Ontario Court of Appeal Rejects Ontario Jurisdiction over Foreign Defendants Where No “Actual” Presence in the Province

In its seminal decision in Club Resorts Ltd. v. Van Breda, 2012 SCC 17 (CanLII) the Supreme Court of Canada set out four factors, which if established, lead to a presumption that…

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“Discoverability” Principle may Extend 2 year Limitation Period to Enforce Italian Judgment in Ontario: Sicilian Maceri Services v. OGO Fibers Inc., 2018 ONSC 1342 (CanLII)

Until the Court of Appeal for Ontario released it’s recent decision inIndependence Plaza 1 Associates, L.L.C. v. Figliolini 2017 ONCA 44 (CanLII), the limitation period applicable to actions to enforce foreign…

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Ontario Law Applies to Aircraft Crash in New York State, Court of Appeal for Ontario in Thorne v Hudson Estate 2107 ONCA 208

In this recent case, the Court of Appeal for Ontario Applied the lex loci delicti principle as set down in the seminal Supreme Court of Canada Case of Tolofson v. Jensen [1994] 3 S.C.R.…

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