Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.
Family Matters
Hum v. Skoll (2020 ONSC 275)
offers to settle — costs — litigation — bad faith — behavior
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa
Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa v. M.G. (2020 ONSC 79)
children — parents — care — access visits — girls
Justice C. Aitken
Nixon v. Lumsden (2020 ONSC 147)
income — property — value — marriage — matrimonial home
Justice J. Audet
Dostie v. Poapst (2020 ONSC 139)
father — contempt — child — motion — access
Justice J. Audet
Cohen v. Cohen (2020 ONSC 88)
questioning — three-part test — evidence — recording — written interrogatories
Justice S. Corthorn
Frank v. Campbell (2020 ONSC 364)
child care expenses — income — child support — draft — seeks
Justice P. MacEachern
Civil Matters
CUPW v. B’nai Brith Canada et. al (2020 ONSC 323)
nai — defamation — antisemitic — public interest — defences
Justice C. MacLeod
Salewski v. Scott (2020 ONSC 195)
actions — costs — caps — offers — lawsuits
Justice S. Gomery
Casterton v. MacIsaac (2020 ONSC 190)
collision — puck — game — skated — hockey
Justice S. Gomery
Przybytek v. 3002071 Canada Inc. AND 3002071 Canada Inc. v. Przybytek (2020 ONSC 116)
costs — endorsement — coordinator — request — assistant
Justice H. Williams
Leroux et al. c. Souligny et al. (2020 ONSC 272)
règle — véracité — aveux — authenticité — request to admit
Juge M. O’Bonsawin
OZ Merchandising Inc. v. Canadian Professional Soccer League (2020 ONSC 119)
motion — jury — partial indemnity costs — offer to settle — severally liable
Justice R. Ryan Bell
Skafco Limited v. Abdalla (2020 ONSC 136)
festival — damages — summary — defences — defamation actions
Justice C. MacLeod
Kargakos v. The Estate of George Kargakos et al. and (2020 ONSC 122)
estate’s lawyer — partial indemnity — costs of the motion — property — fees
Justice H. Williams
Deng v 9249419 Canada Inc. (2020 CanLII 2111)
cabinets — solid wood — kitchen — formaldehyde — plywood
Deputy Judge R. Conway
Criminal Matters
R. v. Reginald Louis Jean (2019 ONSC 7343)
offender — human trafficking — victim — sentence — grossly disproportionate
Justice R. Smith
R. v. Faucher (2020 ONSC 155)
one-year sentence — plea — guilty — judicial pre-trial — pleas
Justice C. Aitken
R. v. Sealy-Ward (2020 ONSC 55)
imprisonment to be served concurrently — sentence him to a period — pre-sentence custody — prohibited firearm — bag
Justice M. O’Bonsawin
Divisional Court Decisions of Local Interest
Carola v. Simpson (2020 ONSC 183)
retainer — reversible error — costs — damages — disbursements
Justice S. Gomery
Court of Appeal Decisions of Local Interest
R. v. Mohammed (2020 ONCA 9)
breaches — strip search — cellphone — gun — firearm
Justices D. Brown, G. Huscroft, and G. Trotter