E-laws Gets a New Look

Posted on by Brenda Lauritzen

Perhaps long overdue, the E-laws Ontario website for provincial legislation has revamped its user interface in favour of a more modern and accessible look and feel. Fortunately, the new interface is much cleaner and easier to navigate; unfortunately, not all of the valuable content made the transfer.

So what’s new for you? You can now Browse or Search current or source law conveniently by selecting the tab on the left-hand sidebar. An advanced search is now available, through which you can use boolean operators (AND/OR, etc.). A full explanation of the advanced search operators can be found here. Point-in-time legislation is also available back to January 2, 2004, and previous versions are now linked on the statute/regulation pages themselves.

The Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers has moved, and is accessible from the ‘Legislative Tables’ link on the homepage. Unfortunate casualties of the migration were the Detailed Legislative History tables, which provided legislative history information for each statute by provision number and which are no longer available. As these tables were the primary reason I used e-Laws previously, for now there will be little motivation for me to use the new site over CanLII, which houses much of the same content.

Speaking of which, the CanLII site administrators have also notified its users that there will be a slight delay in updating the site with Ontario law, as they work to interface with the new e-Laws. No document versions will be missed and they are working to resolve the issue.

As always, if you have any difficulty or have any questions, let us know!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Charbonneau v Charbonneau (2015 ONSC 2181)
spousal support — expenses — pay — will file a two-page — post-secondary education
Justice A. Doyle

Mowers v Acland (2015 ONSC 2171)
joint retainer — offers — motion — terms — costs
Justice J. Mackinnon

Lemieux c Lemieux (2015 ONCS 2259)
justiciables — gain — question des dépens — radiés — aliments
Juge R. Laliberté

Vallier v Meester (2015 ONSC 2312)
house account — work — barn — unjust enrichment — proceeds
Justice J. Mackinnon

Shouldice v Shouldice (2015 ONSC 2340)
purchase — offer — property — motion — affidavit
Justice J. Mackinnon

Civil Matters

Levac c. La corporation du village de Casselman (2015 ONCS 2273)
public interest litigant — altruism — symboliques — municipalité — patriotism
Juge R. Beaudoin

Dolan v Ccoc (2015 ONSC 2145)
eviction — landlord — abatement — pleading — corporation
Master C. MacLeod

Criminal Matters

R. v Blonde (2015 ONSC 2113)
fingerprinting — summonses — operational readiness — travel — offence
Justice P. Smith

R. v Liboiron (2015 ONSC 1706)
civilian witnesses — woman — driving — door — beyond a reasonable doubt
Justice R. Maranger

Divisional Court Decisions from Ottawa Judges

Homewood Development Inc. v 2010999 Ontario Inc. (2015 ONSC 2103)
palpable — changes — overriding error — plans — contract
Justice S. Lederman, C. Hackland and D. Corbett

Systemgroup Consulting Inc. v Mcconaghie (2015 ONSC 2213)
monetary compensation — wages — infringed — employment — aka
Justices K. Swinton, H. Sachs and M. Labrosse

From Your Library: Searching Ontario Hansard Debates Online

Posted on by Brenda Lauritzen

If you need to discern the intent behind a particular piece of legislation, there’s (arguably) no better place than from the discussion of those who brought it into being. Fortunately, the record of the debates of parliament, the Hansard Debates, are becoming increasingly available online.

Provincial (Ontario)

Provincial Hansard records are available from the Legislative Assembly’s website, with scattered coverage back to 1979. PDF files of the most recent parliamentary debates are also available on the Legislative Assembly’s site in addition to the plain text. If you know the date on which a certain bill was discussed, you can simply browse to that date from the link above.

Most of the time, however, you will probably not know the exact date that the bill was discussed. In this case, you can browse to the Bill itself by clicking on Bills and Lawmaking -> Past & Present, and then select the parliamentary year from the dropdown menu. Once you have located the Bill, you can click on the “Debates” tab, as seen in the example below.

ONHansard

This will bring up a list of the dates that the Bill was discussed in parliament, and by clicking on the blue dates, will link you directly to the Hansard records. If a link is not available online, it will at least tell you the date, which you can then use to look it up in the print version at a library.

The majority of commentary occurs during the second reading of a bill. If it is deferred to a committee, the committee reports will also be linked from this screen.

You can also search the Hansard debates here, although your mileage may vary using this search tool.

We don’t hold the print copies of the Hansard here at the CCLA Library, but they are available from the University of Ottawa Law Library and the Supreme Court Library. As always, if you have difficulty finding what you need you can contact us at library@ccla-abcc.ca and we will do our best to point you in the right direction!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Shouldice v. Shouldice (2015 ONSC 1948)
equalization payment — property — partition — matrimonial home — mortgage registered against the jointly-owned
Justice J. Mackinnon

Laframboise v. Laframboise (2015 ONSC 1752)
children — income — marriage — place of a parent — general ledgers
Justice J. Mackinnon

Gaffney v. Hyatt (2015 ONSC 1856)
uncontested — costs — child — post-separation child-care — relationship
Justice R. Leroy

Andre v. Van Gentevoort (2015 ONSC 1753)
income — child support — expenses — calendar — summer
Justice R. Beaudoin

Pey v. Pey (2015 ONSC 1727)
children — father — change — school — evening
Justice J. Mackinnon

Civil Matters

Ahdieh v. Farrokhzadi (2015 ONSC 1941)
indemnity costs — offer — expended — motion — non-conveniens
Justice C. Hackland

Merpaw v. Hyde (2015 ONSC 1795)
refusals — split — contested — motion — outcomes
Justice R. Leroy

Carleton Condominium Corporation No. 396 v. Burdet (2015 ONSC 1361)
unit owners — condominium — indemnity scale — costs — fees
Justice P. Kane

Criminal Matters

R. v. Conquer (2015 ONCJ 153)
realistic risk — motor vehicle — drive — inebriated — seat
Justice D. Paciocco

R. v. Seguin (2015 ONSC 1908)
laptop — seizure — search — hard drive
Justice J. Parfett

From Your Library: Quicklaw Practice Pages

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

A subscription to Quicklaw is another excellent research tool provided via the LSUC to every courthouse library. There are loads of great features within Quicklaw, but one that is commonly overlooked (unfortunately!) is the Practice Area section. Here’s where it is on the home screen:

Practice

We have four practice areas available to library clients – CriminalPractice, EmploymentPractice, FamilyPractice, and LitigationPractice. If you pop over to one of those areas when you first load up Quicklaw, you’ll have an easy to scan and use list of secondary sources that are available for you to search, read through, print, or email. For example, LitigationPractice contains a bunch of quantums (such as personal injury damages or wrongful dismissals), practice guides, and texts like The Law of Limitations. Next time you’re in the courthouse, stop by and take a look at this great feature of our Quicklaw subscription!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Douglas v. Faucher (2015 ONSC 1409)
motion — leave — costs — child support — indemnity
Justice J. Mackinnon

Williams v. Curtis (2015 ONSC 1520)
full-time student — child support — parentage — sixty — paternity
Justice T. Minnema

Vogler v. Vogler (2015 ONSC 1341)
costs — litigation — offers to settle — employability — evaluation of a business
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa

Dostie v. Poapst (2015 ONSC 1532)
full recovery costs — offers — subrule — child support — access
Justice T. Minnema

Civil Matters

Lee v. Ontario Lottery and Gaming (2015 ONSC 1621)
duty of fair representation — grievance — bargaining — alleging — self-represented
Justice P. Smith

Guertin v. Legault (2015 ONSC 1391)
retroactive salaries — oppressive conduct — shareholders — accounting — management
Justice M. Labrosse

Recoskie v. Gutoskie (2015 ONSC 1496)
disbursements — costs on a partial indemnity — retainer — time — personal injury
Justice T. Ray

Delco Automation Inc. v. Carlo’s Electric Limited (2015 ONSC 1364)
costs — actions — proceeding — indemnity — offer to settle
Justice P. Smith

Malleck v. Batten (2015 ONSC 887)
genuine issue requiring — motion — triable — summary — will be no genuine
Justice P. Smith

Criminal Matters

R. v. Rampin-Lefebvre (2015 ONSC 1630)
email — interactions — apartment — boyfriend — relationship
Justice C. Hackland

R. v. Ross (2015 ONCJ 115)
officer — alcohol — probable grounds — demand — reasonable
Justice D. Paciocco

R. v. McKay (2015 ONSC 1187)
eyewitness identification — target vehicle — driver — officer — chase
Justice C. Hackland

Divisional Court Decisions from Ottawa Judges

Ottawa Police Services v. Diafwila (2015 ONSC 931)
unsatisfactory work performance — chief of police — independent patrol — tracking — police officer
Justices C. Aitken, T. Lederer and J. Ramsay

Canadian Union of Postal Workers v. Canada Post Corporation (2015 ONSC 729)
seniority — bargaining unit — collective agreement — employee — becomes a route-holding
Justices C. Aitken, T. Lederer and J. Ramsay

From Your Library: HeinOnline

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

One of our favorite online resources is HeinOnline. What exactly is in HeinOnline? It’s an online access point for lots of great legal research materials. Here are just a few of the things that are contained in our subscription that we’ve used when carrying out research for our library clients:

  • Legal and law-related journals – over 2,000 of them!
  • The English Reports (which has reprints of English cases dating from 1220 to 1867)
  • The Revised Statutes of Canada, all sets (good for legislative research)
  • A wide range of American legislation

The really great news is that access to Hein is available to all Law Society members through a subscription worked out by the Law Society of Upper Canada. You can search, read, and download all without paying an additional cent. If you’d like the username and password for Hein, let us know and we can give it to you. It changes roughly twice a year, and did just last week, so you might need to update your information! Keep our email address (library@ccla-abcc.ca) handy!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Lemieux c. Lemieux (2015 CSON 1077)
aliments — conférence — égalisation — question — ordonnances
Juge R. Laliberté

Mowers v. Acland (2015 ONSC 1313)
expert — net family property — redundant — notional income tax — retainer
Justice J. Mackinnon

Rebiere v. Rebiere (2015 CanLII 8459)
husband — wife — spousal support — income — separation
Justice T. Minnema

Ruddle v. Tinman (2015 ONSC 1060)
parents — successful — costs — midweek — installments
Justice J. Mackinnon

MacDonell v. MacDonell (2015 ONSC 1205)
common-law spouse — access to the children — visits — supervised — will
Justice R. Laliberté

Guertin v. Guertin (2015 ONSC 1239)
in-law suite — property — spousal support — contributions — home
Justice J. Blishen

Bentien v. Bentien (2015 ONSC 1252)
costs — child support — set-off — achieve financial self-sufficiency — dice
Justice T. Minnema

Civil Matters

Jordan v. Attorney General of Canada (2015 ONSC 1074)
pleading — prison — officials — defamatory — unlawful
Justice C. Hackland

Baglow v. Smith (2015 ONSC 1175)
blog — defamatory — blogs — political
Justice H. Polowin

Rosarion v. Huntington (2015 ONSC 1181)
treatment — antipsychotic — untreated psychosis — mental — medication
Justice R. Beaudoin

Brousseau c. La Cité collégiale (2015 ONCS 527)
collégiale — enquête préalable — courriels qui sont potentiellement pertinents — retraite des collège d arts — manquement
Juge R. Maranger

Laidler v. The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (2015 ONSC 943)
settling — cross-claim — broker — vendors — indemnity
Justice C. Hackland

Focus Graphite Inc. v. Douglas (2015 ONSC 1104)
posting — defamatory — damages — stock — bulletin board
Justice R. Beaudoin

Hawkins v. Hawkins Estate (2015 ONSC 1106)
summary judgment motion — inducing breach of contract — scale — estate — settlement
Justice T. Minnema

Divisional Court Decisions from Ottawa Judges

Steen v. 3902641 Can Inc. (2015 ONSC 1086)
undertakings — answer — comply — motion — questions
Justice C. Hackland

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Kadolph v. Kadolph (2015 ONSC 900)
spousal support — matrimonial home — income — motion — separation
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa

Abdollahpour v. Banifatemi (2015 ONSC 1019)
offer to settle — motion — costs — spent — indemnity
Justice R. Smith

Philippe v. Bertrand (2015 ONSC 235)
daycare — income — child — expenses — support
Justice P. Kane

Hume v. Tomlinson (2015 ONSC 843)
payor — arrears — recipient — retroactive lump-sum spousal support orders — child support
Justice G. Toscano Roccamo

Carriere c. Jeaurond (2015 ONSC 906)
aliments — father — manifesté l intention bien arrêtée — child — biologique
Juge R. Laliberté

Beattie v. Beattie (2015 ONSC 1020)
motion — child support — miscommunication — costs — indemnity
Justice R. Smith

Bojarski v. Bray (2015 ONSC 902)
costs — motion — primary — successful — children
Justice R. Laliberté

Civil Matters

Kerr v. King’s Landing (2015 ONSC 84)
arbitrator — alteration — owners — relocation — unit
Justice C. Hackland

4439155 Canada Inc. v. Albert Tower Inc. (2015 ONSC 944)
disbursements — partial indemnity — proportional — costs — damages
Justice R. Smith

Levac c. La corporation du village de Cassleman (2015 ONCS 619)
enquête — plaintes — pouvoir discrétionnaire — harcèlement au travail — mandatant
Juge R. Beaudoin

Criminal Matters

R. v. Dourhnou (2015 ONSC 839)
victim — vehicle — sentence — credit for pre-trial custody — manslaughter
Justice C. McKinnon

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Posted on by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Vogler v. Vogler (2015 ONSC 424)
business — property — children — company — separation
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa

Trites v. Mallett (2015 ONSC 441)
children — father — school — husband — matrimonial home
Justice P. Lalonde

Toscano v. Toscano (2015 ONSC 487)
spousal support — marriage contract — income — assets — agreement
Justice J. Blishen

Sharma v. Anand (2015 ONSC 375)
child support — property — fees — income — expenses
Justice P. Kane

Adam v. Trowsdale (2015 ONSC 603)
child support — retroactive — motion — arrears — children of the marriage
Justice P. Smith

Civil Matters

Keenan v. Keenan (2015 ONSC 574)
undertakings — fine — vendor — authorizations — redacted
Justice R. Beaudoin

Wadie Narouz v. Desjardins Financial Security (2015 ONSC 540)
report — neuropsychologist — délibérée ou involontaire et défensive — pawnshop — psychiatric
Master P. Roger

Assaf v. Bosada (2015 ONSC 522)
estate — deceased — late — beneficiaries — proceeding
Justice C. Hackland

3673928 Canada Inc. v. Hawkesbury (Town) (2015 CanLII 2097)
habitable unit — water — units — registered retirement homes — sewage
Justice R. Smith

HVAC Maximum Heating & Cooling Inc v 1693876 Ontario Inc (2015 CanLII 2438)
fax — paralegal — costs — proceeding — advising
Deputy Judge L. Gilbert

Landry v. Picard Estate (2015 ONSC 476)
interim costs — prima facie — legal — funds — focus
Justice M. Labrosse

Heitner v Bao (2015 CanLII 2372)
siding — roof — warranties — agreement of purchase — latent
Deputy Judge L. Gilbert

Lacroix Ladouceur v. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (2015 ONSC 387)
surplus — conflict of interest — plan — members — commuted value
Justice M. Charbonneau

Frank McCann and David Guffie v. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Marc Rochon (2015 ONSC 496)
pro-rata share — benefit enhancements — proposed class members — surplus — certifying
Justice M. Charbonneau

Divisional Court Decisions from Ottawa Judges

Onyskiw v. CJM Property Management Ltd. (2015 ONSC 606)
landlord — maintaining — overrule — elevator — statute
Justices C. Aitken, T. Lederer and J. Ramsay

Silver v. Silver (2015 ONSC 557)
notices of garnishment — stay — marker — spousal support — sold in the normal course
Justice L. Ratushny

Belway v. Petro Canada Fuels Inc. (2015 ONSC 675)
motion — orders — trade secrets — protective — timeline
Justices C. Aitken, T. Lederer and J. Ramsay