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CONTENTS                                                                                                               TABLE DES MATIÈRES

 

 

Applications for leave to appeal

filed

 

Applications for leave submitted

to Court since last issue

 

Oral hearing ordered

 

Oral hearing on applications for

leave

 

Judgments on applications for

leave

 

Motions

 

Notices of appeal filed since last

issue

 

Notices of intervention filed since

last issue

 

Notices of discontinuance filed since

last issue

 

Appeals heard since last issue and disposition

 

Pronouncements of appeals reserved

 

 

Headnotes of recent judgments

 

Weekly agenda

 

Summaries of the cases

 

Cumulative Index ‑ Leave

 

Cumulative Index ‑ Appeals

 

Appeals inscribed ‑ Session

beginning

 

Notices to the Profession and

Press Release

 

 

 

Deadlines: Appeals

 

Judgments reported in S.C.R.

1410 - 1416

 

 

1417 - 1444

 

 

-

 

-

 

 

1445 - 1486

 

 

1487 - 1500

 

1501

 

 

1502

 

 

1503

 

 

-

 

 

1504

 

 

1505 - 1514

 

1515

 

1516 - 1531

 

-

 

-

 

1532 - 1536

 

 

-

 

 

1537

 

1538

 

1539

         Demandes d'autorisation d'appel

         déposées

 

         Demandes soumises à la Cour depuis la          dernière parution

 

         Audience ordonnée

 

         Audience sur les demandes d'autorisation

 

        

         Jugements rendus sur les demandes                         d'autorisation

 

         Requêtes

 

         Avis d'appel déposés depuis la dernière          parution

 

         Avis d'intervention déposés depuis la                      dernière parution

 

         Avis de désistement déposés depuis la          dernière parution

 

         Appels entendus depuis la dernière

         parution et résultat

 

         Jugements rendus sur les appels en

         délibéré

        

         Sommaires des arrêts récents

 

         Ordre du jour de la semaine

 

         Résumés des affaires

 

         Index cumulatif ‑ Autorisations

 

         Index cumulatif ‑ Appels

 

         Appels inscrits ‑ Session

         commençant le

 

         Avis aux avocats et communiqué

         de presse

        

         Délais: Requêtes devant la Cour

 

         Délais: Appels

 

         Jugements publiés au R.C.S.


APPLICATIONS FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL FILED

DEMANDES D'AUTORISATION D'APPEL DÉPOSÉES

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  


Neville Barrington

                Neville Barrington

 

                c. (25368)

 

Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail et al. (Qué.)

                Pierre Arquin

                Panneton, Lessard

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 29.8.1996

 

 

Reddy Rajagopal Chavali et al.

                Reddy Rajagopal Chavali

 

                v. (25421)

 

Arthur Ault et al. (Ont.)

                Crouchman and Nelson

               

FILING DATE 30.8.1996

 

 

Gaston Duquette

                Martin Gauthier

                Delorme, Bessette

 

                v. (25454)

 

La Compagnie d’assurance Missisquoi (Qué.)

                Étienne Panet-Raymond

                Boudrias, Panet-Raymond

 

FILING DATE 28.8.1996

 

 

Karlheinz Haas

                Karlheinz Haas

 

                v. (25455)

 

Jean Grinyer (Ont.)

                David Tugender

 

FILING DATE 23.08.1996

 

 

Entreprises E.A. Bourque (Québec) Inc.

                Yvon Duplessis

                Letellier et Assoc.

 

                c. (25456)

 

Corporation municipale de la ville de Hull (Qué.)

                Pierre Dallaire

                Beaudry, Bertrand

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 30.8.1996

 

 

Les maisons Arrowood Ltée / Arrowood Homes Ltd.

                Simon Noël, c.r.

                Noël, Berthiaume

 

                c. (25457)

 

La corporation municipale de la ville de Hull et al. (Qué.)

                Pierre Dallaire

                Beaudry, Bertrand

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 30.8.1996

 

 

Barry Bitango

                B. Gregor Carleton

                Ives & Carleton

 

                v. (25458)

 

Donna M. Murray et al. (Alta.)

                Kenneth H. Lewis

                Virtue & Co.

 

FILING DATE 3.9.1996

 


Brian Jeffries

                Clayton C. Ruby

                Ruby & Edwardh

 

                v. (25460)

 

Her Majesty The Queen (B.C.)

                S. David Frankel, Q.C.

                Dept. of Justice

 

FILING DATE 3.9.1996

 

 

Karlheinz Haas et al.

                Karlheinz Haas

               

                v. (25461)

 

Jill S. Baerlrt et al. (Ont.)

                Sandy McIntyre

                Mollison, McCormick, McIntyre, McGee

 

FILING DATE 3.9.1996

 

 

Gaetan John Paul Joseph Masse et al.

                Mary Eberts

                Eberts Symes Street & Corbett

 

                v. (25462)

 

The Lieutenant Governor in Council et al. (Ont.)

                Janet E. Minor

                A.G. of Ontario

 

FILING DATE 4.9.1996

 

 

Gilles Patenaude

                Gilles Patenaude

 

                c. (25463)

 

Ville de Longueuil et al. (Qué.)

                Karyne Goulet

                Roy, Perron & Assoc.

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 5.9.1996

 

 

Philippe Chasse

                Philippe Chasse

               

                c. (25464)

 

Sa Majesté La Reine et al. (Qué.)

                Subs. du procureur général du Québec

               

DATE DE PRODUCTION 5.9.1996

 

 

Rose Venneri

                Sean McGee

                Nelligan Power

 

                v. (25465)

 

The Lincoln County Board of Education (Ont.)

                Brian P. Smeenk

                McCarthy Tetrault

 

FILING DATE 6.9.1996

 

 

Le Groupe Desjardins Assurances générales

                Michel C. Chabot

                Aubut Chabot

 

                c. (25466)

 

La Société canadienne des postes et al. (Qué.)

                Jacques Jeansonne

                McCarthy, Tétrault

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 5.9.1996

 

 

Jean-Marc Lainesse

                Michel Lambert

 

                c. (25467)

 

Le Comité de discipline de l’association des courtiers d’assurances de la province de Québec et al. (Qué.)

                Caroline Daoust

                Leduc, Leblanc

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 6.9.1996

 


Marcel Rivard

                Louis Masson

Joli-Coeur, Lacasse, Lemieux, Simard, St-Pierre

 

                c. (25468)

 

Le Comité de discipline de l’association des courtiers d’assurances de la province de Québec et al. (Qué.)

                Caroline Daoust

                Leduc, Leblanc

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 6.9.1996

 

 

Robert Millette

                Louis Masson

Joli-Coeur, Lacasse, Lemieux, Simard, St-Pierre

 

                c. (25469)

 

Le Comité de discipline de l’association des courtiers d’assurances de la province de Québec et al. (Qué.)

                Caroline Daoust

                Leduc, Leblanc

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 6.9.1996

 

 

Ville de Québec

                Sonia Gagnon

                Boutin, Roy & Assoc.

 

                c. (25470)

 

Hospitalité Commonwealth Ltée (Qué.)

                Guy Leblanc

                Martineau, Walker

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 6.9.1996

 

 

Jane Ann Ledwon

                Jane Ann Ledwon

               

                v. (25471)

 

Homelife Peter Sukkau Realty Inc. et al.  (Ont.)

                Richard H. Barch, Q.C.

                Cdy Barch

 

FILING DATE 6.9.1996

 

 

Claude Tremblay

                Josée Ferrari

                Pariseau, Olivier

 

                c. (25391)

 

Sa Majesté La Reine (Qué.)

                Lucie Gingras

                Subs. procureur général

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 12.9.1996

 

 

Donald Rhéaume

                Serge Barma

Gingras, Vallerand, Barma, Laroche, Amyot

 

                c. (25422)

 

Gestion Bo-Ra Ltée et al. (Qué.)

                François Marcoux

                Cantin, Larouche

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 12.9.1996

 


Trendline Industries Ltd.

                Gordon G. Hilliker

                Hilliker Grady

 

                v. (25474)

 

Anthony Dale Mochinski et al. (B.C.)

                David O. Marley

                Hean Wylie Peach de Stefanis

 

FILING DATE 11.9.1996

 

 

Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd.

                Glenn Hainey

                Smith Lyons

 

                v. (25475)

 

Forest Protection Ltd. (N.B.)

                Levi E. Clain

                Stewart, McKelvey, Stirling, Scales

 

FILING DATE 11.9.1996

 

 

Verna MacKey

                John R. Beckman, Q.C.

                McKercher McKercher & Whitmore

 

                v. (25476)

 

Naomi Smith (Sask.)

                K.A. Lerner

               

 

FILING DATE 13.9.1996

 

 

Eli Lilly and Co. et al.

                Anthony G. Creber

                Gowling, Strathy & Henderson

 

                v. (25477)

 

Apotex Inc. et al. (F.C.A.)

                Goodman, Phillips & Vineberg

               

 

FILING DATE 13.9.1996

 

 

The United States of America et al.

                James L. Brunton

                A.G. of Canada

 

                c. (25478)

 

Salvatore Cazzetta (Qué.)

                Francis Brabant

                Girouard and Assoc.

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 12.9.1996

 

 

Chemagro Ltd. et al.

                John M. Hanson

                Hanson, Hashey

 

                v. (25479)

 

Forest Protection Ltd. (N.B.)

                Levi E. Clain

                Stewart, McKelvey, Stirling, Scales

 

FILING DATE 16.9.1996

 


Edward J. Kasha et al.

                John H. Currie

                Lang Michener

 

                v. (25480)

 

Scurry-Rainbow Oil Ltd. et al. (Alta.)

                R.A. McLennan, Q.C.

                McLennan, Ross

 

FILING DATE 16.9.1996

 

 

Clive Everald Campbell

                Michael Lomer

                Lomer, Frost

 

                v. (25390)

 

Minister of Justice (Ont.)

                David Littlefield

                Dept. of Justice

 

FILING DATE 18.9.1996

 

 

Salvatore Lombardo

                Pierre Poupart

                Poupart et Cournoyer

 

                c. (25405)

 

Le ministre de la Justice du Canada et al. (Qué.)

                James L. Brunton

               

 

DATE DE PRODUCTION 19.9.1996

 

 

Hudson & Co. Insolvency Trustees Inc.

                John T. McCarthy

                Miles Davison McCarthy

 

                v. (25481)

 

Arthur Christensen et al. (Alta.)

                William Herman

                Ross, Todd & Co.

 

FILING DATE 18.9.1996

 

 

Her Majesty The Queen in Right of the province of Ontario

                Peter K. Foulds

                Miller Thomson

 

                v. (25482)

 

Victoria Matthews (Ont.)

                Hugh Pattison

                Kacaba & Assoc.

 

FILING DATE 19.9.1996

 

 

Meeker Log and Timber Ltd. et al.

                David F. McEwen

                McEwen, Schmitt & Co.

 

                v. (25483)

 

The Owners and all others interested in the Ship “Sea Imp VIII” et al. (B.C.)

                S. Harry Lipetz

                Connell, Lightbody

 

FILING DATE 19.9.1996

 


Hans H. Schilling et al.

                Allen L. Cole

                Walker & Co.

 

                v. (25484)

 

Certified General Accountants Association of B.C. (B.C.)

                Richard R. Sugden, Q.C.

                Sugden, McFee & Roos

 

FILING DATE 19.9.1996

 

 

Halifax Regional Municipality, a body corporate

                Peter D. Darling

                Huestis Holm

 

                v. (25485)

 

Barclays Bank of Canada et al. (N.S.)

                Roy F. Redgrave

                Flinn Merrick

 

FILING DATE 19.9.1996

 

 

Montreal Trust Co. of Canada

                Earl A. Cherniak, Q.C.

                Lerner & Assoc.

 

                v. (25486)

 

Irvin J. Froese (B.C.)

                Irving G. Nathanson, Q.C.

                Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson

 

FILING DATE 19.9.1996

 

 

Bruce Taro Yoneda

                Georgialee A. Lang

                Georgialee Lang & Assoc.

 

                v. (25488)

 

Deborah Darlene Yoneda (B.C.)

                William Murphy-Dyson

                Cox, Taylor

 

FILING DATE 20.9.1996

 

 

587855 Ontario Ltd. et al.

                Ramesh Mishra

 

                v. (25489)

 

Industrial-Alliance Life Insurance Co. et al. (Ont.)

                Rodrigue Landriault

                Seguin, Landriault & Lamoureux

 

FILING DATE 20.9.1996

 

 

Heather Menzies Woodhouse

                James G. McLeod

                Alfred A. Mamo & Assoc.

 

                v. (25490)

 

Martin James Woodhouse (Ont.)

                Harold Niman

                Abraham Duggan

 

FILING DATE 23.9.1996

 


Abtar Singh Bains

                John Campbell

                John Campbell Law Corp.

 

                v. (25491)

 

Ragbier Singh Bhandar et al. (B.C.)

                William R. Southward

Johns, Southward, Glazier, Walton & Margetts

 

FILING DATE 23.9.1996

 

 

Gerald Muirhead

                Michael D. Tochor

                Merchant Law Group

 

                v. (25492)

 

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

                Ms. C. Snell, Q.C.

                Dept. of Justice

 

FILING DATE 24.9.1996

 

 

Robert J. Dowling

                Eric K. Slone

                Slone & Munro

 

                v. (25493)

 

City of Halifax (N.S.)

                Mary Ellen Donovan

                Halifax Regional Municipality

 

FILING DATE 23.9.1996

 

 

Pacific Cassiar Ltd.

                Stanley Carscallen, Q.C.

                Carscallen Lockwood Cormie

 

                v. (25494)

 

Energy Resources Conservation Board et al. (Alta.)

                Gerald C. Scott, Q.C.

                Milner Fenerty

 

FILING DATE 23.9.1996

 

 

Klaus Streichert et al.

                Blair F. Suffredine

                Suffredine Burch

 

                v. (25495)

 

Paul Joseph Lautard et al. (B.C.)

                Mark McEwan

                McEwan, Harrison

 

FILING DATE 23.9.1996

 

 

Parker’s Country Market Inc., a body corporate

                Douglas A. Caldwell, Q.C.

                Patterson, Palmer, Hunt, Murphy

 

                v. (25497)

 

Her Majesty The Queen, in Right of the Province of Nova Scotia, represented by the Attorney General of Nova Scotia (N.S.)

                Margaret L. MacInnis

                Dept. of Justice

 

FILING DATE 23.9.1996

 

 



APPLICATIONS FOR LEAVE 

SUBMITTED TO COURT SINCE LAST ISSUE

 

DEMANDES SOUMISES À LA COUR DEPUIS LA DERNIÈRE PARUTION

 

AUGUST 23, 1996 / LE 23 AOÛT 1996

 

                                                 CORAM:  Chief Justice Lamer and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                                                                 Hudson & Company Insolvency Trustee Inc.,

                                                          Trustee of the Estate of Edward William Christensen

 

                                                                                                v. (25400)

 

                                                           Edward William Christensen, in bankruptcy (Alta.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Commercial Law - Bankruptcy - Statutes - Interpretation - Bankrupt holds an interest in that portion of an annuity which will arise after a designation of his spouse as beneficiary for part of the term expires - Whether section 265 of the Insurance Act,  R.S.A. 1980, c. I‑5 prevents trustee-in-bankruptcy from seizing bankrupt’s interest in the annuity.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

July 21, 1994

Court of Queen’s of Alberta  (O’Byrne J.)

Application allowed

 

May 13, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Harradence, Kerans and McFadyen JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

June 24, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

                                                                Noreen Ayer and Barbara Rufina McCullough

 

- and -

 

Daniel P. McCullough

 

                                                                                                v. (25363)

 

                                              Suzanne Shannon and Ernest John McCullough, Executors named

                                                            in the Will of the Deceased, Dorothea McCullough

 

                                                                                                    - and -

 

                                                        Daniel Howard Shannon and Stephen Michael Shannon

 

                                                                                                    - and -

 

                                        Suzanne Shannon, Bernard Smyth, Jr., Dorothea Smyth, Michael Smyth,

                                        John Smyth, Ernest John McCullough and Daniel P. McCullough (Alta.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Procedural law - Trial - Property law - Wills - Trial by judge and jury - Reasonable apprehension of bias - Whether the Applicants have a right to a trial by judge and jury on a testamentary matter - Whether the fact that one witness is a judge creates a risk of bias or partiality in the event of a trial by judge.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


February 13, 1996

Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta

(Wachowich A.C.J.C.Q.B.)


Application for trial by judge and jury dismissed


 


April 12, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Lieberman, Russell and Picard JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


June 6, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

The Saskatchewan Medical Postgraduate Committee, representing and acting on behalf of

The College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, The Saskatoon District Health

Board Corporation, The Regina District Health Board Corporation

and other associated Saskatchewan District Health Board Corporations

 

                                                                                                v. (25343)

 

                                  The Professional Association of Interns and Residents of Saskatchewan (Sask.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative law - Labour law - Arbitral award interpreting collective agreement - Is the role of the Court of Appeal to retry the issue heard and determined by the Arbitrator, or to ask itself the question: did the learned Chambers Judge properly exercise his discretion in hearing and disposing of  the application before him? - Did Court of Appeal properly perform its appellate function by (a) interpreting the operative words in a collective agreement according to its own conclusions or meaning, which words included “satisfactorily settled”?; (b) interpreting the collective agreement so as to determine which party or parties is entitled to make use of the arbitration provisions of the agreement when this was the function of the learned Arbitrator, and considering and determining the issue based on the respective submissions and positions of the parties?; Did the Court of Appeal err in imposing a rigid collective bargaining labour model on an academic program and its students?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


June 29, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan

(Barclay J.)


Application for judicial review of arbitration award dismissed


 


April 2, 1996

Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan

(Tallis, Cameron and Jackson JJ.A.)


Appeal allowed


 


May 23, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

CORAM: La Forest, Cory and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Cory et Major

 

                                                                             Kathleen Susan Murphy Kinch

 

                                                                                                v. (25345)

 

                                                                        Tignish Credit Union Limited (P.E.I.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Commercial law - Property law - Contracts - Mortgages - Fiduciary duty - Undue influence - Independent legal advice - Whether a fiduciary relationship existed between a credit union and the spouse of a mortgagor imposing a duty upon the credit union to ensure that the spouse received independent legal advice.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


June 3, 1993

Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island (McQuaid J.)


Respondent’s application for summary judgment denied


 


January 23, 1995

Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island (Campbell J.)


Respondent’s claims dismissed


 


March 29, 1996

Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island - Appeal Division (Carruthers, Mitchell and McQuaid JJ.A.)


Appeal allowed


 


May 28, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

                                                                      Tarvinder Dhir and Hardial Singh Dhir

 

                                                                                                v. (25301)

 

                                                           CIBC Mortgage Corporation and Canadian Imperial

                                                                                  Bank of Commerce (Ont.)

 

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Procedural law - Civil procedure - Judgments and orders - Summary judgment - Genuine issue for trial - Whether allegation of fraud and conspiracy constitutes genuine issue for trial.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

October 19, 1995

Ontario Court (General Division) (Somers J.)

Motion for summary judgment granted

 

March 1, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Osborne, Doherty and Moldaver JJ.A)

Appeal dismissed

 

April 30, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

                                                                                 Dancorp Developments Ltd.

 

                                                                                                v. (25355)

 

                                           Metropolitan Trust Company of Canada and Dunwoody Limited (B.C.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Commercial law - Creditor and debtor - Interest - Criminal rate of interest - Whether criminal rate of interest under Criminal Code  s. 347(1) (b) is to be calculated by reference to the date the loan was repaid in full or by reference to the contractual term of the loan  - Whether the Respondent gave the Applicant reasonable notice prior to appointing a receiver.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

September 16, 1994

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Preston J.)

Applicant’s application for summary judgment dismissed

 

March 22, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Lamberts, Gibbs and Newbury JJ.A)

Appeal dismissed

 

June 3, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal and for extension of time filed

 

 

 

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et McLachlin

 

                                                                                            Michel Guérin

 

                                                                                                c. (25412)

 

                                                                          Ministre de la Justice du Canada et

                                                                           Les États-Unis d’Amérique (Qué.)

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit constitutionnel - Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Extradition - Justice fondamentale - Remise d’un fugitif à un État étranger ne portant pas atteinte à ses droits garantis par la Charte  - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré en droit en rejetant la demande de contrôle judiciaire de la décision du ministre de la Justice ordonnant l’extradition, bien qu’il ne soit pas un “tribunal compétent” pour trancher les arguments du demandeur fondés sur la Charte  et bien qu’il ait erré en droit dans son interprétation de l’article 17 du Traité d’extradition?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 11 octobre 1994

Cour supérieure du Québec (Boilard J.C.S.)

Délivrance d’un mandat de dépôt portant incarcération du demandeur

 

Le 5 mars 1995

Ministre de la Justice

Délivrance d’un mandat d’extradition

       

Le 30 mai 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Beauregard, Fish et Chamberland JJ.C.A.)

Demande de révision judiciaire rejetée

 

Le 2 juillet 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

                                                                                           André Rondeau

 

                                                                                                c. (25339)

 

                                                                 Commission des affaires sociales du Québec

 

                                                                                                        et

 

                                                      Commission de la sécurité et de la santé du travail (Qué.)

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - Droit du travail - Accidents du travail - Indemnisation - Preuve d’expert - Lien de causalité entre les soins que le demandeur reçoit depuis le 29 novembre 1982 et l’accident de travail du 20 juin 1973 ainsi que les micro-traumatismes occasionnés par son travail au cours des ans et qui ont aggravé son état - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur en concluant que la décision de la Commission des affaires sociales n’était pas manifestement déraisonnable?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 1er avril 1993

Commission des affaires sociales

(Cloutier, membre, et Brunet, médecin assesseur)

Appel du demandeur contre une décision de la C.S.S.T. rejetée

 Le 29 septembre 1993

Cour supérieure du Québec (Croteau J.C.S.)

Requête en évocation rejetée

 

Le 13 février 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Beauregard, Otis et Robert JJ.C.A.)

Appel rejeté

 

Le 24 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel et de prorogation déposée

 

 

 

                                                                                             Mary Kapelus

 

                                                                                                v. (25360)

 

                                                                                        Robert Evans (B.C.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Procedural law - Evidence - Motor vehicles - Appeals - Bias - Collision at uncontrolled intersection - Did trial judge err in consideration of expert evidence? - Did lower courts err in disposition of case? - Whether actual bias on part of judge of the Court of Appeal.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

September 20, 1994

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Meredith J.)

Applicant’s claim for damages dismissed

 

April 1, 1996

Court of Appeal of British Columbia

(Hinkson, Goldie and Williams JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

May 31, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

                                                                         Brian J. Lawrie and Pointts Limited

 

                                                                                                v. (25333)

 

                                                      The Law Society of Upper Canada and Peter B. Bell (Ont.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Procedural law - Civil Procedure - Rule 20 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure - Motion for summary judgment - No genuine issue for trial - Torts - Malicious prosecution - Did the motions judge err in granting the Respondents’ motion for summary judgment - Did the motions judge err in applying Nelles vs. The Queen in Right of Ontario et al. (1989), 60 D.L.R. (4th) 609 (S.C.C.)

 

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


November 18, 1992

Ontario Court (General Division) (Roberts J.)


Respondents’ motion for summary judgment granted; Applicants’ action for malicious prosecution  dismissed


 


March 25, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Osborne, Abella and Moldaver JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


May 24, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

AUGUST 30, 1996 / LE 30 AOÛT 1996

 

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                                                                                        Tioxide Canada Inc.

 

                                                                                                c. (25325)

 

                                                                    Sa Majesté la Reine (Crim.)(C.A.F.)(Qué.)

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit fiscal - Législation - Interprétation - Crédits d’impôt pour la recherche scientifique et le développement expérimental - Le montant que la demanderesse est réputée avoir payé au ministre du Revenu du Québec en vertu de l’article 1029.7 de la Loi sur les impôts, L.R.Q. c. I-3, doit-il être inclus dans le calcul de son revenue en vertu de l’alinéa 12(1)x) de la Loi de l’impôt sur le revenu, S.C. 1970-71-72, c. 63? - Le montant que la demanderesse est réputée avoir payé au ministre du Revenu du Québec en vertu de l’article 1029.7 de la Loi sur les impôts est-il visé par l’alinéa 127(11.1)c) de la Loi?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 27 juillet 1993

Cour canadienne de l’impôt (Garon j.c.c.i.)

Cotisations du Ministre du Revenu national  déclarées bien fondées.

 

Le 20 mars 1996

Cour d’appel fédérale

(Pratte, Hugessen et Décary jj.c.a.)

Appel rejeté

 

Le 17 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

                                                                                              Joseph Reed

 

                                                                                                v. (25420)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Freedom of religion - Probation - Whether probation order prohibiting Applicant from parading placards in front of places of worship  violates his freedom of religion.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

March 3, 1994

Provincial Court of British Columbia (Rounthwaite J.)

Conviction : Four counts of violation of a probation order

 

May 26, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Leggatt J.)

Summary conviction appeal dismissed

 

May 9, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Hinkson J.A., in Chambers)

Application for leave to appeal dismissed

 

July 2, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

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

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

 

                                                                                    Maison L’Intégrale Inc.

 

                                                                                                c. (25334)

 

                                                       Le Tribunal du travail, M. le juge Claude Saint-Arnaud,

                                                      Le commissaire général du travail, M. Michel Marchand,

                                                   Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, section locale 313

 

                                                                                                     - et -

 

                                                                                Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies

 

ENTRE:

 

                                                                                Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies

 

                                                                                                        c.

 

                                                       Le Tribunal du travail, M. le juge Claude Saint-Arnaud,

                                                      Le commissaire général du travail, M. Michel Marchand,

                                                   Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, section locale 313

 

                                                                                                     - et -

 

                                                                              Maison L’Intégrale Inc. (Qué.)

 

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit du travail - Accréditation - Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence -  Transmission des droits et obligations aux termes de l’art. 45 du Code du travail, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. C-27 - Norme de contrôle applicable à la décision du commissaire du travail - Critères servant à déterminer une concession d’entreprise - Services de santé et services sociaux - Bénéficiaires de l’Hôpital transférés à L’Intégrale dans un processus de désinstitutionnalisation - Contrat de services précisant les obligations des parties, les programmes et services visés et le per diem versé par l’Hôpital pour chaque bénéficiaire hébergé par L’Intégrale - Commissaire du travail concluant à une concession partielle d’entreprise - Décision confirmée par le Tribunal du travail, la Cour supérieure et la Cour d’appel - Compte tenu de la modification législative apportée à l’art. 46 du Code du travail suite à l’arrêt U.E.S., local 298 c. Bibeault, [1988] 2 R.C.S. 1048, la question de l’aliénation ou de la concession d’une entreprise relève-t-elle maintenant de la compétence stricto sensu du commissaire du travail? - Dans l’affirmative, les décisions du commissaire du travail et du Tribunal du travail sont-elles manifestement déraisonnables?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 23 novembre 1994

Cour supérieure du Québec

(Forget j.c.s.)

Requête en révision judiciaire d’un jugement du Tribunal du travail confirmant une décision du commissaire du travail qui a constaté une concession partielle d’entreprise entre l’Hôpital et L’Intégrale rejetée

 

Le 1er avril 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Vallerand, Baudouin et Robert jj.c.a.)

Appel rejeté

 

Le 24 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée par Maison L’Intégrale Inc.

 

Le 31 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée par Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies

 

 

 

                                                                             Gershon Stern et Zalman Stern

 

                                                                                                c. (25329)

 

                                                                                  Cité de Côte St-Luc (Qué.)

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit municipal - Droit fiscal - Taxe d’affaires - Procédure - Recours - Délai raisonnable - Actions en nullité de règlements municipaux imposant une taxe d’affaires intentées en vertu de l’art. 33 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. C-25 - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en substituant sa propre discrétion à celle exercée par le premier juge quant au caractère raisonnable du délai dans lequel les demandeurs ont exercé leur recours en nullité du règlement 446? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en assujettissant à la règle du délai raisonnable le recours des demandeurs en nullité des règlements  1726, 1764, 1794 et 1820 alors que celui-ci soulevait une question d’absence de compétence de Ville intimée? - Subsidiairement, la Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en déclarant ce dernier recours tardif sans tenir compte des circonstances de la cause? - La Cour supérieure a-t-elle erré en jugeant que le règlement 446 avait été précédé de l’avis de motion exigé par la loi? - La Cour supérieure a-t-elle erré en déclarant que les règlements 1726, 1764, 1794 et 1820 étaient intra vires alors que la taxe d’affaires imposée par la Ville ne visait pas tous les types d’activités énumérées dans la disposition habilitante, soit l’art. 232 de la Loi sur la fiscalité municipale, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. F-2.1?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 18 avril 1990

Cour supérieure du Québec (Mercure j.c.s.)


Actions de l’intimée en recouvrement de taxes  d’affaires impayées accueillies; actions des demandeurs en nullité de règlements rejetées


 


Le 21 mars 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

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


Pourvois rejetés


 


Le 21 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

CORAM: La Forest, Cory and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Cory et Major

 

                                                                       Arrow Construction Products Limited

 

                                                                                                v. (25370)

 

                                                                       Attorney General of Nova Scotia (N.S.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Torts - Negligence - Negligent misrepresentation - Damages - Construction -Tender documents - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in overruling the trial judge’s findings of fact in the absence of an overriding or palpable error on the part of the trial judge - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in determining that the elements of negligent misrepresentation were not satisfied - Whether there is a duty of "fairness" owed by an owner to suppliers with whom it has no contract.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


November 17, 1995

Supreme Court of Nova Scotia

(Nathanson J.)


Applicant’s action in damages for negligent misrepresentation allowed, duty of fairness breached by Respondent


 


April 16, 1996

Nova Scotia Court of Appeal

(Chipman, Jones and Hallett JJ.A.)


Appeal allowed;  Applicant’s action dismissed, cross-appeal dismissed


 


June 14, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

                                                                 James Lawson Mattatall and Ann P. Mattatall

 

                                                                                                v. (25392)

 

                                                                                         Eric T. Hall (N.B.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Procedural law - Civil procedure - Limitation of actions - prescription - Extension of time to serve Notice of Action and Statement of Claim - Under Rule 3.02 of the Rules of Court of New Brunswick, does the defendant have to prove a substantial injustice in order to prevent the extension of time - Did the Court of Appeal err in allowing an extension of time where no special circumstances were shown to exist - Did the Court of Appeal err in deciding that there was an onus on the defendants to prove prejudice in order to prevent the granting of an extension of time?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

October 16, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick

(Turnbull J.)

Respondent’s motion to extend time to serve Notice of Action and Statement of Claim granted

 

April 18, 1996

Court of Appeal of New Brunswick

(Hoyt, Rice and Bastarache JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

July 15, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Motion to extend time and application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et McLachlin

 

                                                                                     Trevor E. Finch, P.Eng.

 

                                                                                                v. (25349)

 

                                                               The Association of Professional Engineers and

                                                                     Geoscientists of British Columbia (B.C.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Reasonable Apprehension of Bias - Circumstances which deprive tribunal of appearance of institutional independence - Whether reports placed by Professional Association in publications circulated to its members can create a  reasonable apprehension of bias that a disciplinary Panel comprised of the members would be biased by the reports.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

June 15, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Edwards J.)

Application dismissed

 

April 10, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Goldie, Prowse and Newbury JJ.A)

Appeal dismissed

 

June 3, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

                                                                Porto Seguro Companhia de Serguros Gerais

 

                                                                                                v. (25340)

 

                                        Balkan S.A., Fednav Ltd., Ubem S.A., The owners and all other interested

                                     in the vessel “Federal Danube”, the vessel “Federal Danube” (F.C.A.)(Qué.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative law - Procedural law - Shipping and navigation - Evidence - Expert evidence - Natural justice - Claim for damages to cargo from a collision between two ships - English practice proscribing expert witnesses on matters pertaining to navigation and seamanship where assessors are used - Having determined that the English practice did not apply to prevent a judge sitting with assessors who are seamen from hearing experts testify on subjects outside the competence of the assessors, should the majority of the Federal Court of Appeal have remanded the case to the Trial Division for re-hearing? - Whether natural justice requires that expert witnesses called by the parties be heard where nautical assessors are also used.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

August 19, 1994

Federal Court, Trial Division (Tremblay-Lamer J.)

Claim for damages in vessel collision dismissed

 

March 29, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal (Pratte and MacGuigan JJ.A. and Chevalier D.J.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

May 28, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 6, 1996 / LE 6 SEPTEMBRE 1996

 

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                                                                                           Georges Balkan

 

                                                                                                c. (25354)

 

                                                                Commission des transports du Québec (Qué.)

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit administratif - Compétence - Functus officio - Renouvellement de permis -  Rapport d’un inspecteur de la Commission des transports recommandant d’entreprendre des procédures aux fins de révoquer le permis de taxi du demandeur au motif qu’il a loué son permis contrairement à l’art. 33.1 de la Loi sur le transport par taxi, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. T-11.1 - Demandeur avisé de la tenue d’une audition - Renouvellement du permis autorisé par le vice-président de la Commission avant l’audition - Permis du demandeur révoqué par la Commission suite à l’audition de sa cause - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en concluant que le principe du functus officio ne trouvait aucune application dans la présente cause puisque le vice-président n’était pas saisi de la question de savoir si le permis du demandeur devait être révoqué et qu’il n’a pas statué définitivement sur cette question? - Chandler c. Alberta Association of Architects, [1989] 2 R.C.S. 848.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 30 juillet 1991

Commission des transports du Québec


Permis de transport par véhicule-taxi du demandeur révoqué


 


Le 15 avril 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Fish, Deschamps et Biron [ad hoc] jj.c.a.)


Appel rejeté


 


Le 3 juin 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

CORAM:   La Forest, Cory and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Cory et Major

 

                                                                                            Thomas White

 

                                                                                                v. (25397)

 

                                                                              Woolworth Canada Inc. (Nfld.)

 

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

 

May 17, 1993

Supreme Court of Newfoundland (Riche J.)

Judgment for Plaintiff

 

April 23, 1996

Supreme Court of Newfoundland, Court of Appeal

(Goodridge C.J.N., Marshall and Steele JJ.A.)

Appeal and cross-appeal dismissed

 

June 19, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

 

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et McLachlin

 

                                                                   332252 B.C. Ltd. and Douglas Bryan Kern

 

                                                                                                v. (25287)

 

                                                       Robert David Watson, Richard Bruce Tremayne Goepel,

                                                          Timothy Hames Maledy, Jacques Christopher Meyer

                                                                            and Thomas George Keast (B.C.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Canadian Charter Civil Rights - Procedural Law - Evidence - Barristers  and Solicitors - Did Court of Appeal err in dismissing appeal as abandoned?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

November 4, 1992

Supreme Court of British Columbia (McKenzie J.)

 

Judgment for Respondents

 

March 22, 1993

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Southin J.A.)

Application for stay of proceedings pending appeal heard June 3, 1993 denied

 

June 3, 1993

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Taylor, Gibbs and Hinds JJ.A.)

Application for review of Southin J.’s decision denied

 

June 16, 1993

Court of Appeal for British Columbia (Wood J.A.)

Application to set aside order on account of the Rules of the Court not having been followed denied

 

June 18, 1993

Court of Appeal for British Columbia (Wood J.A.)

 

June 30, 1993

Court of Appeal for British Columbia (Lambert J.A.)

Application to set aside order of June 16, 1993 denied

 

 

Application for leave to cross-examine on affidavits dismissed

 

March 3, 1994

Court of Appeal for British Columbia (Hollinrake J.A.)

Section 25 reference adjourned

 

 

 

October 19, 1995

Court of Appeal for British Columbia (Macfarlane J.A.)

Order that appeal be dismissed as abandoned

 

January 29, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Hinds, Williams and Proudfoot JJ.A.)

 

 

Application under s. 9(7) of the Court of Appeal Act to discharge or vary the order of October 19, 1995 dismissed

 

 

April 24, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

 

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

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 13, 1996 / LE 13 SEPTEMBRE 1996

 

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                                                                                    Her Majesty The Queen

 

                                                                                                v. (25404)

 

                                                                             William Lifchus (Crim.)(Man.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Trial - Meaning of “reasonable doubt” - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in concluding that the trial judge’s charge to the jury regarding “reasonable doubt” was wrong in law.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

November 30, 1994

Court of Queen’s Bench for Manitoba (Krindle J.)

Acquittal: theft over $1,000, Conviction: fraud over $1,000

 

May 28, 1996

Court of Appeal for Manitoba

(Scott C.J.M., Twaddle and Monnin JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed

 

June 25, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

                                                                                       Frank Shane Dorfer

 

                                                                                                v. (25432)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Search and Seizure - Exclusion of evidence - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that dental swabs used in providing dental care to the Applicant should have been admitted in evidence.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

February 22, 1994

Provincial Court of British Columbia (Filmer J.)

Conviction: Break and enter, and sexual assault

 

January 16, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Macfarlane, Ryan and Donald JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

July 22, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal and motion for the extension of time filed

 

 

 

                                                               Comité conjoint des matériaux de construction

 

                                                                                                c. (25346)

 

                                                                     Les grillages Bolar (Canada) Inc. (Qué.)

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit du travail - Convention collective - Législation - Interprétation - Le demandeur doit-il, pour se décharger du fardeau de preuve que lui impose l’article 2.01 du Décret sur l’industrie de la serrurerie et de la menuiserie métallique de la région de Montréal, R.R.Q. 1981, ch. D-2, r. 35, prouver l’assujettissement de l’employeur à la Loi sur les relations du travail dans l’industrie de la construction, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. R-20, et particulièrement au sous-alinéa f) de son article premier? - Les objets énumérés au sous-alinéa e) de l’article 2.01 du Décret sur l’industrie de la serrurerie et la menuiserie métallique de la région de Montréal comprennent-ils tous les objets du même genre pour autant qu’ils constituent des ouvrages de serrurerie et de menuiserie métallique et qu’ils sont fabriqués en atelier?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 14 février 1990

Cour du Québec (chambre civile) (Marleau j.c.q.)

Action accueillie et intimée condamnée à payer au demandeur la somme de 5 391,44$

 

Le 29 mars 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec (Chouinard, Tourigny [dissidente]et Deschamps jj.c.a.)

Appel accueilli

 

Le 27 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

                                         Peter M. King, Robert M. Morrison, Richard B. Camsell, Don J. Flarity

                                                                                                        

                                                                                                    - and -

 

                                            Robert F. Swannell, John Doherty, Dennis Nixon, Beverly Rosskopf,

                                          Bradley Powers, James Dearden, James Thompson, Edward Pendleton,

                                        Brian Pendleton, Peter Woodhouse, Robert Thomas, Laurence Nicolson,

                                        Bruce McComb, Ivan Waters, Robert Govier, Ivan Burt, George MacLeod

 

                                                                                                v. (25362)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Labour law - Unemployement insurance - Did the Federal Court of Appeal err in finding that payments under the Ontario Employee Wage Protection Program are “relief grants” under the Unemployment Insurance Regulations?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


May 18, 1995

Umpire (Simpson J.)


(1) Swannell group of Applicants’ appeals from  Unemployment Insurance Commission’s decision allowed; finding that Employee Wage Protection Program payments are exempt earnings under the Unemployment Insurance Regulations; (2) Respondent’s appeal from Unemployment Insurance Commission’s decision dismissed; finding in (1) applied


 


April 10, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Strayer, MacGuigan and Robertson JJ.A.)


Respondent’s application for judicial review of both May 18, 1995 decisions allowed


 


June 7, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

CORAM: La Forest, Cory and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Cory et Major

 

                                                                                    Her Majesty The Queen

 

                                                                                                v. (25436)

 

                                                                            Robert Scott Milne (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Impaired Driving - Sobriety tests - Whether Crown can rely on results of sobriety tests to prove impairment at trial - Exclusion of evidence - Whether trial judge can exclude evidence where no Charter  violation - R. v. Harrer, [1995] 3 S.C.R. 562 - Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 48(1).

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

April 25, 1994

Ontario Court (Provincial Division) (Michel J.)

Conviction: impaired driving

 

March 17, 1995

Ontario Court (General Division)(Noble J.)

Summary conviction appeal dismissed

 

May 16, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Houlden, Abella and Moldaver JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed

 

July 26, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

Miriam Fox, Executrix of the Estate of Ralph Fox, deceased, and in her personal capacity, Ralph James Fox and Shayne Melissa Fox

 

                                                                                                v. (25314)

 

                                                                                         Walter Fox (Ont.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Estates - Wills - Executors and administrators - Trusts and trustees - Power of Encroachment - Extent to which trustee may exercise unfettered and absolute power to encroach - Whether this power can be used to defeat interest of income or residual beneficiary - Improper motivation of executrix - Whether court may interfere with absolute discretion to set aside transactions flowing from  improper motivation - Whether existence of a proper motive to exercise power to encroach  validates encroachment where improper motive concurrently exists.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

November 29, 1994

Ontario Court of Justice (General Division)

(Haley, J.)

Application to remove executrix dismissed

 

February 7, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(McKinlay, Catzman, Galligan, JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed

 

May 7, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

July 9, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada (Cory, J.)

 

Respondent’s application to dismiss leave to appeal application dismissed

 

 

 

                                                               Paul D.N. Temelini and Bendelam Corporation

 

                                                                                                v. (25376)

 

                                           Allan C. Bonnis and The Nickel District Conservation Authority, and

                                  William C. Clewlow and Egan Real Estate and Insurance Agency Limited (Ont.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Torts - Negligence - Negligent misrepresentation - Whether the Court of Appeal applied the wrong standard of review in reversing the lower court’s findings of fact in the absence of palpable and overriding error.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


January 13, 1992

Ontario Court (General Division) (Gordon O.C.J.)


Applicants’ claim allowed


 


April 18, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Brooke, Weiler and Austin JJ.A.)


Applicants’ appeal dismissed; Respondents cross appeal allowed


 


June 17, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

                                                                           His Honour, Judge Ian P. Mackin,

                                                            a Judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick

 

                                                                                                v. (25378)

 

                                                                  His Honour Chief Judge H. Hazen Strange,

                                                  Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick (N.B.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative law - Prerogative writs - Mandamus - Judicial independence - Whether the appeal court erred in law in finding that all the requirements for an order in the nature of mandamus had been satisfied without considering whether the Applicant was judicially independent.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

November 14, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick

(Russell J.)

Order in the nature of mandamus issued directing Applicant to hold sittings at the places and on the days designated by the respondent and to hear and determine cases properly brought before him on those sittings; Applicant ordered to pay $1,000 in costs

 

April 12, 1996

Court of Appeal of New Brunswick

(Ryan, Turnbull and Bastarache JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed in part: order “to hear and determine the cases properly before him” struck out as redundant; costs order set aside

 

June 11, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et McLachlin

 

                                                                      Regina Board of Police Commissioners

 

                                                                                                v. (25371)

 

                                                                              Regina Police Association Inc.

 

                                                                                                    - and -

                                                                                                        

                                                                Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board (Sask.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Labour law - Labour relations - Administrative law - Judicial review - Jurisdiction - Payment of wages to employees who take part in job actions, work slow downs, or other forms of strike action - Section 11(1)(e) of The Trade Union Act, R.S.S. 1978, c. T-17, as amended.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


July 26, 1994

Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board

(Bilson, Hutchinson and Jones)


Respondent Association found to have engaged in and ordered to refrain from unfair labour practice


 


July 26, 1994

Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board

(Bilson, Hutchinson and Jones)


Applicant found to have committed and ordered to refrain from unfair labour practice; ordered to pay compensation to employees


 


June 15, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan

(Maurice J.)


Applicant’s application allowed, Board’s decision quashed


 


April 11, 1996

Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan

(Tallis, Gerwing and Jackson JJ.A.)


Respondent Association’s appeal allowed


June 10, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

                                                                       Frank John Spadafora and Nick Scali

 

                                                                                                v. (25353)

 

                                                                               Pavao Ozanic, Josipa Ozanic,

                                                                      Ivan Ozanic and Durdica Ozanic (Ont.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Property law - Landlord and tenant - Right of Distress - Loss of prospective rental income - When, whether and to whom notice of intent to claim damages for loss of prospective rental income is required - Dispute between holder of security interest in chattels and landlord claiming right to distrain chattels.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 15, 1992

Ontario Court (General Division) (Fleury O.C.J.)

 

April 3, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Carthy, Labrosse and Austin JJ.A.)

 

June 3, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Action and counter-claim allowed

 

 

 

Appeal dismissed

 

 

 

Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

                                                                     Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

 

                                                                                                v. (25399)

 

                                                              Wellington Guarantee, a Division of Wellington

                                                                                       Insurance Company

 

                                                                                                    - and -

 

                                                           Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Vancouver,

                                                                                    British Columbia (B.C.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Commercial law - Insurance  - Contracts - Interpretation - Did the Court of Appeal err in determining that a term excluding coverage for “bodily injury, sickness or disease” excludes coverage for nervous shock, depression, insomnia, psychological injury, loss of income and earning capacity, and mental distress - Does the doctrine of reasonable expectation entitle  the Applicant to coverage despite the interpretation of “bodily injury, sickness and disease”?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

April 6, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia

(Lander J.)

Application for a declaration that the insurer is not liable to indemnify the insured for costs of a legal defence dismissed

 

April 23, 1996

Court of Appeal of British Columbia

(Lambert, Hinds and Proudfoot JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed, declaration granted

 

June 21, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

                                                                                 Continental Motor Inn Ltd.

 

                                                                                                v. (25377)

 

                                                                The Assessor for the City of Winnipeg (Man.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Taxation - Assessment - Whether assessor can apply a market rent assessment method - Whether denial of appeal of a tax assessment is a denial of a right to challenge the legality of a tax - Proper test for granting leave to appeal a tax assessment - Municipal Board’s assessment of evidence - Burden of proof regarding assessments.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 4, 1995

Court of Appeal of Manitoba (Monnin J.A.)


Leave to appeal from Municipal Board denied


 


April 26, 1996

Court of Appeal of Manitoba

(Twaddle, Lyon and Helper JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


June 10, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 20, 1996 / LE 20 SEPTEMBRE 1996

 

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

Le juge en chef Lamer et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                                                                                               Brian Graff

 

                                                                                                v. (25184)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Watch and beset - Whether the trial judge erred in law in finding that the Applicant had beset or watched the complainant’s residence or place of employment - Whether the trial judge erred in law in finding that the Applicant possessed the intent to compel the complainant to abstain from doing anything she has a lawful right to do, or to do anything which she has a lawful right to abstain - Whether the Applicant’s conduct was excused because his presence at the complainant’s was for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information - Whether the trial judge erred in law in applying the legal test for criminal harassment.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


December 3, 1993

Ontario Court of Justice (Provincial Division)

(Charles J.)



 


Conviction under s.423(1) (f) of the Criminal Code 


May 31, 1994

Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) (Allen J.)


 


Appeal of summary conviction dismissed


October 6, 1995

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(McKinlay, Abella and Austin JJ.A.)


 


Further appeal dismissed


March 5, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


 


Application for leave to appeal filed



 

 

 

                                                                                 Norman William Heckman

 

                                                                                                v. (25447)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Murder - Intent - Mens rea - Mental disorder - Charge to jury - Whether the trial judge erred in instructing the jury that they should decide first whether murder had been committed by the Applicant and then decide whether he was not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder - Whether the trial judge adequately related evidence of mental disorder to issue of intent.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

October 26, 1996

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

Conviction: second degree murder

 

 

October 4,1995

Court of Appeal for Alberta (Conrad, Coté, Hunt JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

 

August 16, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

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

 

 

 

                                                                         Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

 

                                                                                                v. (25442)

 

                                                                            Dr. Robert R. Ross (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Procedural law - Pre-trial procedure - Subpoena duces tecum - Whether the Applicant should be required to produce for the Court and the Respondent a list of “out-takes” in its possession.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


June 14, 1996

Ontario Court (General Division) (Salhany J.)


Applicant ordered to provide a list of materials in its possession within 30 days


 


August 13, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

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

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

 

                                                                               Madame Mary Margaret Hall

 

                                                                                                c. (25369)

 

                                                                Le sous-ministre du Revenu du Québec (Qué.)

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit fiscal - Droit des biens - Successions - Législation - Interprétation - Saisine - Les intérêts et dividendes générés par le portefeuille de placements du défunt mari de la demanderesse doivent-ils être inclus dans le calcul du revenu de cette dernière, légataire universelle résiduaire, pour l’année d’imposition 1986 conformément aux art. 652 et 663 de la Loi sur les impôts, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. I-3, ou doivent-ils être inclus dans le calcul du revenu de la succession? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en interprétant l’expression  “droit d’en exiger le paiement” qui apparaît à l’art. 652? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré dans son interprétation des principes de droit civil traitant de la saisine de l’exécuteur testamentaire et de la saisine du légataire? - Art. 409, 871, 891 et 918 du Code civil du Bas-Canada.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 19 juillet 1991

Cour du Québec, chambre civile (Robichaud j.c.q.)


Pourvoi de la demanderesse à l’encontre d’une cotisation de l’intimé rejeté


 


Le 17 avril 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(LeBel, Tourigny et Forget [ad hoc] jj.c.a.)


Appel rejeté


 


Le 14 juin 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

CORAM: La Forest, Cory and Major JJ. /

Les juges La Forest, Cory et Major

 

                                                                                                    S.R.H.

 

                                                                                                v. (25361)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Young offenders - Transfer to ordinary court - Whether the Court of Appeal applied the proper onus of proof when reviewing whether the Applicant should be transferred to ordinary court - Whether the Youth Court judge and Court of Appeal properly considered that the Applicant’s silence when questioned by police officers could be used as a factor supporting the transfer to ordinary court.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

September 22, 1994

Provincial Court of Alberta (Buchanan J.)

Application to transfer to ordinary court granted

 

March 13, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Hetherington, Russell and Trussler JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

June 7, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal and motion for the extension of time filed

 

                                                                                                    D.B.L.

 

                                                                                                v. (25385)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Young offenders - Transfer to ordinary court - Whether the Court of Appeal applied the proper onus of proof when reviewing whether the Applicant should be transferred to ordinary court - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in its interpretation and application of the test for transfer as set out in s. 16(1.1) of the Young Offenders Act.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


September 22, 1994

Provincial Court of Alberta, Youth Division

(Buchanan J.)


Application to transfer to ordinary court granted


 


March 13, 1996

Court of Appeal for Alberta

(Hetherington, Russell and Trussler JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


June 18, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal and motion for the extension of time filed


 

 

 

                                                                                              Mario Spina

 

                                                                                                v. (25396)

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Inconsistent verdicts - Trafficking in narcotics - Possession of proceeds of crime - Whether conviction on trafficking charge and acquittal on possession of proceeds charge are inconsistent verdicts - Whether an appellate court, on finding inconsistent verdicts, is required to quash the conviction.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

March 13, 1995

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

Conviction : Two counts of trafficking cocaine.

Acquittal : Two counts of possession of the proceeds of crime

 

May 17, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Bracco, Conrad and Cote JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

June 18, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

Stephen William Kenneth Fegol and Albert Roy Fegol

 

v. (25437)

 

The Manitoba Agricultural Credit Corporation

 

and

 

N.M. Tilley Realty Ltd. (Man.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Property Law - Land Titles - Mortgages - Real Property - Procedural Law - Actions - Contempt of Court - Judgments and Orders - Whether triable issue disclosed by a claim that a mortgagee had failed to notify a mortgagor of its intent to sell a mortgage -  Whether triable issue disclosed by a claim to set aside foreclosure proceedings - Soundness of a contempt order for failing to obey a judicial prohibition against filing caveats - Whether land was farm land within the meaning of The Family Farm Protection Act, C.C.S.M., c. F15. 

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

February 23, 1994

Court of Queen’s Bench (Master Harrison)

 

April 20, 1994

Court of Queens Bench (Smith J.)

Applicants’ action against Manitoba Agricultural Credit Corporation dismissed

 

Appeal dismissed

 

April 27, 1994

Court of Queen’s Bench (Master Lee)

 

June 20, 1994

Court of Queens Bench (Smith J.)

Applicant Stephen Fegol’s counterclaim dismissed and summary judgment granted to N.M. Tilley Realty Ltd.

 

Appeal dismissed, caveats vacated from land titles and writ of possession granted to N.M. Tilley Realty Ltd.

 

January 10, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench (Schulman J.)

Applicant S. Fegol’s action against N.M. Tilley Realty Ltd. dismissed

 

October 27, 1994

Court of Queen’s Bench (Morse J.)

 

January 20, 1995

Court of Queens Bench (Schwartz J.)

Applicant S. Fegol prohibited from registering caveats or encumbrances on title of land and caveats vacated

 

S. Fegol declared in contempt, penalty adjourned sine die and disposition postponed

 

October 27, 1995

Court of Appeal (Huband, Twaddle and Helper, JJ.A.)

Appeals dismissed

 

July 25, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

 

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka et McLachlin

 

 

                                                           The Ministry of Labour for the Province of Ontario,

                                                                             Employment Standards Branch

 

                                                                                                v. (24711)

 

                                                                            Zittrer, Siblin & Associates Inc.,

                                      Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Limited (Ont.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Labour law - Bankruptcy - Statutes - Interpretation - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the employees are not entitled to termination and severance pay under the Employment Standards Act when their employment is ended involuntarily on their part by their employer being petitioned into bankruptcy and thus cannot claim termination and severance pay as ordinary creditors in a bankrupt estate - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in adopting a narrow and literal interpretation of the Employment Standards Act despite the Supreme Court of Canada holding in Machtinger v. HOJ Industries Ltd. [1992] 1 S.C.R. 986 that the ESA should be given a broad liberal interpretation to best obtain its object of providing minimum standards to employees.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

December 5, 1991

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Farley J.)

Application allowed that the employees' claims for termination pay and severance pay may be proved as unsecured and unpreferred debts in the bankruptcy

 

March 10, 1995

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Grange, McKinlay and Austin JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed: Trustee's disallowance for termination pay and severance pay restored for employees whose employment ceased on the making of the receiving order on April 14, 1989; Cross-appeal allowed: Ministry had status to make claims for termination pay and severance pay on behalf of former employees.

 

June 23, 1995

Supreme Court of Canada

(L’Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka and McLachlin JJ.)

Application for leave to appeal submitted

 

August 30, 1995

Supreme Court of Canada

Notice of discontinuance of the application for leave to appeal filed

 

June 24, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal and motion for ancillary relief filed by Adrien et al.

 

 

 

                                                                      Bohdan Gordon Alexander Kapelus and

                                                                                      Jeannine M. Kapelus

 

                                                                                                v. (25383)

 

                                                                      Carpathia Credit Union Limited (Man.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Procedural Law - Pre-trial Procedure - Appeals - Perfecting an appeal - Requirement that an order made on consent or to costs only is not subject to appeal except by leave of Judge making the order - Section 90(1), The Court of Queen’s Bench Act, C.C.S.M., c. C280.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


February 20, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench for Manitoba (Schwartz, J.)


Appeal of cost assessment dismissed


 


April 18, 1996

Court of Appeal for Manitoba

(Twaddle, Lyon and Kroft JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


June 17, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

                                                                                      Beth Naomi Fontaine

 

                                                                                                v. (25381)

 

                                                            Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (B.C.)

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Torts - Negligence - Motor vehicles - Circumstantial Evidence - Res ipsa loquitur - Appeal - Standard of review - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in declining to review the trial judge’s acceptance of explanations presented by the defence in response to a plea of res ipsa loquitur - Whether the explanations raised by the defence in response to a plea of res ipsa loquitur must make it equally likely or more likely that the incident happened with no negligence - What standard of proof the explanations offered by the defence must reach - Whether the standard of care owed by a driver to his passengers changes when the road conditions change - Whether abnormal conditions make the res ipsa loquitur principle inapplicable.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

May 4, 1994

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Boyd J.)

Action dismissed

 

April 19, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(McEachern C.J., Gibbs and Proudfoot JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

June 18, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 


JUDGMENTS ON APPLICATIONS

FOR LEAVE

JUGEMENTS RENDUS SUR LES DEMANDES D'AUTORISATION

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

AUGUST 26, 1996 / LE 26 AOÛT 1996

 

25196MICHELINE GRANGER  c.  SOUS-MINISTRE DU REVENU DU QUÉBEC  et  RÉGIE DE L’ASSURANCE-MALADIE DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

 

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

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Procédure - Procédure civile - Jugements et ordonnances - Rétractation - Cour supérieure concluant que les honoraires professionnels de la demanderesse sont saisissables en totalité - Permission d’appel accordée par la Cour d’appel - Intimé produisant une mainlevée de la saisie-arrêt - Requête de la demanderesse pour mise au rôle rejetée par le greffier au motif que l’appel n’avait plus d’objet - Requête en rétractation de la décision du greffier déposée par la demanderesse - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en rejetant la requête en rétractation?

 

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 24 mars 1994

Cour supérieure du Québec (Trudel j.c.s.)


Contestation par l’intimé de la déclaration négative de la Régie, tierce-saisie, accueillie en partie


 


Le 28 avril 1994

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


Requête pour permission d’appel accueillie


 


Le 7 novembre 1995

Cour d’appel du Québec (Legault, greffier)


Requête pour mise au rôle rejetée


 


Le 11 janvier 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Proulx, Otis et Biron jj.c.a.)


Requête en rétractation rejetée


 


Le 11 mars 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

AUGUST 29, 1996 / LE 29 AOÛT 1996

 

25303CONSTANT GAUDREAULT  c.  SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Crim.)(Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                La demande de prorogation de délai est rejetée.

 

                The application for extension of time is dismissed.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Procédures - Droit criminel - Outrage au tribunal - Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Violation d’une ordonnance rendue en matière familiale - Accusations portées en vertu de l’art. 127  du Code criminel  - Plaidoyer de culpabilité - Prorogation des délais d’appel et autorisation d’appel accordées - Appel accueilli en partie, annulation des déclarations de culpabilité, retrait du plaidoyer de culpabilité, acquittement du demandeur - Application des art. 49 et ss.du Code de procédure civile - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur de droit en ordonnant l’acquittement du demandeur plutôt que l’inscription d’un jugement déclarant la nullité de la dénonciation et de tout ce qui a été fait en vertu de celle-ci? - Si la dénonciation est nulle ab initio, l’ordonnance d’acquittement plutôt que l’inscription d’un jugement déclarant la nullité de la dénonciation et de tout ce qui a été fait en vertu de cette dernière constitue-t-elle pour le demandeur une violation de ses droits fondamentaux garantis par les art. 7, 11d) et 15 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés ? - En l’espèce, l’ordonnance annulant la condamnation avec effet en date du jugement intervenu constitue-t-elle pour le demandeur une violation de ses droits fondamentaux garantis par les art. 7, 11d) et 11g) de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés ?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 3 novembre 1989

Cour du Québec (Morier J.C.Q.)


Plaidoyer de culpabilité: Deux chefs d’accusation d’avoir contrevenu à l’art. 127  du Code criminel 


 


Le 22 octobre 1990

Cour du Québec (Morier J.C.Q.)


Peine: Une journée de prison et trois ans de probation


 


Le 9 juillet 1992

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Fish J.C.A.)


Requête du demandeur en prorogation de délai pour interjeter appel à l’encontre des deux déclarations de culpabilité et des deux peines accueillie


 


Le 21 décembre 1995

Cour d’appel du Québec (Michaud J.C.Q., Mailhot et

Nuss, JJ.C.A.)


Appel accueilli en partie, déclarations de culpabilité cassées et annulées, retrait du plaidoyer de culpabilité et acquittement du demandeur


 


Le 7 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel et de prorogation de délai déposée


 

 

 

25304CONSTANT GAUDREAULT  c.  SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Crim.)(Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                La demande de prorogation de délai est rejetée.

 

                The application for extension of time is dismissed.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Procédures - Compétence - Droit criminel - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur de droit en concluant que le juge Morier avait juridiction pour prononcer  une ordonnance de mise en liberté provisoire sujet à une promesse assortie de conditions? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle commis une erreur de droit en concluant que les principes de l’arrêt Taylor, [1990] 3 R.C.S. 892, s’appliquent à une condition d’une promesse remise à un juge de paix à la suite d’une ordonnance de mise en liberté provisoire? - Dans les circonstances de la présente affaire, la Cour d’appel a-t-elle commis une erreur de droit en concluant que le juge à l’enquête préliminaire a correctement agi en citant le demandeur à procès sur de nouveaux chefs d’accusation qui découlaient “de la même affaire”? - Dans les circonstances de la présente affaire, la Cour d’appel  a-t-elle mal exercé son pouvoir discrétionnaire en refusant au demandeur la permission de retirer son plaidoyer de culpabilité sur chacun des chefs?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 13 septembre 1990

Cour du Québec

(Dionne J.C.Q.)


Plaidoyer de culpabilité: Six chefs d’accusation d’avoir contrevenu au par. 145(3)  du Code criminel ;  un chef d’accusation d’avoir contrevenu à l’al. 264.1(1) a) du Code criminel 


 


Le 14 septembre 1990

Cour du Québec

(Dionne J.C.Q.)


Peine:  Deux mois de prison à être purgés de façon discontinue et probation avec surveillance d’une durée de deux ans


 


Le 12 août 1992

Cour d’appel du Québec (Tyndale J.C.A.)


Requête du demandeur en prorogation de délai pour interjeter appel accueillie


 


Le 21 décembre 1995

Cour d’appel du Québec (Michaud, J.C.Q., Mailhot et

Nuss, JJ.C.A.)


Appel rejeté


 


Le 7 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel et de prorogation de délai déposée


 

 

 

25185HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN  v.  ALLAN EDWARD LEVO AND DEREK ALLAN EDWARDS (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Sentencing - Did the Ontario Court of Appeal err in law in its interpretation of the role of general deterrence and denunciation in the sentencing process, and, in particular, in relation to domestic violence? - Did the Ontario Court of Appeal misinterpret its role in setting sentencing principles which will influence societal values in relation to domestic violence? - Did the Ontario Court of Appeal err in law in defining the test for the admission of fresh evidence on sentence appeals, pursuant to s. 687  of the Criminal Code ?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

April 26, 1993

Ontario Court (General Division) (Noble J.)

Respondent Levo sentenced to ten years imprisonment for attempted murder

 

November 15, 1993

Ontario Court (General Division) (Boissonneault J.)

Respondent Edwards sentenced to nine years imprisonment for attempted murder

 

February 13, 1996

Ontario Court of Appeal

(Finlayson, Carthy and Labrosse JJ.A)

Crown’s application for leave to adduce fresh evidence dismissed; leave to appeal granted and appeal against sentence dismissed

 

April 12, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

25245MARIA DI ZAZZO  c.  LE GROUPE R.C.D. INC., PASQUALE TÉOLIS, LA MUNICIPALITÉ RÉGIONALE DU COMTÉ DES MOULINS, LA CORPORATION MUNICIPALE DE LA PAROISSE DE LA PLAINE ET GILLES RENAUD (Qué.)

 

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

 

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

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit municipal - Municipalités - Vente d’un immeuble pour taxes - Erreur dans la description cadastrale du lot - Nullité relative - Absence de préjudice - Application des articles 23 du Code municipal, L.R.Q., chap. c-27.1, et 2168 du Code civil du Bas-Canada - Les intimés ont-ils respecté les obligations strictes imposées par le Code municipal lors de la vente pour taxes de l’immeuble, propriété de l’auteur de la demanderesse? - Le non-respect des formalités prévues au Code municipal entraîne-t-il la nullité absolue de la vente?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 23 décembre 1993

Cour supérieure de Québec

(Filiatreault J.C.S.)


Requête de l’intimée Le Groupe C.D.R. Inc. pour jugement déclaratoire accueillie en partie;  Requête de la demanderesse Di Zazzo en intervention et annulation de la vente rejetée


 


Le 29 janvier 1996

Cour d’appel de Québec

(Tourigny, Brossard et Fish JJ.C.A.)


Appel de la demanderesse rejeté avec dépens


 


Le 29 mars 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

25290HARVEY KALEF  v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (F.C.A.)(Ont.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier 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 - Taxation - Statutes - Company law - Bankruptcy - Interpretation - Directors’ liability to withhold and pay amounts due by a corporation under the Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1952, c. 48, as amended - Does the director of a corporation cease to be a director for the purposes of section 227.1(4) of the Income Tax Act, when a trustee in bankruptcy is appointed?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

December 14, 1994

Tax Court of Canada (Beaubier J.)

Appeal from the assessment made under subsection 227.1 of the Income Tax Act, allowed

 

March 1, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Stone, Linden and McDonald JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed

 

April 26, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25164PETER FALLON SR. AND PETER FALLON JR.  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Committal to stand trial - Whether Court of Appeal erred in holding that there was some evidence upon which the Applicants could be committed to stand trial on the charges of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and receiving secret commissions - Whether Court of Appeal erred in their definition of what constitutes an agency relationship; finding that the Applicant’s behaviour could amount to fraud; and that cooperation among parties was evidence of a conspiracy upon which a reasonably instructed jury could commit.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


February 10, 1994

Ontario Court (Provincial Division) (Martin J.)


Applicants committed to stand trial on charges of theft, fraud, and conspiracy to commit theft and fraud


 


September 5, 1995

Ontario Court of Justice (General Division)

(Forestell J.)


Application to quash order to stand trial dismissed


 


February 14, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario



 


(Austin, Osborne and Rosenberg JJ.A)


Appeal allowed in part: order to stand trial on the charges of theft and conspiracy to commit theft quashed


 


April 15, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 5, 1996 / LE 5 SEPTEMBRE 1996

 

25243WALTER HRUSHKA, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF SAM HUBIC, DECEASED  v.  ADELINE PEARCE (Sask.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Property law - Wills - Intestacy - Statutes - Interpretation - Whether the Respondent is a lawful beneficiary of the Estate of Sam Hubic - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in applying ss. 40-42 of The Children’s Law Act, S.S. 1990, c.C-8.1 in a proceeding commenced prior to the enactment of The Children’s Law Act - Whether a court order is sufficient acknowledgement for the purposes of s.17(2)(a) of the Intestate Succession Act, R.S.S. 1978, c.I-3, repealed by The Children’s Law Act.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


August 21, 1992

Court of Queen’s Bench, Saskatchewan (Hunter J.)


Claim allowed


 


January 31, 1996

Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan

(Jackson, Bayda, and Sherstobitoff JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


March 29, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25253THE UNION OF B.C. PERFORMERS, ALSO KNOWN AS B.C. PERFORMERS ACTRA LOCAL 2, CATHERINE LOUGH, PETER PARTRIDGE, SAM SARKAR, SCOTT SWANSON & ALEX TAYLOR  v.  RICHARD LEWIS, DORIS BLOMGREN & LIZA ST. DON, SUING ON THEIR OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF ACTRA B.C. PERFORMERS LOCAL 2  and  ALLIANCE OF CANADIAN CINEMA TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS, ACTRA PERFORMERS GUILD, ACTRA B.C. PERFORMERS, LOCAL 1 AND ACTRA FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY (B.C.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier 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

 

Labour law - Collective agreement - Property law - Trusts and trustees - Whether a collective agreement created a trust - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in their interpretation of a standard form collective agreement - Whether the rule requiring unanimous consent of beneficiaries to amend a trust applies in the context of a benefit plan for employees who have assented, through the union constitution, to governance by a two-thirds majority.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


May 3, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Huddart J.)


Respondents’ declaration granted


 


January 29, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Finch, Ryan, and Newbury JJ.A.)


Applicants’ action dismissed


 


March 29, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25139NEVILLE BARRINGTON  c.  COMMISSION D'APPEL EN MATIÈRE DE LÉSIONS PROFESSIONNELLES, RÉAL BRASSARD, CANADIAN AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL ET COMMISSION DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA SÉCURITÉ DU TRAVAIL (Qué.)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Procédure - Procédure civile - Appel - Certificat d’appel déserté - Article 503.1 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q., c. C-25 - Défaut de produire un mémoire d’appel dans le délai imparti -  Raisons de santé et motifs d’ordre économique - Exercice du pouvoir discrétionnaire de la Cour d’appel aux termes de l’article 523 C.p.c.- La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en refusant de proroger les délais de production du mémoire du demandeur ainsi qu’en refusant la production d’un mémoire hors délai et la révocation d’un certificat d’appel déserté?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 6 février 1992

Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, Bureau de révision (Senay, Président, et McDonald et Brousseau, membres)


Demande de révision du travailleur rejetée: Le demandeur n’a pas été victime le 28 novembre 1990 d’une lésion professionnelle


 


Le 6 février 1992

Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, Bureau de révision (Senay, Président, et McDonald et Brousseau, membres)


Demande de révision du travailleur rejetée: Le demandeur n’a pas été victime le 15 octobre 1989 d’une rechute


 


Le 16 janvier 1995

Commission d’appel en matière de lésions professionnelles (Brassard, commissaire)


Appels du demandeur rejetés


 


Le 4 avril 1995

Cour supérieure du Québec (Denis j.c.s.)


Requête en évocation du demandeur rejetée


 


Le 6 décembre 1995

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Mailhot, Tourigny et Fish jj.c.a.)


Requête en prorogation du délai de production du mémoire, requête pour permission de produire un mémoire hors délai et requête en révocation d’un certificat d’appel déserté rejetées


 


Le 24 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Troisième requête en prorogation de délai et demande en autorisation d’appel déposées


 

 

 

25226SYNDICAT DU TRANSPORT DE MONTRÉAL  c.  RAYMOND LEBOEUF, ÈS QUALITÉS D'ARBITRE DE GRIEFS  et  SOCIÉTÉ DE TRANSPORT DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ URBAINE DE MONTRÉAL ET PAUL SCHOOCRAFT (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 du travail - Accidents du travail - Indemnisation - Arbitrage - Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - Compétence de l’arbitre de grief en regard de celle de la C.S.S.T. - L’arbitre intimé était-il juridiquement lié par les décisions rendues par la C.S.S.T. à l’intérieur de sa juridiction exclusive concernant le dossier du mis en cause? - Dans l’affirmative, l’arbitre intimé a-t-il excédé sa compétence en statuant sur la capacité du mis en cause à exercer son emploi, question qui relève de la compétence exclusive de la C.S.S.T., justifiant ainsi l’intervention des tribunaux supérieurs? - Application de l’arrêt Domtar Inc. c. Québec (C.A.L.P.), [1993] 2 R.C.S. 756.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 30 juillet 1993

Tribunal d’arbitrage (Leboeuf, arbitre)


Grief rejeté


 


Le 2 décembre 1993

Cour supérieure du Québec  (Marquis, J.C.S.)


Demande de révision judiciaire rejetée


 


Le 31 janvier 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec (Baudouin, Fish et

Forget [suppléant] JJ.C.A.)


Appel rejeté


 


Le 25 mars 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

25358MARTIN OMKE BAKKER  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(B.C.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing the Applicant’s application for the assignment of counsel pursuant to section 684  of the Criminal Code .

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

June 8, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Paris J.)

Convictions: 23 counts including buggery, sexual assault and indecent assault

 

April 26, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia (McEachern C.J.B.C., and Hollinrake and Proudfoot JJ.A)

Application for the appointment of counsel under s. 684  of the Criminal Code  denied

 

 

May 23, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25265GERALD RAYMOND VADER  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(B.C.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Sexual assault - Indecent assault - Evidence - Expert evidence - Whether the Respondent was required to call expert evidence to explain the complainant’s behavioural changes that she attributed to her allegations of sexual abuse in order to give probative value to that evidence.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

February 8, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia

(Meredith J.)

Convictions: sexual intercourse with a person under the age of fourteen, indecent assault and rape.

 

 

April 3, 1995

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(McEachern C.J.B.C., Newbury and Huddart JJ.A)

Appeal dismissed

 

 

May 30, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25328MARC-ANDRÉ BOULIANE  c.  L'HONORABLE JUGE ALBERT GOBEIL, EN SA QUALITÉ DE JUGE ENQUÊTEUR, MINISTRE DE LA SÉCURITÉ PUBLIQUE ET LE PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU QUÉBEC  et  SOCIÉTÉ RADIO-CANADA, JOURNAL DU QUÉBEC ET LE SOLEIL (Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                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 - Procès - Interdiction de publication - Ministre de la Sécurité publique demandant au  juge intimé de mener une enquête sur la conduite du demandeur, coroner pour le Gouvernement du Québec, et de soumettre un rapport en vertu de l’art. 14 de la Loi sur la recherche des causes et des circonstances des décès, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. R-0.2 - Requête en évocation et en jugement déclaratoire du demandeur visant à faire déclarer nuls l’enquête du juge intimé ainsi que le rapport rédigé par ce dernier - Demandeur requérant la mise sous scellé du rapport d’enquête jusqu’au prononcé du jugement ainsi qu’une ordonnance accessoire de non-publication des extraits de ce rapport qui seront cités pendant l’audition - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en ne concluant pas à l’exercice erroné de la discrétion judiciaire par le juge de première instance et en refusant en conséquence de rescinder le jugement refusant l’ordonnance de mise sous scellé et l’ordonnance de non-publication? - Dagenais c. Société Radio-Canada, [1994] 3 R.C.S. 835.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 18 décembre 1995

Cour supérieure du Québec

(Lebel j.c.s.)

Requêtes pour la mise sous scellé du rapport d’enquête du juge Gobeil et pour une ordonnance accessoire de non-publication rejetées

 

Le 21 mars 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Gendreau, Baudouin et Forget jj.c.a.)

Appel rejeté

 

Le 22 mars 1996

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

Requête en sursis d’exécution du jugement de la Cour d’appel accueillie

 

Le 21 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

25310FRANK D. D'ANDRADE, CERTIFIED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT CMA; ACIS  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, GOVERNMENT OF CANADA ET AL. (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

                The application for extension of time is dismissed.

 

                La demande de prorogation de délai est rejeté.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Application for extension of time in which to apply for judicial review dismissed - Whether discretion to refuse application properly exercised.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

January 26, 1995

Federal Court (Trial Division) (McGillis J.)

Motion for an extension of time dismissed

 

January 30, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Stone, Strayer and Décary JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

April 25, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25332GORDON STEPHEN WATSON  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(B.C.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Criminal contempt of court - Whether order made by court in civil dispute not involving Applicant but applying to everyone who has notice of order can give rise to criminal contempt charges -  Whether defences of necessity and justification apply - Whether Applicant was denied the right to make full answer and defence because Respondent did not disclose name of potential witness.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 13, 1994

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Mackenzie J.)


Conviction: criminal contempt of court


 


April 10, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Lambert, Rowles and Prowse JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


May 15, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25308PASCAL PIERRE BELLON  c.  LE PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU QUÉBEC (Crim.)(Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                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 - Procédure - Procédure préalable au procès - Tribunaux - Compétence - Ordonnance de blocage de biens en vertu de l’art. 462.33  du Code criminel , L.R.C. 1985, ch. C-46 , rendue par la Cour du Québec, chambre criminelle, à la demande de l’intimé - Affidavit et documents déposés au soutien de la demande de l’intimé mis sous scellé - Requête du demandeur pour obtenir l’accès au paquet scellé afin de préparer sa requête en restitution des biens ou en modification de l’ordonnance de blocage aux termes des art. 462.34(1) et 462.34(4) du Code - La Cour du Québec a-t-elle erré en concluant que même si les principes de transparence de la justice et d’accessibilité aux documents judiciaires s’appliquent dans les circonstances de cette affaire, la requête du demandeur pour l’ouverture du paquet scellé devrait être présentée, dans l’éventualité d’un procès, au juge du procès? - La Cour suprême a-t-elle compétence pour disposer de la présente demande d’autorisation déposée à l’encontre de la décision de la Cour du Québec?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 31 janvier 1996

Cour du Québec, chambre criminelle (Lagacé j.c.q.)


Requête du demandeur pour l’ouverture du paquet scellé rejetée


 


Le 2 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée



 


Le 27 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Requête en prorogation de délai déposée


 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 12, 1996 / LE 12 SEPTEMBRE 1996

 

25305JEAN-GUY BELLEGARDE  c.  BELL CANADA, DENIS OUELLETTE, SERGE DUQUETTE (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 du travail - Responsabilité civile - Recours - Dommages-intérêts - Tribunaux - Compétence - Action en dommages-intérêts intentée par le demandeur contre les intimés basée sur un prétendu complot ourdi par les contremaîtres Ouellette et Duquette dans le but de déposer une réprimande au dossier du demandeur - Cour supérieure concluant que le demandeur n’a pas réussi à prouver l’existence d’un complot - Refus de la Cour d’appel d’intervenir dans l’appréciation des faits et témoignages du premier juge tout en s’abstenant de trancher la question de savoir si la Cour supérieure était compétente pour se saisir du recours du demandeur - La Cour supérieure a-t-elle commis une erreur manifeste justifiant l’intervention de la Cour d’appel? - L’arbitre a-t-il compétence pour accorder des dommages? - La décision arbitrale annulant le congédiement du demandeur a-t-elle force de chose jugée? 

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 31 mai 1991

Cour supérieure du Québec (Benoît j.c.s.)

Action en dommages-intérêts rejetée

 

Le 22 février 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Vallerand, Gendreau et Philippon jj.c.a.)

Appel rejeté

 

Le 22 avril 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

25152HECTOR SIMARD  c.  SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                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

 

Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Droit criminel - Procédure sommaire - Droits linguistiques - Langue de l’accusé et du procès - Dénonciation - Validité d’une dénonciation rédigée en anglais lorsque l’accusé francophone a obtenu une ordonnance à l’effet que son procès soit entendu par un juge qui parle sa langue officielle - Code criminel , L.R.C. 1985, ch. C-46, art. 530 , 530.1 , 789 , 801 , 839 , 841(3)  - Charte , art. 7 , 10(a) , 11(a) , 14 , 15(1) , (2) , 16(1) , (3)  19, 20(1), 21, 23, 27.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 26 novembre 1992

Cour de l’Ontario (division provinciale) (Khawley j.)



 


Jugement interlocutoire: Dénonciation rédigée en anglais seulement sur un formulaire bilingue déclarée nulle et sans effet


Le 30 mars 1994

Cour de l’Ontario (division générale) (Morin j.)


 


Appel de l’intimée accueilli


Le 19 décembre 1995

Cour d’appel de l’Ontario

(Lacourcière, Arbour et Labrosse jj.c.a.)


 


Appel rejeté; l’ordonnance  enjoignant le juge de première instance à reprendre le procès, suite à la production, sur demande du demandeur, d’une



 


traduction écrite de la dénonciation


Le 2 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


 


Demande d’autorisation d’appel et requête en prorogation de délai déposées



 

 

 

25320ESAU TATATOAPIK  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(N.W.T.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

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

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Sexual assault - Charge to the jury - Reasonable doubt - Whether the trial judge’s charge to the jury regarding reasonable doubt was adequate given that he used the expression moral certainty to explain reasonable doubt - Whether the trial judge’s recharge to the jury on the issue of reasonable doubt was adequate in that it did not relate reasonable doubt to credibility.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 26, 1995

Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories

(Richard J.)


Conviction: sexual assault


 


January 17, 1996

Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories

(Tallis, Hudson, Schuler JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


May 15, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

25331CLAUDE BEAUDOIN, ÈS QUALITÉS D’EXÉCUTEUR TESTAMENTAIRE À LA SUCCESSION DE FEU WILFRID BEAUDOIN  c.  DAME YVETTE SÉNÉCHAL CHARBONNEAU, GILLES CHARBONNEAU, ANDRÉ CHARBONNEAU ET LOUISE VACHON (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 des biens - Biens meubles - Succession - Exécuteurs et administrateurs - Donations d’un bien mobilier - Procuration bancaire - Un transfert bancaire fait par mandataire peut-il constituer un don manuel?- Un transfert bancaire fait par procuration générale peut-il constituer un don manuel?- Un transfert bancaire fait par procuration bancaire générale peut-il constituer un don manuel si le donataire est le détenteur de la procuration bancaire générale? - Un transfert bancaire fait par procuration bancaire générale peut-il constituer un don manuel si la preuve révèle l’autorisation spécifique et expresse du donateur? - Art. 776 du Code civil du Bas-Canada.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 5 avril 1989

Cour supérieure du Québec (Benoît j.c.s.)


Action du demandeur en annulation de donation accueillie en partie


 


Le 19 mars 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Beauregard [dissident], Gendreau et Fish jj.c.a.)


Appel accueilli


 


Le 21 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

25338SIDNEY M. OLAND  v.  KARL ADAMSONS, ANDRE BROSSARD, JOSEPH W. COURTRIGHT, A.F. D’ENTREMONT, NEVILLE GRANT, WILLIAM A. KENNETT, DONALD M. MACPHERSON, MARC LALONDE, MICHAEL WILSON, BARBARA J. MCDOUGALL, ELIZABETH ROSCOE, GERALD BOUEY AND BANK OF CANADA (Alta.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier 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

 

Procedural law - Limitation of actions - prescription - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Applicant’s claims for contribution and indemnity from the Respondents were barred by the Limitation of Actions Act, R.S.A. 1980, c. L-15 - Whether the Court of Appeal erred when it concluded that the Limitation of Actions Act prevented the Applicant from seeking contribution and indemnity from the Respondent - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to determine that the discovery or discoverability of facts relating to the commencement of any limitation period and the concealment of material facts are triable issues.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

May 25, 1995

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

Application to strike third party notices allowed

 

March 13, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Harradence, Kerans and Bracco JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

May 9, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25291L’ASSOCIATION QUÉBÉCOISE DES PHARMACIENS PROPRIÉTAIRES, JEAN-PAUL LALIBERTÉ, PIERRE BÉLANGER, FRANÇOIS TRAVERSY ET VIATEUR CRÊTE  c.  RÉGIE DE L’ASSURANCE-MALADIE DU QUÉBEC  et  LE PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                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 administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Services de santé et services sociaux - Enquête par échantillonnage - Qualification des pouvoirs conférés à la Régie de l’assurance-maladie aux termes de l’alinéa 2 de l’article 22.2 de la Loi sur l’assurance-maladie - L.R.Q., chap. A-29 - Application de la règle “audi alteram partem” et des règles de justice fondamentale - Remboursement de médicaments à des pharmaciens par la Régie de l’assurance-maladie - Réclamation par la Régie de sommes versées en trop tenant compte du prix réel d’acquisition - Nature de l’enquête et du processus décisionnel - La Régie exerce-t-elle des pouvoirs judiciaires ou quasi judiciaires? - A-t-elle respecté les règles de justice fondamentale?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 13 février 1992

Cour supérieure de Québec (Grenier J.C.S.)


Requête en révision judiciaire accueillie en partie


 


Le 4 mars 1996

Cour d’appel de Québec (Bisson, Deschamps et

Philippon [suppléant] JJ.C.A.)


Appel accueilli


 


Le 30 avril 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation déposée


 

 

 

24988TWIN GRAND DEVELOPMENTS LTD., CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE AND FRANK KAWULA and TWIN GRAND DEVELOPMENTS LTD. v. METROPOLITAN TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA  -AND-  FRANK KAWULA v. METROPOLITAN TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA (Sask.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Loans - Interest - Calculation of interest rate - Criminal Code , s. 347  - Interest Act , s. 6  - Mortgage clause providing for payment of certain fees and expenses to be made on demand, which fees and expenses have been determined by the trial judge to be interest pursuant to Section 347, does this violate the provisions of Section 347(1)(b) where such payments exceed the criminal rate of interest on date of payment?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 12, 1994

Court of Queen's Bench Saskatchewan (Wright J.)


Judgment for Respondent; counterclaim dismissed


 

September 14, 1995

Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan

(Bayda C.J.S., Sherstobitoff and Jackson JJ.A)


 

Appeal dismissed


 


November 9, 1995

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

25056ALBERT K.M. WONG v. SHELL CANADA LTD. (Alta.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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

 

Employment Standards legislation - Issue estoppel - Ability to pursue wrongful dismissal action following determination of Employment Standards officer and review.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 18, 1993

Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Master Alberstat)

 

December 15, 1993

Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Lomas J.)



Order dismissing Applicant's action

 

 

Order dismissing Applicant's appeal



 


October 24, 1995

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Hetherington and McFadyen JJ.A., MacLeod J.)


Appeal dismissed


 


December 21, 1995

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

25109CHARLES F. GILL v. SCOTIAMcLEOD INC. and WILLIAM WOOD  -AND-  IRVING R. GERSTEIN v. SCOTIAMcLEOD INC. and WILLIAM WOOD (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory and Major JJ.

 

                The applications for leave to appeal and to cross-appeal are dismissed with costs.

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Procedural law - Torts - Securities - Negligent misrepresentation - Personal liability of directors and officers of a corporation - Motion to strike out third party claim.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

August 23, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Farley J.)

Applicants’ motion to strike out the amended third party claim as against the directors and officers of the Corporation, granted

November 22, 1995

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Finlayson, Galligan and Doherty JJ.A.)

Appeal against Respondents Gill and Gerstein (as officers of the Corporation)allowed; appeal against directors of Corporation dismissed

 

January 22, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

 

February 15, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Applications for leave to appeal filed

 

 

Application for leave to cross-appeal filed

 

 

 

25111ERNST & YOUNG v. SCOTIAMcLEOD INC. and WILLIAM WOOD (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Torts - Securities - Negligent misrepresentation - Duty of care of auditors - Motion to strike out third party claim.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


August 18, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Farley J.)


Motion to determine a question of law and to strike out the amended third party claim as against the Applicant, granted


 


November 22, 1995

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Finlayson, Galligan, and Doherty JJ.A)


Appeal allowed


 


January 22, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25136NU-PHARM INC. v. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD. and SYNTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL LTD. and THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE (F.C.A.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Statutes - Interpretation - Do the Patent Regulations apply to composition or form only claims?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


June 28, 1995

Federal Court of Canada (Noël J.)


Injunction against Appellants


 


December 5, 1995

Federal Court of Appeal

(MacGuigan, Robertson and McDonald JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed with costs


 


February 5, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25102CAROLE L. BARRONS v. ONTARIO AUTOMOBILE DEALER ASSOCIATION, HYUNDAI AUTO CANADA INC. and KEN SIMARD SALES INC. o/a “ONTARIO HYUNDAI” (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory and Major JJ.

 

                The application for extension of time is dismissed with costs.

 

                La demande de prorogation de délai est rejetée avec dépens.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Constitutional - Division of Powers - Canadian Charter  - Procedural Law - Costs - Courts - Do appointments of Deputy Judges to Small Claims Court division of Ontario Court (General Division) violate Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms , Constitution Act, 1867 , or Constitution Act, 1982 ? - Is order to transfer an action to Small Claims Court final or interlocutory?- Do limitations on costs awarded to unrepresented litigants violate Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ? - Jurisdiction of Small Claims Court division of Ontario Court (General Division) to grant equitable relief. 

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

April 26, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division) (Lane J.)

Action transferred to Small Claims Court

 

July 11, 1995

Ontario Court (Divisional Court) (O’Leary J.)

 

March 6, 1995

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Houlden, Carthy, McKinlay JJ.A.)

Appeal quashed

 

 

 

Application for leave to appeal denied

 

January 25, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25067HARVARD INVESTMENTS LTD. v. THE CITY OF WINNIPEG (Man.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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

 

Municipal law - Expropriation - Whether a designation of a building as historical and subsequent refusal to delist the building constitutes a taking or expropriation of property rights that, at law, requires the designating authority to pay compensation.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


November 23, 1994

Court of Queen’s Bench in Manitoba (Hirschfield J.)


Applicant’s action dismissed


 


November 16, 1995

Court of Appeal for Manitoba

(Philp, Twaddle, and Kroft JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


January 2, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25137ELLEN LABELLE v. SHIRLEY O’CONNOR, BENCHER, THE LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA and PAUL LAMEK, TREASURER, THE LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory and Major JJ.

 

                The motion to adduce fresh evidence and the application for leave to appeal are dismissed with costs.

 

                La requête pour déposer de nouvelles preuves et la demande d'autorisation d'appel sont rejetées avec dépens.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Procedural Law - Appeal and Judicial Review - Appropriateness of an application for judicial review of a custody award granted by the District Court of Ontario - Judicial Review of a decision by the Law Society of Upper Canada not to grant compensation under s. 51 of the Law Society Act - Scope of discretion of a Complaints Review Commissioner of the Law Society of Upper Canada - Law Society Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L8, ss. 51, 62 - Rules of the Law Society, Rules 27, 37A, 46B.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

May 9, 1995

Ontario Court (Divisional Court)

(Southey, Bell and Feldman JJ.)

Application dismissed

 

February 1, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Goodman, McKinley and Carthy JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

February 5, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

25108MARGARET KABAN v. SIKHOR NATH SETT (Man.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Negligence - Professional negligence - Evidence - Admissibility of nurses’ notes and their use as evidence - Admissibility of business records when witness available to testify - Ares v. Venner, [1970] S.C.R. 608 - Expert evidence - Weight to be given to delusional evidence from emotionally upset plaintiff - Admissibility of expert evidence - Introducing new evidence at appellate level.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

December 7, 1993

Court of Queen’s Bench Manitoba (Beard J.)

Applicant’s claim dismissed

 

 

October 4, 1994

Court of Appeal of Manitoba

(Scott C.J.M. and Lyon and Kroft JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

March 30, 1995

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal dismissed

 

 November 28, 1995

Court of Appeal for Manitoba

(Scott, Lyon, and Kroft JJ.A.)

Motion to adduce new evidence dismissed

 

January 23, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

25238EMAD ELGUINDY v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

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

 

                The application for an extension of time and the application for leave to appeal are dismissed.

 

                La demande de prorogation de délai et la demande d'autorisation d'appel sont rejetées.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Sentencing - Probation - Obstruction of justice - Proper interpretation of an Order of the Court - Motion to stay probation order.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


September 22, 1993

Ontario Court (General Division) (Chapnik J.)

 

November 24, 1993

Ontario Court (General Division) (Chapnik J.)



 


Applicant convicted of willfully attempting to obstruct justice

 

 

Applicant sentenced to 18 months imprisonment  and probation for two years


October 31, 1994

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Grange, Abella and Laskin JJ.A.)

 

February 26, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

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


 


Appeal against conviction dismissed; application for leave to appeal against sentence granted; appeal against the sentence allowed

 

Application to set aside the Court’s Order, dismissed


March 1, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario (Laskin J.A.)

 

March 8, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


 


Motion to stay the Applicant’s probation order, dismissed

 

Application for leave to appeal and motion to extend time filed



 

 

 

25244ROBIN EDWARD DOUGLAS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Alta.)

 

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

 

                The application for an 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 - Procedure - Trial - Whether s. 651(2) of the Criminal Code  permits the defence to make its opening address to the jury after the Crown but prior to any Crown evidence being called - Evidence - Whether the trial judge’s charge to the jury on similar fact evidence was sufficient.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY


February 9, 1995

Court of Queens Bench of Alberta (Bensler J.)


Conviction: sexual touching (three counts),  sexual assault (four counts)


 


November 8, 1995

Court of Appeal for Alberta (Kerans, Conrad and O’Leary JJ.A)


Appeal dismissed


 


March 28, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25307PAUL ELLIS MILLAR v. LAURA ELAINE MILLAR (Alta.)

 

CORAM:               L'Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka 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

 

Family law - Divorce - Custody - Evidence - Inconclusive evidence of sexual abuse of three children of the marriage by mother - Custody awarded to mother at second trial - Applicant and paternal grandmother convinced that sexual abuse had occurred - Children living with mother for last four years - Whether Court of Appeal erred in upholding trial judge’s ruling that hearsay evidence of sexual abuse inadmissible - Whether Court of Appeal erred in upholding rulings of trial judge regarding testimony of witnesses.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

August 2, 1988

Court of Queen’s Bench (Quigley, J.)

 

 

Interim custody of children awarded to Respondent

 

August 22, 1990

Court of Queen’s Bench (Dixon, J.)

Divorce judgment rendered and custody of children awarded to Applicant

 

June 16, 1992

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Fraser, C.J.A., Kerans and Stratton, JJ.A.)

New trial ordered and interim custody order of Quigley, J. reinstated

January 21, 1993

Supreme Court of Canada

(La Forest, Sopinka and Cory, JJ.)

Application for leave to appeal direction for re-trial dismissed

 

February 11, 1994

Court of Queen’s Bench (Fraser, J.)

Custody of children awarded to Respondent at trial

 

March 5, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Heatherington, Conrad and Russell, JJ.A.)

Applicant’s appeal dismissed

 

May 3, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

SEPTEMBER 19, 1996 / LE 19 SEPTEMBRE 1996

 

25151SYNDICAT DES POSTIERS DU CANADA, FACTEURS ET GILLES MONGEON c. SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES POSTES ET RODRIGUE BLOUIN (Qué.)

 

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

 

                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 du travail - Relations de travail - Arbitrage - Convention collective - Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Caractère manifestement déraisonnable de la sentence arbitrale - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle erré en concluant que les deux sentences arbitrales du mis en cause Blouin étaient indissociables et manifestement déraisonnables? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en concluant que l’intimée a présenté le recours en révision judiciaire dans un délai raisonnable comme l’exige l’article 835.1 C.p.c.?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 5 avril 1991

Tribunal d’arbitrage (Blouin, arbitre)

Grief accueilli

 

Le 18 janvier 1992

Tribunal d’arbitrage (Blouin, arbitre)

Grief accueilli

 

Le 21 août 1992

Cour supérieure du Québec (Fréchette J.C.S.)

Requête en révision judiciaire de la sentence arbitrale rejetée

 

 

Le 21 décembre 1995

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Vallerand, Rothman, Nuss, JJ.C.A.)

Appel de la Société canadienne des postes accueilli; Appel incident du syndicat rejeté

 

 

Le 16 février 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

25202LA MÉTROPOLITAINE, COMPAGNIE D’ASSURANCE-VIE c. RAYNALD MEUNIER (Qué.)

 

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

 

                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 - Contrats - Interprétation - Police d’assurance-invalidité visant à assurer les revenus après impôt des dentistes en cas d’invalidité - Calcul de la prestation d’invalidité de l’intimé compte tenu du salaire versé à son épouse par suite du fractionnement du revenu de l’intimé à des fins fiscales - Les tribunaux d’instance inférieure ont-ils commis une erreur dans l’interprétation du contrat d’assurance compte tenu des faits de l’espèce? 

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 12 octobre 1994

Cour supérieure du Québec (Halperin J.C.S.)

Action de l’intimé accueillie

 

Le 17 janvier 1995

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Chouinard, Brossard et Nuss JJ.C.A.)

Appel rejeté

 

Le 15 mars 1995

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

25057FORDING COAL LIMITED v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (F.C.A.)(B.C.)

 

CORAM:              L'Heureux-Dubé, Sopinka 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

 

Taxation - Assessment - Whether a transaction can be reversed as being “artificial” or “undue” under the Income Tax Act, S.C. 1970-71-72, c. 63, s. 245(1) even if the transaction falls within the plain meaning of the Income Tax Act, S.C. 1970-71-72, c. 63, ss. 66.1(4) and 66.2(3), which provide tax deductions - Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in interpreting the Income Tax Act, S.C. 1970-71-72, c. 63, s. 245(1).

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


November 4, 1994

Tax Court of Canada (Rowe D.J.T.C.C.)


Applicant’s appeal of disallowance of deductions allowed.


 


January 22, 1996

Federal Court of Appeal

(Strayer, Decary and McDonald JJ.A.)


Respondent’s appeal allowed, deductions disallowed.


 


March 21, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed.


 

 

 

25278THE BRITISH COLUMBIA UTILITIES COMMISSION v. BRITISH COLUMBIA HYDRO & POWER AUTHORITY, BRITISH COLUMBIA ENERGY COALITION, CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (B.C. BRANCH) ET AL., COUNCIL OF FOREST INDUSTRIES ET AL., WEST KOOTENAY POWER LTD., B.C. GAS UTILITY LTD., ISCA MANAGEMENT LTD., AND RICK BERRY -and- CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (B.C. BRANCH), BRITISH COLUMBIA OLD AGE PENSIONERS’ ORGANIZATION, COUNCIL OF SENIOR CITIZENS’ ORGANIZATIONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, FEDERATED ANTI-POVERTY GROUPS OF B.C., SENIOR CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEST END SENIORS’ NETWORK (COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS “CAC(BC) ET AL”) v. BRITISH COLUMBIA HYDRO AND POWER AUTHORITY (B.C.)

 

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

 

                The applications for leave to appeal are dismissed with costs.

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative law - Jurisdiction - Judicial review - Standard of review - Utilities Commission Act,  S.B.C. 1980, c.60 - Jurisdiction of the British Columbia Utilities Commission to issue directions regarding Integrated Resource Plan and Guidelines.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

November 24, 1994

British Columbia Utilities Commission

 

B.C. Hydro’s rate increase denied;  Integrated Resource Plan and Action Plan to be filed; rate design changes to be implemented; ordered to comply with all other directions in the decision

 

October 17, 1995

British Columbia Utilities Commission

Application for reconsideration denied

 

 

February 23, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Goldie, Prowse and Newbury, JJ.A)

Declaration that the directions are unenforceable for being beyond the statutory powers of the Commission

 

April 19, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

SEPTEMBER 26, 1996 / LE 26 SEPTEMBRE 1996

 

25191/25302SERGE MONTPLAISIR  c.  SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Crim.)(Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                Les demandes d'autorisation d'appel sont rejetées.

 

                The applications for leave to appeal are dismissed.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit criminel -  Droit constitutionnel - Aptitude à subir un procès - Troubles mentaux - Déclaration d’inaptitude rendue après la condamnation et après le dépôt de l’avis d’appel - Requêtes en rejet d’appel accueillies -  Constitutionnalité de la Cour du Québec et de la Cour d’appel.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 19 octobre 1995

Cour du Québec (Chambre criminelle)

(Girouard j.c.Q.)


Verdict: Coupable de harcèlement criminel


 


Le 21 décembre 1995

Cour du Québec (Chambre criminelle)

(Girouard j.c.Q.)


Verdict:  Inapte à subir procès (Jugement de culpabilité rescindé et demandeur envoyé à l’Institut Philippe Pinel pour traitement)


 


Le 9 janvier 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Proulx, Otis et Biron (ad hoc) jj.c.a.)


Requête verbale du demandeur pour défaut de compétence de la Cour d’appel rejetée; Requête pour rejet d’appel de l’intimée accueillie


 


Le 25 janvier 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Proulx j.c.a.)


Requête pour permission d’appeler du demandeur du verdict d’inaptitude à subir son procès et de la décision du tribunal concernant l’ordonnance de placement accueillie


 


Le 13 février 1996

Commission québécoise d’examen


Décision:  Demandeur devenu apte et renvoi au tribunal


 


Le 5 mars 1996

Cour du Québec (Chambre criminelle et pénale)

(Vaillancourt j.c.Q.)


Remise au rôle en vertu de l’art. 672.48  C.cr .:  Demandeur jugé apte à subir son procès et dates de procès fixées

 

Requête verbale du demandeur pour défaut de compétence rejetée



 


Le 11 mars 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel à l’encontre du jugement du 9 janvier 1996 déposée (Dossier no 25191)


 


Le 11 avril 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Vallerand, Deschamps et Robert jj.c.a.)


Requête pour rejet d’appel déposée par l’intimée accueillie


 


Le 3 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel à l’encontre du jugement du 11 avril 1996 déposée (Dossier no 25302)


 

 

 

25295AIR CANADA  v.  THE MINISTER OF REVENUE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ONTARIO  AND BETWEEN  CANADIAN AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED  v.  THE MINISTER OF REVENUE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ONTARIO (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier 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

 

Constitutional law - Taxation - Statutes - Division of powers - Interpretation - Whether a tax imposed by the Gasoline Tax Act, R.S.O. 1990 c. G 5, as amended (the “Act”), upon the transfer of aviation fuel into the fuel tanks of an aircraft is “within the province” as required by section 92(2)  of the Constitution Act, 1867 , where: a) the transfer of possession and title of the fuel occur outside the province; b) the fuel has only a transitory physical presence within the province; and c) the fuel is consumed outside the province - Whether amendments to the Act imposed a retroactive tax on gasoline purchases made prior to their royal assent - Whether the definitions of “purchaser” and “delivery” under the Act are intra vires the Province of Ontario - How the “substantial presence” test adopted in Manitoba v. Air Canada, [1980] 2 S.C.R. 303, applies in the context of a transaction tax.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

March 21, 1995

Ontario Court (General Division) (Winkler J.)

Appeal dismissed and the notices of assessment under the Gasoline Tax Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. G.5., confirmed

 

March 8, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario (Morden A.C.J.O., Goodman and Weiler JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

May 3, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25289CIRCO CRAFT CO. INC.  c.  DIVCO LIMITED (Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges L'Heureux-Dubé  et Sopinka

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Code civil ‑ Droit commercial ‑ Créancier et débiteur ‑ Intérêts ‑ Action pour le solde du prix du contrat - Article 4  de la Loi sur l’intérêt , L.R.C. (1985), chap I-15  - Article 1078.1 C.c.B.-C. - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur en accordant à l’intimée l'indemnité additionnelle prévue à l'art. 1078.1 C.c.B.-C.?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 19 juin 1989

Cour supérieure du Québec (Meyer, J.C.S.)


Action sur compte de l’intimée accueillie en partie;  Demande reconventionnelle de la demanderesse accueillie en partie


 


Le 27 février 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Chouinard, Tourigny et Deschamps, JJ.C.A.)


Appel de la demanderesse accueilli aux seules fins de remplacer l’intérêt composé par l’intérêt simple et de faire rétroagir l’indemnité additionnelle de 1078.1 C.c.B.-C. au 1er avril 1983


 


Le 26 avril 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

25266TO HANG DAM  c.  GILLES A. DAOUST (Qué.)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Procédures - Procédure civile - Action sur compte de l’intimé accueillie et demande reconventionnelle de la demanderesse rejetée en Cour supérieure - Appel de la demanderesse - Requête de l’intimé en rejet d’appel fondée sur le paragraphe 501(5) du Code de procédure civile accueillie en Cour d’appel - Appel de la demanderesse rejetée - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur en accueillant la requête de l’intimé en rejet d’appel fondée sur le paragraphe 501(5) du Code de procédure civile et en rejetant l’appel de la demanderesse? 

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 24 juillet 1995

Cour supérieure du Québec (Rousseau J.C.S.)


Action sur compte de l’intimée accueillie; Demande reconventionnelle de la demanderesse rejetée


 


Le 9 février 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Proulx, Otis et Nuss, JJ.C.A.)


Requête de l’intimé en rejet d’appel accueillie; Appel rejeté


 


Le 10 avril 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

25324SOCIÉTÉ DE GESTION DU BIEF (MONTRÉAL) 1991, SOCIÉTÉ EN COMMANDITE ET 143344 CANADA INC., COMMANDITÉE  c.  JEAN FORTIN & ASSOCIÉS SYNDICS INC.  ET  LE BIEF DES SEIGNEURS INC. (Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                La demande d'autorisation d'appel est rejetée.

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit des biens - Droit fiscal - Faillite - Biens du failli - Acceptation par le syndic de l’offre d’achat des demanderesses du patrimoine de la débitrice faillie - Taxe de vente fédérale - Remboursement - Le remboursement de la taxe de vente fédérale pour habitation neuve est-il la propriété des demanderesses? - L’article 67 de la Loi sur la faillite, L.R.C. (1985), ch. B-3 , constitue-t-il une dérogation expresse à l’article 67  de la Loi sur la gestion des finances publiques , L.R.C. (1985), ch. F-11 ? - Les demanderesses ont-elles acquis valablement les sommes d’argent représentant le remboursement susmentionné concurremment avec le patrimoine de la débitrice faillie? - Marzetti c. Marzetti, [1994] 2 R.C.S. 765.

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 13 mars 1992

Cour supérieure du Québec (en matière de faillite)

(Gomery j.c.s.)


Requête des demanderesses aux fins de se faire déclarer propriétaires d’un bien accueillie


 


Le 19 mars 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

(Chouinard, Gendreau et Proulx jj.c.a.)


Appel accueilli


 


Le 17 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

25347DOUGLAS HEAMAN  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci JJ.

 

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

 

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

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Directed verdict - Sufficiency of evidence.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

January 13, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division) (Browne J.)

Conviction: Break, enter and sexual assault

 

February 23, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Robins, McKinlay and Osborne JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

May 31, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25336TERMINAUX PORTUAIRES DU QUÉBEC INC.  c.  ASSOCIATION DES EMPLOYEURS MARITIMES  -ET-  PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU CANADA ET CONSEIL CANADIEN DES RELATIONS DU TRAVAIL (C.A.F.)(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 du travail - Relations de travail - Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - Législation - Interprétation - Article 34  du Code canadien du travail , L.R.C. (1985), chap. L-2  - Pouvoir du représentant patronal - La Cour d’appel fédérale a-t-elle commis une erreur en confirmant la décision du Conseil de reconnaître à l’Association des employeurs maritimes, à titre de représentant patronal désigné par le Conseil aux termes du paragraphe 34(4)  du Code canadien du travail , le pouvoir de déterminer et de réclamer aux employeurs visés par l’accréditation géographique une participation financière aux coûts engendrés par l’exercice de ses fonctions de représentant patronal?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 1er juin 1995

Conseil canadien des relations du travail (Doyon, vice-présidente, Bastien et  Cadieux, membres)

Demande de l’AEM fondée sur le par. 34(7)  du Code canadien du travail , L.R.C. (1985), chap. L-2 , accueillie

 

Le 22 mars 1996

Cour d’appel fédérale

(Pratte, Hugessen et Décary JJ.C.A.)

Demande de contrôle judiciaire rejetée

 

Le 17 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

25337TERMINAUX PORTUAIRES DU QUÉBEC INC.  c.  ASSOCIATION DES EMPLOYEURS MARITIMES  -ET-  PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU CANADA ET CONSEIL CANADIEN DES RELATIONS DU TRAVAIL (C.A.F.)(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 du travail - Relations de travail - Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - Législation - Interprétation - Article 34  du Code canadien du travail , L.R.C. (1985), chap. L-2  - Pouvoir de l’Association des employeurs maritimes, à titre de représentant patronal, d’établir et de réclamer une cotisations pour les frais inhérents aux services fournis aux employeurs du port de Trois-Rivières\Bécancour.- Ordonnance du Conseil canadien des relations du travail imposant à la demanderesse de payer la cotisation établie et réclamée par l’intimée - Compétence du Conseil canadien des relations du travail en matière de réparation - La Cour d’appel fédérale a-t-elle erré en droit en concluant que le Conseil n’a pas violé la règle audi alteram partem lorsqu’il a condamné la demanderesse au paiement d’une somme précise de deniers sans lui permettre d’être entendue sur le bien-fondé du montant réclamé et sur le détail des dépenses ayant servi à son établissement?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 23 novembre 1995

Conseil canadien des relations du travail (Doyon, vice-présidente, Bastien et FitzGerald, membres)

 

Demande de l’intimée pour que soit déposée l’ordonnance du C.C.R.T. accueillie

  

Le 22 mars 1996

Cour d’appel fédérale

(Pratte, Hugessen et Décary, JJ.C.A.)

Demande de contrôle judiciaire rejetée

 

Le 17 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

25363NOREEN AYER AND BARBARA RUFINA MCCULLOUGH -AND- DANIEL P. MCCULLOUGH  v.  SUZANNE SHANNON AND ERNEST JOHN MCCULLOUGH, EXECUTORS NAMED IN THE WILL OF THE DECEASED, DOROTHEA MCCULLOUGH -AND- DANIEL HOWARD SHANNON AND STEPHEN MICHAEL SHANNON -AND- SUZANNE SHANNON, BERNARD SMYTH, JR., DOROTHEA SMYTH, MICHAEL SMYTH, JOHN SMYTH, ERNEST JOHN MCCULLOUGH AND DANIEL P. MCCULLOUGH (Alta.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier 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

 

Procedural law - Trial - Property law - Wills - Trial by judge and jury - Reasonable apprehension of bias - Whether the Applicants have a right to a trial by judge and jury on a testamentary matter - Whether the fact that one witness is a judge creates a risk of bias or partiality in the event of a trial by judge.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


February 13, 1996

Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta

(Wachowich A.C.J.C.Q.B.)


Application for trial by judge and jury dismissed


 


April 12, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Lieberman, Russell and Picard JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


June 6, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25420JOSEPH REED  v.  HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(B.C.)

 

CORAM:               The Chief Justice and Gonthier and Iacobucci 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 - Freedom of religion - Probation - Whether probation order prohibiting Applicant from parading placards in front of places of worship  violates his freedom of religion.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

March 3, 1994

Provincial Court of British Columbia (Rounthwaite J.)

Conviction : Four counts of violation of a probation order

 

May 26, 1995

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Leggatt J.)

Summary conviction appeal dismissed

 

May 9, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Hinkson J.A., in Chambers)

Application for leave to appeal dismissed

 

July 2, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25325TIOXIDE CANADA INC.  c.  SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (C.A.F.)(Qué.)

 

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges Gonthier et Iacobucci

 

                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 - Crédits d’impôt pour la recherche scientifique et le développement expérimental - Le montant que la demanderesse est réputée avoir payé au ministre du Revenu du Québec en vertu de l’article 1029.7 de la Loi sur les impôts, L.R.Q. c. I-3, doit-il être inclus dans le calcul de son revenue en vertu de l’alinéa 12(1)x) de la Loi de l’impôt sur le revenu, S.C. 1970-71-72, c. 63? - Le montant que la demanderesse est réputée avoir payé au ministre du Revenu du Québec en vertu de l’article 1029.7 de la Loi sur les impôts est-il visé par l’alinéa 127(11.1)c) de la Loi?

 

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 

Le 27 juillet 1993

Cour canadienne de l’impôt (Garon j.c.c.i.)

Cotisations du Ministre du Revenu national  déclarées bien fondées.

 

Le 20 mars 1996

Cour d’appel fédérale

(Pratte, Hugessen et Décary jj.c.a.)

Appel rejeté

 

Le 17 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada

Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée

 

 

 

25329GERSHON STERN ET ZALMAN STERN  c.  CITÉ DE CÔTE ST-LUC (Qué.)

 

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

 

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

 

                The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

 

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

 

Droit municipal - Droit fiscal - Taxe d’affaires - Procédure - Recours - Délai raisonnable - Actions en nullité de règlements municipaux imposant une taxe d’affaires intentées en vertu de l’art. 33 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. C-25 - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en substituant sa propre discrétion à celle exercée par le premier juge quant au caractère raisonnable du délai dans lequel les demandeurs ont exercé leur recours en nullité du règlement 446? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en assujettissant à la règle du délai raisonnable le recours des demandeurs en nullité des règlements  1726, 1764, 1794 et 1820 alors que celui-ci soulevait une question d’absence de compétence de Ville intimée? - Subsidiairement, la Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en déclarant ce dernier recours tardif sans tenir compte des circonstances de la cause? - La Cour supérieure a-t-elle erré en jugeant que le règlement 446 avait été précédé de l’avis de motion exigé par la loi? - La Cour supérieure a-t-elle erré en déclarant que les règlements 1726, 1764, 1794 et 1820 étaient intra vires alors que la taxe d’affaires imposée par la Ville ne visait pas tous les types d’activités énumérées dans la disposition habilitante, soit l’art. 232 de la Loi sur la fiscalité municipale, L.R.Q. 1977, ch. F-2.1?

 

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

 


Le 18 avril 1990

Cour supérieure du Québec (Mercure j.c.s.)


Actions de l’intimée en recouvrement de taxes  d’affaires impayées accueillies; actions des demandeurs en nullité de règlements rejetées


 


Le 21 mars 1996

Cour d’appel du Québec

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


Pourvois rejetés


 


Le 21 mai 1996

Cour suprême du Canada


Demande d’autorisation d’appel déposée


 

 

 

25144SHARON McDONALD v. INTERLAKE SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 21 (Man.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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

 

Statutes - Interpretation - Whether the Court of Appeal correctly interpreted the term “program” in the Public Schools Act, R.S.M. 1987, c.P250 - Whether the Respondent school board had fulfilled its statutory obligations under the Public Schools Act, R.S.M. 1987, c. P250.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


September 25, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench, Manitoba

(Simonsen J.)


Application for order of mandamus requiring the Respondent to provide Grade 7 French Immersion in Stonewall, Manitoba dismissed



 

January 10, 1996

Court of Appeal for Manitoba

(Huband, Helper and Monnin JJ.A.)


Application dismissed


 

February 9, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


 

Application for leave to appeal filed



 

 

25149THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF WINDSOR and THE REGIONAL ASSESSMENT COMMISSIONER, REGION NO. 27 v. THE DETROIT AND WINDSOR SUBWAY CO. (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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

 

Municipal law - Taxation - Assessment - Statutes - Interpretation - Valuation of part of a tunnel - Effect of an option to purchase part of the tunnel for one dollar on the determination of its value under the Assessment Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 31. 

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

August 29, 1989

Supreme Court of Ontario (Arbour J.)

 

August 8, 1990

Ontario Divisional Court

(Grange, Griffiths and Catzmann JJ.)

 

December 18, 1995

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Dubin C.J.O., Krever and Galligan  JJ.A)

 

February 14, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application allowed; cross-application dismissed

 

 

Appeals allowed

 

 

 

Appeals dismissed

 

 

 

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25298STANLEY R. DUVAL v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Right to counsel - That the Court of Appeal for Ontario erred in law in holding that, notwithstanding the violation of the Applicant’s s. 10(b) rights, there was evidence he would not have acted differently.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


September 4, 1991

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


Conviction: driving “over 80”


 


January 30, 1992

Ontario Court (General Division) (Sheppard J.)


Summary conviction appeal dismissed


 


March 7, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Robins, Weiler and Laskin JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


May 3, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25188INSURANCE CORPORATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA v. ANITA CHAN (B.C.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Insurance - Injuries to a passenger in a motor vehicle - Passenger struck when a brick was thrown from a passing, unidentified vehicle through the windshield of the motor vehicle in which she was riding - Whether insurer liable for injuries - Whether there had been an intervening tort relieving insurance company of liability - Insurance (Motor Vehicle) Act, R.S.B.C. 1979, c. 204.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 13, 1994

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Warren J.)


Respondent’s action allowed


January 9, 1996

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Cumming, Wood and Finch JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


March 7, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

25178GARY D. HAYES v. GRAHAM E. WADSWORTH and KATHERINE SIEWIERTOKA also known as KATHERINE NIKIFORUK (Alta.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory and Major JJ.

 

                The motion to adduce fresh evidence and the application for leave to appeal are dismissed with costs.

 

                La requête pour déposer de nouvelles preuves et la demande d'autorisation d'appel sont rejetées avec dépens.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Torts - Statutes - Labour law - Workers compensation - Vicarious liability - Interpretation - Motor vehicles - Negligence - Whether the Workers’ Compensation Act, S.A. 1981, c. W-16 bars the vicarious liability of an automobile owner for the driver’s negligence, where that Act bars a suit against the driver.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


January 11, 1994

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


Action against Applicant dismissed


 


January 16, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Côté, McFadyen and Hunt JJ.A.)


Respondents’ appeal allowed


 


March 5, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada



 


Application for leave to appeal filed



 

 

 

25186KERRIGAN VENTURES CORP. v. REYNOLDS, MIRTH, RICHARDS & FARMER, DORIS BONORA and MANOR MANAGEMENT LTD. (Alta.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Whether lower courts erred in denying application to cross-examine.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

June 1, 1994

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

Application to cross-examine and contempt application dismissed

 

January 9, 1996

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Kerans, Belzil and Hetherington JJ.A)

Appeal dismissed

 

March 7, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25197RICHARD HOUSLEY v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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 - Impaired driving - Whether the Applicant’s right to counsel and right to remain silent were infringed by the police officer asking how much he had had to drink.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


February 4, 1994

Ontario Court (Provincial Division) (Khawly J.)


Acquittal: impaired driving, “over 80"


 


January 13, 1995

Ontario Court (General Division) (German J.)



 


Summary conviction appeal dismissed


February 5, 1995

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Griffiths, Doherty and Weiler JJ.A.)


 


Appeal allowed


April 9, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


 


Application for leave to appeal filed



 

 

 

25199LARRY ROSEN and SAV-ON DRUGS LTD. v. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ONTARIO (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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  - Statutes - Interpretation - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the sale of tobacco products is not an expressive activity and therefore guaranteed under section 2(b)  of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Tobacco Contol Act, 1994, S.O. 1994, c. 10  prohibition on the sale of tobacco products in premises where pharmacies are located, does not force pharmacists to conform to a government sponsored message and constitute compelled expression.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 

February 20, 1995

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Boland J.)

Application for a declaration that paragraphs 4(2) 8 and 9 of  the Tobacco Control Act 1994, S.O. 1994, c.10 are unconstitutional, dismissed

 

January 17, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Finlayson, Doherty and Austin JJ .A.)

Appeal dismissed

 

March 15, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

 

 

 

25205MIRAMICHI PULP & PAPER INC. (a body corporate) v. DIRECTOR OF ASSESSMENT (N.B.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory 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

 

Municipal law - Assessment - Classifying machinery as “real property” - Did the Court of Appeal err in failing to apply the primary purpose test to determine whether the electrical components, whose sole or primary purpose was to drive the processing equipment, were “real property” for the purposes of the Assessment Act?

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


February 14, 1995

Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick

(Riordon J.)


Applicant’s appeal from the Appeals Tribunal  allowed; declaration that the subject electrical distribution system was not real property


 


January 18, 1996

Court of Appeal for New Brunswick

(Chief Justice, Turnbull and Bastarache JJ.A.)


Respondent’s appeal allowed


 


March 18, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25300LUIGI GINO PASCALE v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Alta.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory and Major JJ.

 

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

 

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

 

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Criminal law - Sexual assault - Credibility - Whether trial judge employed “reverse gender-related stereotypical thinking” in assessing credibility of complainant and Applicant - Judicial notice - Whether trial judge wrongly took judicial notice of the life of an abused woman.

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


December 15, 1994

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


Conviction: sexual assault


 


September 18, 1995

Court of Appeal of Alberta

(Kerans, Bracco and Conrad JJ.A.)


Appeal dismissed


 


May 3, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 

 

25282EDWARD POKONZIE v. ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (Ont.)

 

CORAM:               La Forest, Cory and Major JJ.

 

                The application for extension of time is dismissed with costs.

 

                La demande de prorogation de délai est rejetée avec dépens.

 

NATURE OF THE CASE

 

Administrative law - Judicial review - Ontario Human Rights Commission - Exercise of discretion to not deal with the complaint - Ontario Human Rights Code, s. 34(1)(a).

 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

 


October 29, 1993

Ontario Human Rights Commission


Exercise of discretion not to deal with the complaint pursuant to s. 34(1)(a) of the Code


 


October 6, 1995

Divisional Court of Ontario

(McCrear, Pardu and Dunnet JJ.)


Application for judicial review dismissed


 


January 29, 1996

Court of Appeal for Ontario

(Catzman, Laskin and Charron JJ.A.)


Application dismissed


 


April 4, 1996

Supreme Court of Canada


Application for leave to appeal filed


 

 


MOTIONS

REQUÊTES

 

 

23.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: CORY J.

 


Motion to extend the time in which to file the notice of appeal

 

Dana Marie Finn

 

   v. (25292)

 

Her Majesty The Queen (Nfld.)


Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour déposer un avis d’appel

 


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE   Time extended to April 10, 1996.

 

 

 

 

23.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: CORY J.

 


Motion to extend the time in which to apply for leave to appeal

 

Her Majesty The Queen

 

   v. (25352)

 

Robert Wilson (Ont.)


Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour obtenir l'autorisation d'appel

 


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE   Time extended to September 6, 1996.

 

 

 

 

23.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: CORY J.

 


Motion to strike out passages from the factum

 

Andrew Sim Katz

 

   v. (25014)

 

Vancouver Stock Exchange et al. (B.C.)


Requête en radiation de passages du mémoire

 


 

DISMISSED / REJETÉE

 

Order will go that the applicant may file a reply to the factum of the Securities Commission.  The reply is to be no longer than 8 pages.

 

Paragraphs 22 and 23 of the Securities Commission will not be struck out.

 

This appeal will be heard on the 3rd of October 1996.  It is too late to file additional evidence.  The letter from Mr. M. Quil of Pacific International Securities will therefore not be filed unless the consent of all parties is obtained to its introduction.

 

Costs of this application will be in the cause.

 

 

 

23.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: THE REGISTRAR

 


Motion  for acceptance of factum on appeal over 40 pages

 

Her Majesty The Queen

 

   v. (24831)

 

Shawn Carl Campbell et al. (Alta.)


Requête en acceptation d'un mémoire d'appel de plus de 40 pages

 

With the consent of the parties.


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE

 

 

 

23.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: THE REGISTRAR

 


Motion to extend the time in which to serve and file  the appellant’s factum

 

Her Majesty The Queen

 

   v. (24831)

 

Shawn Carl Campbell et al. (Alta.)


Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour signifier et déposer le mémoire de l’appelante

 

With the consent of the parties.


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE   Time extended to August 14, 1996.

 

 

 

26.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: THE DEPUTY REGISTRAR

 


Motion to extend the time in which to file an appellant’s factum

 

British Columbia Rugby Union et al.

 

    v. (24743)

 

Mark Hamstra (B.C.)


Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour déposer le mémoire d’une appelante

 

With the consent of the parties.


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE   Time extended to September 30, 1996.

 

 

 

28.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: THE DEPUTY REGISTRAR

 


Motion to extend the time in which to file the case on appeal

 

U.S.A.

 

   v. (24997)

 

Arye Dynard (Ont.)


Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour déposer le dossier d’appel

 

With the consent of the parties.


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE   Time extended to August 26, 1996.

 

 

 

28.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: THE DEPUTY REGISTRAR

 


Motion to dispense with printing

 

Delgamuukw et al.

 

   v. (23799)

 

Her Majesty The Queen (B.C.)


Requête en dispense d'impression

 

With the consent of the parties.


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE

 

The case on appeal shall consist of the following:

 

1) Electronic copy of the transcripts of evidence at trial;

 

2) 24 copies of a book of pleadings and orders;

 

3) 24 copies of [1991] 3 WWR which contains the Trial Court;

 

4) 24 copies of [1993] 5 WWR which contains the Court of Appeal; and

 

5) Reference book to be filed by each party consisting of relevant pages of the transcript and exhibits.

 

 

 

29.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: LE REGISTRAIRE ADJOINT

 


Motion to extend the time in which to file the respondent’s factum

 

Sa Majesté La Reine

 

    c. (25162)

 

Joseph Haroun (Qué.)


Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour déposer le mémoire de l’intimé

 


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE    Délai prorogé au 15 novembre 1996.

 

 

 

29.8.1996

 

Before / Devant: CORY J.

 


Motion to extend the time in which to file a notice of appeal

 

Jeffrey Rose

 

   v. (25448)

 

Her Majesty The Queen (Ont.)


Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour déposer un avis d’appel

 

With the consent of the parties.


 

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE   Time extended to 30 days after the judgment of the leave application.

 

 

 

3.9.1996

 

Before / Devant: CORY J.

 


Motion to extend the time for leave to intervene and for leave to intervene

 

BY/PAR:A.G. of Québec