City Not Liable for Icy Boulevard The City of London has successfully defended a slip and fall action that occurred following a winter storm. In Bondy v. London (City) , [20...
Gross Negligence Standard for Municipal Sidewalks In Richer v. Elliot Lake [2001] ONSC the plaintiff slipped and fell on ice on a sidewalk. In accordance with s. 44(9) of the Municipal Act, ...
Gross Negligence The Court of Appeal for Ontario has upheld a decision which found that the City of Mississauga’s response to a winter storm event was reason...
Action dismissed due to failure to comply with Municipal Act notice provision Zogjani v. Toronto (City) , [2011] O.J. No. 1002 (S.C.J.) In this slip and fall case against the City of Toronto, the City brought a motion ...
More on Crinson v. Toronto, 2010 ONCA 44. Two days ago I blogged on a comment left from an Indian lawyer to my blog of February 27, 2010 . That discussion revolved around the Ontario...
Benefit of the Doubt has to be given to the Victim It is not often we get comments on our blog. It is even rarer when we get a comment from someone who is outside Ontario, much less Canada. S...
If a City is going to fix a sidewalk, it has to do a good job The Ontario Court of Appeal says that the City of Burlington was partly liable for a woman's broken leg because the City's sidewalk ...
Amendments to MMS Final comment from Jennifer Stirton on the new Ontario Municipal Maintenance Standards: 7. Inspection for Sidewalk Discontinuity The MMS no...
Amendments to MMS More commentary on the recent amendments to the MMS, by Jennifer Stirton. 2. Application of MMS Not Restricted to Motor Vehicles The MMS pre...
Graham v. Toronto, [2009] O.J. No. 4633 This is a decision of A. Sosna J. of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. I think this is an interesting decision because the judge dismis...
Sidewalk Non-Repair A recent decision of Justice Matheson of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Hamilton found that a depression in a sidewalk of 5/8 of a...