Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 15, 2024.

After a delay of more than a year, an Act on Preventive Restructuring (the "Act") implementing the EU directive on preventive restructuring frameworks finally became effective in the Czech Republic on 23 September 2023. The long-awaited Act introduced a brand-new legal tool enabling viable enterprises in temporary financial distress to achieve restructuring outside insolvency proceedings. It is a voluntary and flexible process requiring cooperation with creditors, but not necessarily with all of them.

Who can use it?

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of January 15, 2024.

Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of December 18, 2023.

After a delay of more than a year, an act on preventive restructuring (the "Act") implementing the EU directive on preventive restructuring frameworks finally became effective in the Czech Republic on 23 September 2023. The long-awaited Act introduces a brand-new legal tool preventing the insolvency of viable enterprises in temporary financial distress.

What is preventive restructuring and why use it?

Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 4, 2023.

In AssessNet Inc. v. Ferro Estate, the Court set aside an order dismissing the action, finding that the summary judgment motion judge had erred in determining the issue of discoverability of a claim against a trustee in bankruptcy.

Torgersrud v Lightstone is a family law decision where the Court dismissed an appeal from an order setting aside a marriage contract entered into in Quebec in 1988.

Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 28, 2023.

I hope everyone is enjoying the last long weekend of the summer.

Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General) is a 125-page decision dealing with the claim of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation to submerged lands in Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. The claim was mostly unsuccessful.

Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 17, 2023.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 22, 2023.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of April 24, 2023.