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The Court of Appeal’s Plea to Motions Scheduling Judges: Stop Letting Parties Waste Judicial Resources with Partial Summary Judgment Motions

On December 12, 2020, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Malik v. Attia, 2020 ONCA 787. In this case, the Court of Appeal sent a clear message to judges scheduling motions for ...
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Missing the Mark: Summary Judgment Granted Where Plaintiff’s Experts Opine on Defect but Fail to Support Causation

Product liability claims require proof of causation. To be sure, they also require proof of some defect in the product and/or its accompanying warnings and product literature. But defect and causation ...