misapplied - Were the requirements for curial review met in this case - Whether the conviction was unreasonable and unsafe.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

August 5, 1998

Provincial Court of Prince Edward Island (Orr J.)

Applicant convicted of two counts of uttering threats contrary to s.  264.1(1) (a) and (b) of the Criminal Code 

Nicholas Yvon Bonamy

v. (27631)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Procedural law - Uttering forged document - Theft - Court appointing solicitor and Attorney General providing transcripts - Allegation that rule as to provisions of  transcripts infringing s. 15  of Charter  found to be moot - Whether appellate court has a duty to exercise jurisdiction on a constitutional issue as to whether or not a Rule of that Court offends the Charter  - Whether appellate court must apply Proviso once an appellant has made a prima facie case that several errors have been committed by the trial judge - Whether misconduct of the police and the alleged misleading of the judicial authorities by the police placed the administration of justice into disrepute.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

December 2, 1999

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

Amina Chaudhary

v. (27672)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter  - Criminal - Criminal Law - Procedure - Motion to reduce period of parole ineligibility after 15 years of a life sentence - Criminal Code  in force at time of motion requires a unanimous jury vote to reduce parole ineligibility - Criminal Code  in force at time of offence, conviction and sentencing required only a two-thirds majority vote - Amendments to Criminal Code  requiring jury unanimity introduced between sentencing and motion - Motions judge orders that amended wording to apply - Whether decision to apply amended wording infringed s. 7  of the Charter  - Right to be punished in accordance with the law as it existed at the time of offence - Whether motions judge erred by directing his attention to the characterization of the amendments as procedural or substantive - Whether s. 745.6(1) of the Criminal Code , R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46  applied retroactively in breach of constitutional rights. 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Ronald H. Wilson and Nicholas Kyprianou

v. (27523)

Robert Anderson and Deborah Fischer (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Civil procedure - Class actions - Whether it is sufficient that the class proceeding resolves a single common issue, while leaving substantial individual issues, including causation and damages, to be determined in individual proceedings - Whether an aggregate award of damages is appropriate even where members of the class may have suffered no injuries - Whether the claim for nervous shock, absent proof of a recognizable psychiatric or psychological injury, discloses a cause of action -  Whether the subclass of uninfected patients is properly constituted.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM:   L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ. /

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel

Percy Edward Augustine

v. (27695)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Sentencing - Evidence - Aboriginal - Whether the verdict of manslaughter should be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or cannot be supported by the evidence - Whether the trial judge erred in giving improper or insufficient reasons for his verdict - Whether the trial judge misapprehend the evidence adduced at trial, so as to result in a miscarriage of justice - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in varying the sentence imposed by the trial judge.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Thomas Reardon

v. (27708)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Evidence - Sexual Assault - Whether the learned trial Judge erred in making assumptions as to the character and behaviour of the complainant without a factual basis for those findings - Whether the learned trial Judge erred in making assumptions as to the character and behaviour of the complainant in areas where the Applicant is precluded from calling evidence by the provisions of the Criminal Code  thus creating an unfairness to the Applicant amounting to a violation of his rights pursuant to Section 7  of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Whether the learned trial Judge erred in rejecting the evidence of the witness Brandiferri where there was nothing inherently objectionable with that evidence which called for its rejection - Whether the learned trial Judge erred in rejecting the Applicant’s statement given to a person in authority as being self-serving given the statement had been made with proper warning and having been ruled voluntary?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

E.T.H.

v. (27709)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Pleas - Withdrawal of guilty plea - In an application to withdraw a guilty plea prior to sentencing, is it sufficient to show a viable defence or must an accused also show that the guilty plea was entered involuntarily - What tests and standards of review are to be applied to applications to strike a guilty plea were sentence has not yet been imposed?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

A.‑L.T.

v. (27814)

W.B. (Que.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Family law - Access - Procedural law - Jurisdiction - Whether Respondent’s application for access should be heard by court in Québec where parties last cohabited or in British Columbia where children reside with Applicant

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

David Masmarti

c. (27712)

Me Bernard Cohen et Dr Claude Therrien

- et -

La Commission des affaires sociales et La Société d’assurance automobile du Québec (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - La Commission des affaires sociales (ci-après “la C.A.S.”) a-t-elle commis une erreur juridictionnelle en ne considérant pas les faits nouveaux survenus après l’audience en révision? - La C.A.S. a-t-elle commis une erreur manifestement déraisonnable en décidant d’écarter l’opinion présentée par le docteur  P. Cervantes sur la base que ce dernier ne peut valablement émettre une opinion sur un patient qu’il n’a pas examiné contemporainement au mois de mars 1989? - Dans l’affirmative, la C.A.S. aurait-elle dû considérer le demandeur inapte à retourner au travail et ainsi continuer le versement des indemnités de remplacement du revenu de ce dernier?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

CORAM:   Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ. /

Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

Douglas Leo Beamish

v. (27545)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(P.E.I.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Procedural law - Evidence - Charge to the jury - Whether the Appeal Division erred in invoking section 686(1)(b)(iii) of the Criminal Code  to cure the improper admission of similar fact evidence at the trial of the Applicant -  Whether the Appeal Division erred in concluding that the Applicant’s argument in relation to the procedural improprieties of the collection of cat DNA evidence, was an argument of only “weight” and therefore an issue only to be decided by the jury - Whether the Appeal Division erred in concluding that it was the role of the jury to assess the qualifications and validity of methods of expert witnesses, and that such should be considered in assessing the weight of the experts’ evidence - Whether the Appeal Division erred in concluding that the statements made, and opinions expressed, by the trial judge during the charge to the jury were proper and without influence on the jury.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

July 19, 1996

Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island

(Trial Division)

(Jenkins J.)

Applicant convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with 18 years of parole ineligibility

February 21, 2000

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

Hamza Abdulla Ali et 124558 Canada Inc.

c. (27458)

La Compagnie d'assurance Guardian du Canada et

La Compagnie d'assurance Royale du Canada (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit commercial - Assurances des biens - Dommages causés par un feu d’origine criminelle - Condamnation des propriétaires au criminel -  Indemnité d’assurance réclamée par les propriétaires - Effet d’une condamnation criminelle dans un procès civil - La preuve de la condamnation des Ali au criminel constitue-t-elle chose jugée, ou est-elle un “fait juridique” tel qu'il empêchait le juge de première instance de procéder à une analyse de la preuve de novo en tenant compte des faits nouveaux et des autres faits prouvés? - La Cour d'appel pouvait-elle procéder à une nouvelle analyse de la crédibilité des témoins du procès et des faits en l'absence d'erreur déterminante du juge de première instance et en s'inspirant du jugement rendu au criminel? - Le fardeau de la preuve de démontrer l'implication volontaire des Ali dans l'incendie criminel demeurait-il chez les assureurs, même en présence d'une condamnation par les tribunaux siégeant au criminel?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

La Procureure générale du Québec et le Ministre des transports

c. (27463)

Le Camp Watchichou inc. (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Expropriation - Évaluation - Les dommages accordés pour contrer le braconnage sont-ils des dommages qui résultent directement de l’expropriation au sens de l’art. 58 de la Loi sur l’expropriation, L.R.Q., ch. E-24? - Subsidiairement, la Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en substituant son opinion à celle de la Chambre de l’expropriation qui n’était pas manifestement déraisonnable dérogeant aux principes qui doivent guider les tribunaux d’appel dans le domaine de l’expropriation en accordant de son chef une indemnité additionnelle de 200 000$ à titre de dépréciation et de 11 152$ à titre de frais d’experts?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

MAY 8, 2000 / LE 8 MAI 2000        

CORAM:   Chief Justice McLachlin and Iacobucci and Major JJ. /

Le juge en chef McLachlin et les juges Iacobucci et Major

Conrad Mullings

v. (27710)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Evidence - Search and seizure - Wiretap authorizations - Cross-examination of affiants - Exclusion of evidence under s. 24(2)  of the Charter  - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the evidence sought to be excluded was not obtained in a manner that infringed the Applicant’s Charter  rights - Whether the Court of Appeal erred by refusing to order a new trial where the trial judge, on a Garofoli application challenging two wiretap authorizations, had gone directly to the question of bringing the administration of justice into disrepute without affording the Applicant the opportunity to cross-examine the persons whose affidavits had supported the authorizations - Whether the Court of Appeal erred by not overturning the trial judge's ruling that intercepts of private communications are not conscriptive evidence?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

April 16, 1998

Ontario Court of Justice (General division)

(Whealy J.)

Application for leave to cross-examine two R.C.M.P. affiants dismissed

Wayne Bacon and Gary Svenkeson et al

v. (27469)

Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation and The Government of Saskatchewan (Sask.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Constitutional law - Rule of law - Commercial law - Contracts - Damages - Legislation effecting unilateral changes to revenue insurance contracts between a Crown corporation and farmers - Legislation extinguishing rights of action for breach of contract - Whether the rule of law does not create a restriction on the legislature’s right to make laws, but is only a recognition that when any law is passed, it is applicable to all parties including governments - Whether the Courts have no right to interfere with the arbitrary use of legislative powers - Whether the rule of law allows a court to set aside legislation otherwise validly enacted - Whether the court should set aside The Farm Income Insurance Legislation Amendment Act 1992, S.S. 1992 c. 51 as being contrary to the rule of law.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Vena Nelson and Dwayne Benjamin by his Litigation Guardian, Vena Nelson

v. (27437)

Osman Lodin and Laffia Lodin (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Torts - Negligence - Damages - Motor vehicles - Applicant claiming that Respondent’s vehicle struck her from behind - Respondents in defence alleging that Applicant clipped Respondent’s vehicle while passing Respondent’s vehicle in the driving lane - Jury finding for Respondents - Whether jury verdict perverse - Whether jury misapprehending trial judge’s charge and its own obligations as finders of facts - Whether trial judge properly charged jury - Whether trial judge interfered with the jury’s ability to render a decision based upon the evidence before it - Whether there was evidence on which the jury could find the Respondent driver was not negligent - Whether trial judge charged the jury properly with respect to the assessment of damages.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

James Phillips and Beverley Phillips

v. (27566)

R.D. Realty Limited,

Angel Camp Investments Ltd., Richard Drebin,

Roughrider Investments Inc. and

Charles McGrath (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Real property - Mortgages - Power of sale - Real estate agents - Commissions - Applicants selling property under power of sale in mortgage - Respondent real estate agents failing to disclose their interest in purchasing company - Applicants bringing action for return of commission paid on sale of property - Action dismissed on motion for summary judgment on basis that Applicants’ mortgage debt had been paid in full - Whether real estate agent who withholds fact he is purchasing property for his own account can keep commission obtained from vendor - Whether contractual obligations of real estate agent to vendor are in any way abrogated, restricted or limited where vendor is a mortgagee selling under power of sale.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Marguerite Trussler

v. (27542)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Taxation - Assessment - RRSP Deduction - Whether income tax policy issues and substantive income tax matters can be delegated under the Act or whether they must be dealt with by Parliament directly - Whether the enactment of Regulation 8309(2) and the consequential reduction of RRSP contribution limits for Superior Court Justices constitutes a reduction in the salaries, allowances and pensions as contemplated by s. 100  of the Constitution Act, 1867 , and if so, whether such a reduction can be done by the Governor-In-Council or whether it must be done by Parliament as required by s. 100  of the Constitution Act, 1867  - Whether the Regulation is void for ambiguity - Whether the the historical ability to make a full RRSP deduction created a “legitimate expectation”.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM:   L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ. /

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel

Marcel Thiffault

c. (27544)

Caisse Populaire St‑Frédéric la Poudrière (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Code civil - Législation - Interprétation - Droit des biens - Droits réels - Droit d’usage - Acte de cautionnement prévoyant qu’en cas d’exercice par le créancier garanti d’un droit hypothécaire, l’immeuble grevé serait transmis libre de tous droits réels - Les bénéficiaires du droit d’usage viager, incessible et insaisissable peuvent-ils valablement céder, renoncer ou abandonner en faveur d’un tiers leur droit d’usage? - Le Code civil du Québec a-t-il eu pour effet de modifier le droit antérieur établi par l’arrêt Joseph Gagnon c. Odile Gagnon, [1899] C.B.R. 62? - Les bénéficiaires du droit d’usage sont-ils en droit de demander que la vente de l’immeuble grevé soit faite à charge du droit d’usage?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

André Lévesque

c. (27535)

La Commission des lésions professionnelles

- et -

Hydro-Québec et La Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit administratif - Révision judiciaire - Décision de la Commission des lésions professionnelles - Demande de révision d’une décision de la Commission de la santé et la sécurité du travail faite hors délai - Délai raisonnable - Loi sur les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles, L.R.Q., ch. A-3.001, art. 429.57.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Syndicat des travailleurs des Pavillons jeunesse

c. (27548)

Marc Boisvert, es qualité d'arbitre de griefs

- et -

Les Pavillons jeunesse (Joliette) maintenant appelé le Centre de réadaptation

des jeunes de Lanaudière (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail - Droit administratif - Arbitrage - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - Arbitre appelé à  interpréter des lois et règlements d’intérêt public afin de disposer d’un grief - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle commis une erreur quant à la norme de contrôle judiciaire applicable? - La norme de la simple erreur s’appliquait-elle? - La décision arbitrale est-elle de surcroît manifestement déraisonnable?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Frédéric St‑Jean

c. (27515)

Denis Mercier (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Responsabilité civile - Dommages-intérêts - Médecins et chirurgiens - Responsabilité professionnelle - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré dans son application des principes en matière de lien de causalité?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Raffieudeen Razac

v. (27552)

Harold C. Lehrer (Qué.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Civil procedure - Default judgment - Motion to set aside deemed abandoned - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in not applying the spirit of the law - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in deciding that the Applicant’s motion was abandoned - Whether the Roll Co-ordinator of the Court of Appeal should have asked the Applicant to submit the missing documents - Whether the documents submitted by the Applicant were sufficient for the Court of Appeal to render a decision - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing the Applicant’s motion - Whether the Superior Court erred in noting the Applicant in default - Whether the Superior Court erred in failing to inform the Applicant of the date, the time, and the place where the hearing was to have taken place.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM:   Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ. /

Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

Her Majesty the Queen

v. (27678)

Clarence Hoyles (Crim.)(Nfld.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Acquittal from conviction of sexual assault - Credibility - Findings at trial in favour of the credibility of the complainant - Whether Court of Appeal erred in using myths and stereotypes to evaluate a complainant’s evidence concerning a sexual assault alleged to have occurred when the complainant was approximately fourteen years old - Whether Court of Appeal is entitled to use solely the perspective of a middle-aged or older male individual in judging the degree of plausibility and improbability of evidence concerning the circumstances surrounding sexually aggressive behaviour allegedly committed against a fourteen years old - Deference to be shown by a court of appeal to express findings of the credibility of a complainant.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

May 6, 1998

Supreme Court of Newfoundland

Trial Division

(O’Regan J.)

Conviction of sexual assault, Sentence of 14 months to be served in the community with conditions

October 27, 1999

Supreme Court of Newfoundland

Court of Appeal

(Wells C.J., Mahoney and Marshall JJ.A.)

Respondent acquitted

December 24, 1999

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

Bayer Inc.

v. (27436)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Statutes - Interpretation - Food and Drug Regulations, C.R.C., c. 870, s.C.08.004.1 - Where a notice of compliance has been issued for a new drug on the basis of a new drug submission, and an abbreviated new drug submission is filed by a second manufacturer with respect to a drug said to be the pharmacological equivalent and bioequivalent of the first drug, does the Respondent Minister rely on the new drug submission in considering whether to grant a notice of compliance on the basis of the abbreviated new drug submission - Does Regulation C.08.004.1, properly interpreted in light of Article 1711 of NAFTA and Article 39.3 of the TRIPs Agreement, allow the Respondent Minister to issue a notice of compliance to the second manufacturer without giving effect to the five year prohibition provided in s. C.08.004.1 of the Regulations?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Andrée Groleau Roberge

et Claude Roberge

c. (27591)

Pierre Paradis, Jacques Paradis, André Paradis,

Micheline Paradis Mathieu, Louise Paradis Morency,

Thérèse Paradis Lachance et Albina Paradis Longpré (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Code civil - Législation - Interprétation - Droit des biens - Testaments - Testament olographe - Conditions de forme - Volonté du testateur - Lorsque le tribunal a acquis la certitude qu’un testament olographe contient les dernières volontés du défunt, doit-il refuser ses volontés lorsqu’une exigence de forme n’a pas été suivie?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Paul George Szasz and Robert Ernest Yeates

v. (27558)

Standard Trust Company in Liquidation by its

Liquidator Ernst & Young Inc., B.G. Schickedanz

Investments Limited and Timed Developments Inc. (Ont.)

AND BETWEEN:

B.G. Schickedanz Investments Limited and

Timed Developments Inc.

v. (27558)

Paul George Szasz and Robert Ernest Yeates (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Guaranty suretyship - Whether there has been a material alteration to a contract thereby discharging the surety - Whether the acceptance by the creditor of an additional principal debtor represents a change from the risk that the surety has agreed to assume and results in the discharge of the surety in the absence of the surety’s consent - Whether constructive consent can be implied from the surety’s acquiescence to the trustee in bankruptcy’s sale of the equity of redemption - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that Szasz and Yeates were only principal debtors at the request of and for the purposes of Standard and not with respect to PPL, Schickedanz, Timed or anyone else.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Marcel Paquet, représenté par la

liquidatrice de sa succession, madame Maude Roy

c. (27569)

Les Banquets Fine‑Gueule Inc. (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit commercial - Contrats ‑ Vente d’actions par le demandeur ‑ Engagement de non‑concurrence- Restaurant et Bar - Demandeur s’engageant à ne pas exploiter à titre de propriétaire, employé, actionnaire ou bailleur de fonds un commerce du même nature que celui de l’intimée ou s’en rapprochant pour une période de cinq (5) ans dans la Ville de Jonquière - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré en adjugeant ultra petita sur la question des deux (2) permis d’alcool? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en intervenant sur des questions de faits quant à la violation de la clause de non-concurrence? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré quant à la portée qu’elle a donnée à la clause de non-concurrence, eu égard à l’existence de deux (2) permis d’alcool de même catégorie?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

LE 11 MAI 2000 / LE 11 MAI 2000

27741                    VLADIMIR KATRIUK v. THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION  (FC)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci 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

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Civil - Immigration law - Citizenship - Allegation of misrepresentation as to wartime collaboration in application for visa - Documentation of immigration and citizenship applications destroyed in routine purging of inactive files - Did Federal Court (Trial Division) judge and Federal Court of Appeal erred in denying the Appellant his requested Stay in context of the following: (i) the Minister’s destruction and/or loss of documentation essential to the case; (ii) the Minister’s refusal to provide further necessary disclosure through a certificate issued under s. 39 of the Canada Evidence Act; (iii) the delay of the Minister in presenting her case in regard to limitations for fraud as operating in a civil action; (iv) the denial of the protections of s.7 and 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the Appellant; and (v) the Minister’s use of civil proceedings, by way of an administrative expeditious reference, to try to establish criminality - Did Federal Court (Trial Division) judge and the Federal Court of Appeal err in refusing to consider and find the denial of rights of appeal under s. 18(3) of the Citizenship Act a violation of the Appellant’s rights under s. 7 of and 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and if such rights were violated to consider whether the restriction was reasonably justifiable - Did the Federal Court (Trial Division)  misdirect himself, and the Federal Court of Appeal err, in dismissing loss of jurisdiction when no evidence was present to establish a finding of fraud as alleged by the Minster, thereby denying the Appellant natural justice.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27431                    INTERBORO MUTUAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY - v. - GUARDIAN INSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA AND PETER JOSEPH HEALY (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci 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 - Insurance - Automobile Insurance - No-fault benefits - Participation in reciprocal scheme in Canada for the enforcement of motor vehicle insurance obligations - Whether the Shea v. Shea, (1985), 21 D.L.R. (4th) 716 (B.C.C.A.) decision is correct or whether this Court of Appeal’s decision is correct - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the reference to “motor vehicle liability insurance contract” as set out in the 1964 Interboro PAU included a contract as defined in subsection 268(1) of the 1996 Insurance Act even though Interboro was not licensed in Ontario or had filed an undertaking under section 226.1 of the Insurance Act - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the 1964 Interboro PAU is triggered when no vehicle insured under the Interboro policy is present in Ontario.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27728                    MARK LESLIE AITKEN- v. - SANDRA ANN CHISHOLM AITKEN (B.C.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Family law - Division of assets - Separation agreement as bar - Parties reconciling after separation agreement signed - Whether claim against business assets owned by husband barred by provisions of separation agreement - Whether Court of Appeal erred in overturning trial judgment

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27706                    EMILE MENNES AND GIBRAL BECK- v. - THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA ON BEHALF OF THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA, THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS, THE WARDEN OF THE KINGSTON PENITENTIARY AND THE WARDEN OF THE WARKWORTH PENITENTIARY (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci 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

Canadian Charter  - Civil - Criminal Law - Prisons - Inmate of non-smoking, medium security unit transferred to smoking, medium security unit based on allegation that he had been observed smoking - Application for habeus corpus to challenge transfer dismissed - Application for declaration transfer violated freedom of association dismissed - Whether Charter rights denied - Interpretation of  Miller v. The Queen, [1985] 2 S.C.R. 613 - Jurisdiction of Federal Court of Canada -Grounds for habeas corpus application - Entitlements under Corrections and Conditional Release Act.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27505                    WEB OFFSET PUBLICATIONS LIMITED, JOHN J. PIZALE AND JOHN G. BACOPULOS- v. - HOWARD L. VICKERY (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci 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 - Motion to strike statement of claim - Applicants bringing action seeking damages against three lawyers for defamation, abuse of process and intentional interference with economic relations - Motions judge striking out Applicants’ statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action - Whether it is “plain and obvious” that the causes of action set out in the statement of claim contain such radical defects that they ought to have been struck out - Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194, rule 21.01(1).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27486                    ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY, SIMCOE & ERIE GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, ECCLESIASTICAL INSURANCE OFFICE LIMITED, INSURANCE CORPORATION OF NEWFOUNDLAND LIMITED AND GENERAL ACCIDENT INDEMNITY COMPANY - v. - PARKWAY ENTERPRISES LIMITED AND ROSS SWEENEY (Nfld.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Insurance - Defence of arson - Whether circumstantial evidence of motive and opportunity can be considered in determining whether a fire was of incendiary origin - Whether a finding of lack of credibility including a finding of untruthfulness against the owner of a business destroyed by fire be considered in determining whether the fire was of incendiary origin - Whether the decision of the Newfoundland Court of Appeal conflicts with the decision in R. v. Monteleone, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 154.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27619                    ASSOCIATION DES POLICIERS PROVINCIAUX DU QUÉBEC - c. - CLAUDE LAUZON  - et - SÛRETÉ DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit administratif - Droit du travail - Droit des professions - Législation - Interprétation - Contrôle judiciaire - Plainte disciplinaire - Droit au silence - Règlement sur la déontologie et la discipline des membres de la Sûreté du Québec, (Loi de police, L.R.Q., ch. P-13, art. 57.1; ci-après “le Règlement”) - L’interprétation donnée par la Cour d’appel du Québec à l’article 87 du Règlement est-elle erronée? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en concluant que la norme de contrôle applicable au présent litige était celle de l’erreur manifestement déraisonnable? - La décision de la Cour d’appel est-elle contraire à sa décision rendue dans l’affaire Bouchard c.  Comité de discipline de la Sureté du Québec (C.A. Montréal 500-09-002806-966, le 31 août 1998, jj. Deschamps, Nuss et Zerbisias)?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27579                    SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE  ‑ c. ‑  ROGER CRAIG DENTON (Crim.)(Qué.)

CORAM:               Le juge Gonthier

La requête de l’intimé demandant la comparution du déposant M^e Claude Chartrand pour fins de contre-interrogatoire sur affidavit est accueillie et l’intimé est autorisé à procéder à l’interrogatoire conformément à la règle 20(1) de cette Cour devant le registraire ou tout commissaire à l’assermentation désigné par celle-ci, avis à cet effet devant être signifié d’ici 15 jours.  La déposition sur contre-interrogatoire devra être déposée au Greffe dans le mois suivant la signification dudit avis. 

La décision sur la requête demandant la disqualification des deux avocats de la partie demanderesse pour cause d’inhabilité est reportée jusqu’après dépôt du contre-interrogatoire de M^e Claude Chartrand autorisé ce jour.

The respondent’s motion to cross-examine the affiant Mr. Claude Chartrand on his affidavit is granted and the respondent is authorized to so cross-examine pursuant to rule 20(1) of this Court before the Registrar or a commissioner for oaths that she may appoint, notice of such examination to be served within 15 days.  The transcript of the cross-examination shall be filed with the Court within one month of such service.

Disposition of the motion to disqualify the two counsel of the applicant is accordingly carried over until after deposit of the cross-examination of Mr. Claude Chartrand authorized on this day.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Indépendance judiciaire - Ingérence - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en retenant le critère de l’impression d’ingérence pour conclure que l’impression d’indépendance du juge du procès a été compromise considérant les principes énoncés dans l’arrêt Canada (Ministre de la citoyenneté et de l’immigration) c. Tobiass, [1997] 3 R.C.S. 391?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27579                    SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE  ‑ c. ‑  ROGER CRAIG DENTON (Crim.) (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée. 

La décision sur la requête pour nouvelle preuve est reportée jusqu’après dépôt du contre-interrogatoire de M^e Claude Chartrand autorisé ce jour. 

The application for leave to appeal is granted. 

Disposition of the motion for the production of new evidence is accordingly carried over until after deposit of the cross-examination of Mr. Claude Chartrand authorized on this day.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Indépendance judiciaire - Ingérence - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en retenant le critère de l’impression d’ingérence pour conclure que l’impression d’indépendance du juge du procès a été compromise considérant les principes énoncés dans l’arrêt Canada (Ministre de la citoyenneté et de l’immigration) c. Tobiass, [1997] 3 R.C.S. 391?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27581                    SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE  ‑ c. ‑  NEIL PETERS (Crim.) (Qué.)

CORAM:               Le juge Gonthier

La requête de l’intimé demandant la comparution du déposant M^e Claude Chartrand pour fins de contre-interrogatoire sur affidavit est accueillie et l’intimé est autorisé à procéder à l’interrogatoire conformément à la règle 20(1) de cette Cour devant le registraire ou tout commissaire à l’assermentation désigné par celle-ci, avis à cet effet devant être signifié d’ici 15 jours.  La déposition sur contre-interrogatoire devra être déposée au Greffe dans le mois suivant la signification dudit avis. 

La décision sur la requête demandant la disqualification des deux avocats de la partie demanderesse pour cause d’inhabilité est reportée jusqu’après dépôt du contre-interrogatoire de M^e Claude Chartrand autorisé ce jour.

The respondent’s motion to cross-examine the affiant Mr. Claude Chartrand on his affidavit is granted and the respondent is authorized to so cross-examine pursuant to rule 20(1) of this Court before the Registrar or a commissioner for oaths that she may appoint, notice of such examination to be served within 15 days.  The transcript of the cross-examination shall be filed with the Court within one month of such service.

Disposition of the motion to disqualify the two counsel of the applicant is accordingly carried over until after deposit of the cross-examination of Mr. Claude Chartrand authorized on this day.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Indépendance judiciaire - Ingérence - Contre-interrogatoire - Langue - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en retenant le critère de l’impression d’ingérence pour conclure que l’impression d’indépendance du juge du procès a été compromise considérant les principes énoncés dans l’arrêt Canada (Ministre de la citoyenneté et de l’immigration) c. Tobiass, [1997] 3 R.C.S. 391 - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en concluant que le fait de soumettre le témoin à l’expérience d’un contre-interrogatoire en langue anglaise était nécessaire pour permettre au juge des faits d’évaluer sa capacité de rapporter fidèlement les propos recueillis - Subsidiairement, la Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en n’appliquant pas les dispositions curatives de 686(1)b)(iii) du Code criminel , L.R.C., 1985, ch. C-46 ?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27581                    SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE  ‑ c. ‑  NEIL PETERS (Crim.) (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée. 

La décision sur la requête pour nouvelle preuve est reportée jusqu’après dépôt du contre-interrogatoire de M^e Claude Chartrand autorisé ce jour. 

La requête de l’intimé pour ordonnance de réaudition devant la Cour d’appel est déférée à la cour saisie de l’audition du pourvoi, l’intimé pouvant se prévaloir de la règle 29(3) de cette Cour.

The application for leave to appeal is granted. 

Disposition of the motion for the production of new evidence is accordingly carried over until after deposit of the cross-examination of Mr. Claude Chartrand authorized on this day.

The notice of petition to order a rehearing before the Court of Appeal is referred to the bench hearing the appeal, rule 29(3) being available to the respondent.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Indépendance judiciaire - Ingérence - Contre-interrogatoire - Langue - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en retenant le critère de l’impression d’ingérence pour conclure que l’impression d’indépendance du juge du procès a été compromise considérant les principes énoncés dans l’arrêt Canada (Ministre de la citoyenneté et de l’immigration) c. Tobiass, [1997] 3 R.C.S. 391 - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en concluant que le fait de soumettre le témoin à l’expérience d’un contre-interrogatoire en langue anglaise était nécessaire pour permettre au juge des faits d’évaluer sa capacité de rapporter fidèlement les propos recueillis - Subsidiairement, la Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en n’appliquant pas les dispositions curatives de 686(1)b)(iii) du Code criminel , L.R.C., 1985, ch. C-46 ?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27318                    HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA  - v. -  SELINE ALICE DAVIES, LINDA MAY MAILHOT and BRENDA LYNN MARSHALL, and CLIFFORD ANDREW HOUNSELL, ERIC EVERETT PEARSON, ERIC EVERETT PEARSON FOR THE ESTATE OF MARGARET PEARSON  - and between -  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - v. -  KEITH LEONARD BEADLE, PHILIP BEADLE and HENRY BEADLE, and FLORENCE PLEASANCE, REGINALD PLEASANCE, FREDA HART, VERNON HART, JANE DOE and JOHN DOE (B.C.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Limitation of actions - Negligence and breach of fiduciary duty - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in broadening the application of the common law discoverability rule to jurisdiction-conferring statutes - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in its interpretation of the meaning of the phrase “cause of action” - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in applying the common law discoverability rule to the Crown Proceeding Act, R.S.B.C., 1979, c. 236.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27411                    BRI-MEL DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED and SANDRA SWICK  ‑ v. ‑  CHARLES S. McLAREN and SHON JUNE McLAREN (Ont.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour 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 - Registration - Investigation of title - Restrictive covenants - Statutory Interpretation - Respondents filing Notice of Claim one month after expiry of 40 year notice period following registration of a deed - Whether Court of Appeal erred in interpreting s. 113(2)(b) of the Registry Act, R.S.O.1990, c. R.20 - Whether Court of Appeal decision conflicts with principles established in Fire v. Longtin, [1995] 4 S.C.R. 3.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27534                    YAW DWOMOH  ‑ v. ‑  THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Immigration law -Administrative law - Appeal - Jurisdiction - Application for sponsorship for immigration purposes of putative daughter denied - DNA testing excluding proposed sponsor as father of the person sought to be sponsored and therefore removing that person from the family class - Immigration and Refugee Board (Appeal Division) without jurisdiction to consider compassionate and humanitarian grounds for applicants not part of family class - Whether opportunity should have been given to make plea on humanitarian and compassionate grounds and to speak on the presented sworn affidavit of putative daughter’s mother testifying to the truth of Applicant’s paternity - Whether Board has jurisdiction to hear appeal.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27025                    AJMER SINGH GILL, also known as RANDY GILL, carrying on business under the firm name and style of RANDY’S BACKHOE SERVICE, also known as RANDY’S BACKHOE & TRUCKING  - v. ‑  GURCHARN GILL, and PIAR GILL, carrying on business under the firm name and style of G&P GILL FARM, and the said GURCHARN GILL and PIAR GILL (B.C.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ.

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

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Commercial law - Contracts - Interpretation of contract - Whether trial judge and court of appeal erred in interpretation of contract - Whether court of appeal erred in dismissing the Applicant’s appeal on the basis that Tonneguzzo Norvell et. al v. Savein et al. (1984) 110 D.L.R. (4th) 289, at p. 292, had no application on the facts and did not necessitate a second warning pursuant to s. 10 ( b )  of the Charter .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27375                    LEROY BUTCHER  ‑ v. ‑  THE GOVERNMENT OF SAINT LUCIA (Ont.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour 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

International law - State immunity - Employment contract between sovereign state and person offered position of consul to Canada - Consul designate’s services suspended - Whether the negotiations leading up to a contract between a Canadian citizen and a foreign state fall within the exception of “commercial activity” pursuant to s. 5  of the State   Immunity Act , R.S.C., 1985, c. S-18  - Whether Canadian courts have jurisdiction to inquire into the functions and duties of a Canadian citizen providing consular services for a foreign state as part of its determination of whether the s. 5 exemption for “commercial activity” is applicable - Whether Canadian courts have jurisdiction to hear a claim for damages for breach of contract or negligent misrepresentation brought by a Canadian citizen, contracted to provide consular services in Canada, against a foreign state pursuant to s. 6  of the State Immunity Act .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27412                    ROYAL SHIRT COMPANY LTD.  ‑ v. ‑  ONTARIO LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD (Ont.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour 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 - Labour relations - Certification - Procedural law - Actions -  Applicant claiming damages against Respondent Ontario Labour Relations Board for breach of a duty of care in failing to properly exercise its authority granted pursuant to Ontario Labour Relations Act - Applicant’s statement of claim struck out - Whether Board should enjoy special and absolute immunity from suit by persons appearing before it even when bias, bad faith, or mala fides with intent to injure as against such persons is demonstrated.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27352                    OERLIKON AÉROSPATIALE INC.  - c. ‑  SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (C.A.F.)

CORAM:               Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

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 fiscal - Législation - Interprétation - Évaluation - Taxe d’affaires - Réserves fiscales - Calcul de capital sous la partie 1.3 de la Loi de l’impôt sur le revenu - Est-ce que les principes comptables généralement reconnus doivent servir à déterminer non seulement la valeur mais également la nature des éléments énumérés au paragraphe 181.2(3) de la Loi? - Est-ce qu'une «réserve» spécifiquement exclue du calcul du capital d'une société en vertu de l'alinéa 181.2(3)b) de la Loi peut être incluse dans ce même calcul par le biais des autres alinéas du paragraphe 181.2(3) de la Loi et, plus particulièrement, par le biais de l'alinéa 181.2(3)c) de la Loi à titre d'«avances»? - Est-ce que les paiements constituent des «avances» au sens de l'alinéa 181.2(3)c) de la Loi?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27417                    DUCA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION LIMITED  ‑ v. ‑  ALLEN SUGARMAN, IN TRUST, PRESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT CORP., YONGE CRESCENT HOLDINGS LIMITED and MINICORP REALTY INC. (Ont.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour 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 - Property law - Personal Property - Creditor and debtor - Unjust enrichment - Personal Property Security Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P 10 - Whether someone can acquire a security interest in a licence to operate a nursing home - Whether a licence constitutes “property” - Interaction between the doctrine of unjust enrichment and personal property security legislation.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27400                    YVON FORTIN et ROSY LAMBERT  - c. ‑  FONDS D’ASSURANCE-RESPONSABILITÉ PROFESSIONNELLE DE LA CHAMBRE DES NOTAIRES DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

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 commercial - Assurance - Procédure civile - Désistement - Interprétation - Art. 2603 du Code civil du Bas-Canada - Art. 264 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q., c. C-25 - La Cour d'appel a-t-elle erré en refusant ou en négligeant de reconnaître les effets du désistement opposable à l'intimé - La Cour d'appel a-t-elle erré en concluant que les demandeurs avaient renoncé définitivement et irréversiblement à leur droit de poursuivre l'assureur en intentant initialement une action contre l'assuré, action de laquelle ils se sont désistés longtemps avant le procès?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27684                    JAMES MATTHEW CARRIE  ‑ v. ‑  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (B.C.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ.

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

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law -  Evidence - Right to fair trial - Sexual assault -  Use of a firearm during commission of indictable offence - Corroboration - Whether Court of Appeal erred in its assessment of corroborative evidence and in accepting trial judge’s finding as to credibility and use of weapons - Whether Court of Appeal erred by failing to recognize that the accused did not hear the proceedings of the trial because of his hearing impairment and as a result was not able to advise his counsel on the proceedings of the trial.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27664                    EMMANUEL FEUERWERKER  - c. ‑  SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Ont.)

CORAM:               Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Droit criminel - Fraude - Procédure - Détermination de la peine - Opinion médicale sur la capacité mentale du demandeur - Plaidoyer de culpabilité - Capacité d’acquiescer ou de refuser de plaider coupable.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27428                    CONRAD P. GODBOUT et YVETTE PILIÉ  - c. ‑  LA MUNICIPALITÉ DE LA PAROISSE DE SAINT-PIE (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée.  La demande pour présentation de nouvelle preuve et la demande d’autorisation d’appel sont rejetées.

The application for extension of time is granted.  The application for production of new evidence and the application for leave to appeal are dismissed.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit Municipal - Environnement - Nuisances - Procédure civile - Requête pour permission d’appel hors délai - Le règlement sur les nuisances de l’intimée est-elle ultra vires - Les droits des demandeurs garantis par la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, L.R.Q., ch. C-12, ont-ils été violés - Le juge de première instance avait-elle l’obligation d’aviser les demandeurs de la nécessité d’un avis sous l’art. 95 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q., ch. C-25 - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en rejetant la requête des demandeurs pour permission d’appeler hors délai en vertu de l’art. 505 du Code de procédure civile - L’intimée a-t-elle violé la Loi sur la protection des arbres, L.R.Q., ch. P-37?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27514                    MARCIA ROBERTSON  ‑ v. ‑  THE ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION and MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC.  (Ont.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur de Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Extension of time to apply for leave to appeal - Whether the Court of Appeal correctly denied the extension of time.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27462                    CRESTWOOD LAKE LIMITED, PERCY ST. PIERRE and MARGARET ST. PIERRE   ‑ v. ‑  ROBERT PIZZEY, MARC E. LEFEBVRE and ROBERT OWEN PIZZEY, Executors of the Estate of MABEL PIZZEY, deceased, GLENN PIZZEY and CAMERON PIZZEY (Ont.)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour 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 - Breach of contract - Damages - Purchaser of trailer park obtaining fewer potential sites than he believed he was purchasing - Vendor ordered to pay purchaser damages for breach of contract - Court ordering that damages to which purchaser was entitled might be set off against balance overdue under mortgage back - Correct procedure for calculating amounts owing under mortgage back - Whether Court of Appeal should have corrected arithmetic error alleged by purchaser.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY