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On a Summary Judgment motion, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded an Employee $7,500 in damages for mental distress together with damages of $17,076 in lieu of lost income for the Employer’s failure to provide the Employee with a revised notice of termination. The Employee, a 72 year old man, worked as a security

In a recent case, a Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice outlined the appropriate procedure to be used where summary judgment is awarded to a Plaintiff seeking a notice period which would not expire until after the summary judgment motion. The Plaintiff, a 54 year old Project Manager and Senior Water Resources Engineer,

In Levac v. James, 2016 ONSC 7727 the Ontario Superior Court both certified the class action, and awarded summary judgment to the plaintiffs, a procedural rarity in Ontario class action jurisprudence. Levac v. James involved an infectious outbreak among patients who received epidural injections from the defendant doctor. Toronto Public Health investigators found that the