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3875
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762
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1101
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Family law
10504
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Human rights
299
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707
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Insurance
567
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Law profession
1298
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Limitation of actions
332
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Medical malpractice
306
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Mortgages
620
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Motor vehicle insurance
541
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Motor vehicle liability
947
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Motor vehicle offences
134
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Municipal law
965
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Native law
402
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- Treaties 9
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Negligence
475
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- Boating 4
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- Defences 10
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- Duty of care 21
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- Foreseeability 5
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- Standard of care 5
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Occupiers' liability
250
- Bridges 2
- Churches 1
- Commercial premises 99
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- Legislation 2
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- Schools 6
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- Sidewalk 1
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- Snow and ice 16
- Stairways 10
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- Partnerships 133
- Pensions 65
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Personal injury quantum
3456
- Aggravated damages 1
- Aggravation of pre-existing condition 137
- Ankle 13
- Ankle and back 1
- Ankles 2
- Appeals 64
- Apportionment of damages 3
- Arm 10
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- Arms 1
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- Back 341
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- Back, neck and shoulder 43
- Back, neck and shoulders 15
- Back, neck and wrist 1
- Back, neck, shoulder 1
- Back, neck, shoulder and hip 2
- Back, shoulder and arm 2
- Back, shoulder and hip 5
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- Brain 182
- Breast 4
- Burns 2
- Causation 94
- Chest 3
- Chest and neck 2
- Chest, neck and shoulder 2
- Chronic pain 92
- Chronic pain and myofascial pain 2
- Collateral benefits 10
- Dizziness 2
- Dystonia 1
- Elbow 9
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- Elderly plaintiffs 7
- Evidence 1
- Eye 7
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- Family compensation act 46
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- Fibromyalgia 24
- Finger 2
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- Future care costs 27
- Hand 8
- Hand and elbow 1
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- Hands 2
- Head 12
- Headaches 37
- Hearing 8
- Hip 28
- Hip and shoulder 1
- Hip, back and knee 1
- Hip, neck and shoulder 1
- Hips 6
- Internal injures 1
- Internal injuries 6
- Intersections 1
- In-trust awards 2
- Jaw 11
- Knee 64
- Knees 4
- Leg 16
- Leg and ankle 3
- Leg and arm 1
- Leg and knee 7
- Leg, hip and wrist 1
- Legs 1
- Loss of earning capacity 2
- Loss of enjoyment 1
- Loss of future earnings 94
- Loss of homemaking capacit 1
- Loss of homemaking capacity 3
- Loss of opportunity 5
- Loss of pension 1
- Loss of profit 2
- Loss of sick leave benefits 2
- Lower back 1
- Management fees 20
- Minor injuries 30
- Mitigation 10
- Multiple injuries 59
- Multiples injuries 1
- Myofascial pain 7
- Nausea vertigo syndrome 1
- Neck 111
- Neck and arm 2
- Neck and back 498
- Neck and hip 1
- Neck and jaw 3
- Neck and shoulder 53
- Neck and shoulders 45
- Neck, back and arm 1
- Neck, back and chest 3
- Neck, back and hip 2
- Neck, back and knee 1
- Neck, back and shoulder 124
- Neck, back and shoulders 179
- Neck, back and wrist 1
- Neck, back, and shoulder 1
- Neck, back, and shoulders 1
- Neck, back, shoulders 1
- Neck, shouder and back 1
- Neck, shoulder and arm 7
- Neck, shoulder and back 39
- Neck, shoulder and hip 2
- Neck, shoulder, and arm 1
- Neck, shoulder, and back 1
- Neck, shoulder, back 1
- Neck, shoulders and back 10
- Neuropathic pain 1
- Paraplegia 5
- Past and future income loss 10
- Past income loss 32
- Payment of judgment 2
- Pedestrians 1
- Pelvis 4
- Pentaplegia 1
- Post-traumatic stress disorder 13
- Principles 11
- Proof of damages 17
- Psychological factors 7
- Psychological injury 98
- Quadriplegia 4
- Ribs 7
- Scarring 3
- Sexual assault 36
- Shoulder 71
- Shoulder and ankle 1
- Shoulder and arm 2
- Shoulder and back 7
- Shoulder and knee 2
- Shoulder and neck 1
- Shoulder, knee and neck 1
- Shoulder, neck and back 11
- Shoulders 3
- Shoulders and neck 1
- Special damages 5
- Spinal cord, bladder 1
- Structured judgments 1
- Tax gross-up 13
- Teeth 2
- Thoracic outlet syndrome 13
- Thumb 1
- Urological dysfunction 2
- Vertigo 1
- Vestibular disorder 1
- Visual-vestibular disorder 2
- Voice 1
- Whiplash 168
- Wrist 18
- Wrist, arm and leg 1
- Personal property 7
- Personal property security 105
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Practice
10513
- Accounting 6
- Actions 63
- Adding defendant 1
- Adding defendants 1
- Adjournment 2
- Admissions 81
- Advance payments 16
- Advances 5
- Affidavits 98
- Amendment 1
- Appeal 2
- Appeals 1935
- Availability 1
- Case planning conferences 12
- Certification 1
- Chambers proceedings 48
- Children 1
- Class actions 704
- Class proceedings 7
- Commencement of proceedings 75
- Consolidation 1
- Counterclaim 11
- Default judgment 219
- Disclosure 9
- Disclosure of documents 57
- Discovery 276
- Discovery of documents 842
- Dismissal 5
- Dismissal for want of compliance with court order 1
- Dismissal for want of compliance with order 40
- Dismissal for want of compliance with rules 19
- Dismissal for want of prosecution 280
- Documents 2
- Evidence 545
- Evidence and procedure at trial 1
- Examination for discovery 285
- Expedited litigation project 12
- Expert reports 1
- Extension of time 1
- Fast track litigation 46
- Fatal injury claims 5
- Financial disclosure 9
- Fourth party proceedings 4
- General 1
- Guardians ad litem 14
- Indigent status 16
- Infant judgments 1
- Infant settlements 37
- Infants 2
- Injunctions 1
- Interlocutory motions 21
- Interpleader 19
- Interrogatories 28
- Intervenors 13
- Judicial case conferences 2
- Jurisdiction generally 1
- Jurisdiction of court 2
- Jury awards 107
- Jury trials 257
- Leave to appeal 3
- Letters rogatory 15
- Mediation 3
- Mistrial 1
- Money in court 6
- Money in trust 4
- No-evidence motions 4
- Notice of civil claim 1
- Orders 349
- Parties 469
- Parties under disability 1
- Physical examination and inspection 12
- Pleadings 1081
- Preliminary point of law 18
- Preservation of property 58
- Preservation orders 1
- Pre-trial conferences 3
- Pre-trial examination of witnesses 38
- Privilege 7
- Proceedings 1
- Production of documents 2
- Reconsideration 1
- References 1
- References and inquiries 13
- Representation agreements 1
- Representative proceedings 3
- Return of property 1
- Sales by court 4
- Separation agreements 1
- Service 26
- Service ex juris 32
- Set-off 1
- Settlement 1
- Settlement of action 217
- Small claims proceedings 166
- Solicitor’s fees 1
- Special case 7
- Stay of execution 15
- Stay of proceedings 50
- Stay pending appeal 1
- Striking out 2
- Subpoenas 12
- Substituting defendant 1
- Summary judgment 1
- Summary judgment 118
- Summary trial 637
- Third party proceedings 133
- Time 7
- Transfer of proceedings 1
- Transfer to provincial court 19
- Trial 533
- Trial management conferences 10
- Trial of issue 2
- Trials 3
- Use of transcript 1
- Venue 29
- Witnesses 53
- Writ of summons 72
- Privacy 106
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Professions
186
- Accountants 38
- Acupuncturists 2
- Architects 2
- Building inspectors 1
- Commodities brokers 1
- Dental assistants 1
- Denturists 1
- Electricians 2
- Engineers 32
- Financial advisors 5
- Foresters 4
- Health professions 3
- Management consultants 2
- Massage therapists 4
- Notaries public 21
- Nurses 3
- Opticians 6
- Optometrists 4
- Pharmacists 8
- Physiotherapists 1
- Professional associations 2
- Property managers 1
- Psychologists 7
- Real estate agents 6
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- Social workers 1
- Statutory officeholders 2
- Surveyors 2
- Veterinarians 19
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Public authorities
453
- Approving officers 1
- Auditor general 2
- Benefits for developmentally disabled persons 2
- Canadian transportation accident investigation and safety board 3
- Commissioner of conflict of interest 3
- Community support 1
- Container trucking commissioner 4
- Coroners 3
- Customs 9
- Daycare regulation 2
- Director of child protection 2
- Director of civil forfeiture 90
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- Director of crime victim assistance 3
- Director of family maintenance enforcement 1
- Ferry commissioner 2
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- Gun control 20
- Immigration 6
- Liquor control 75
- Medical and health services 11
- Medicare 3
- Mental health 10
- Pest control 1
- Pharmacare 4
- Police 124
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- Public trustee 8
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- Safety standards appeal board 2
- School boards 3
- Sheriffs 2
- Social assistance 35
- Superintendent of family and child services 1
- Tobacco control 3
- Vital statistics 12
- Public health & welfare 21
- Public inquiries 4
- Public utilities 36
- Quantum assessment 2
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Real property
1326
- Adverse possession 7
- Agricultural land reserve 20
- Boundaries 19
- Building schemes 46
- Caveats 3
- Condominiums 429
- Contracts 1
- Co-ownership 74
- Easements 178
- Encroachments 36
- Fixtures 9
- Heritage conservation 2
- Highways 14
- Housing co-operatives 7
- Indefeasibility of title 18
- Lateral support 6
- Legislation 8
- Licences 4
- Lis pedens 1
- Lis pendens 214
- Partition & sale 1
- Partition and sale 110
- Plans 4
- Public parks 1
- Recovery of land 7
- Registration of interests 43
- Registration of interests in land 1
- Residential tenancies 1
- Restrictive covenants 47
- Riparian rights 3
- Statutory right of way 8
- Strata corporations 2
- Surveys 2
- Receivers 113
- Resources 371
- Restitution 198
- Sale of goods 97
-
Sale of land
730
- Agreements for sale 10
- Building inspectors 4
- Completion of contract 84
- Contract 166
- Contractors 3
- Contracts 6
- Contractual interest 1
- Developers 21
- Misrepresentation 114
- Options to purchase 40
- Real estate agents 91
- Remedies 146
- Right of first refusal 9
- Vendor’s title obligations 3
- Vendor's title obligations 13
- Warranties 14
- Securities 179
- Societies 174
- Statutes 18
-
Taxation
552
- Carbon tax 1
- Corporate taxation 2
- Corporation capital tax 8
- Fire tax 2
- Fuel tax 3
- Gst 14
- Harmonized sales tax 1
- Hotel room tax 1
- Income tax 89
- Income tax offences 1
- Insurance premium tax 1
- Legislation 3
- Logging tax 3
- Mineral tax 5
- Parking rights tax 2
- Property transfer tax 29
- Real property assessment 244
- Real property tax 16
- Sales tax 102
- Social services tax 3
- Social-services tax 5
- Tax sales 4
- Tobacco tax 10
-
Torts
651
- Abuse of process 7
- Abuse of public office 14
- Abuse of statutory authority 1
- Alienation of affection 1
- Ancillary liability 2
- Assault 72
- Assault and battery 4
- Battery 11
- Breach of confidence 12
- Breach of privacy 1
- Conspiracy 31
- Conversion 51
- Damages 2
- Deceit 19
- Detinue 2
- False arrest 1
- False arrest and imprisonment 15
- False imprisonment 2
- Fraud 8
- Fraudulent misrepresentation 8
- Fraudulent preferences 1
- Harassment 2
- Inducing breach of contract 9
- Injurious falsehood 1
- Intentional infliction of mental distress 1
- Intentional interference with economic relations 1
- Interference with contractual relations 11
- Interference with economic relations 2
- Intimidation 1
- Invasion of privacy 11
- Joint and several liability 8
- Malicious prosecution 15
- Misappropriation of personality 1
- Misfeasance in public office 15
- Negligence 1
- Nuisance 61
- Passing off 27
- Products liability 19
- Sexual assault 74
- Spoliation 2
- Trespass 6
- Trespass to chattels 4
- Trespass to land 94
- Vicarious liability 17
- Wrongful arrest 3
-
Trusts
331
- Administration of trust 21
- Advisors to the trust 2
- Beneficiaries 8
- Breach of trust 24
- Charitable trusts 17
- Constructive trust 1
- Constructive trusts 40
- Creation 9
- Disclaimer 2
- Express trust 1
- Express trusts 51
- Express, resulting and constructive trusts 7
- Implied trusts 1
- Purpose trusts 2
- Rectification 1
- Remedies generally 6
- Resulting trust 1
- Resulting trusts 70
- Secret trusts 7
- Termination 8
- Trustees 50
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Wills & estates
934
- Actions 1
- Administration 1
- Administration of estate 132
- Conflict of laws 3
- Costs 60
- Debts owed to estate 1
- Executors 2
- Executors & administrators 1
- Executors and administrators 158
- Interpretation 1
- Intestate succession 46
- Legislation 7
- Passing of accounts 1
- Practice 4
- Property of estate 1
- Settlement of action 1
- Will 1
- Wills 236
- Wills interpretation 52
- Wills variation 225
- Workers' compensation 314
-
Administrative law
271
-
Commercial
13872
- Administrative law 89
- Agency 48
- Agriculture 10
- Arbitration 345
- Bailment 20
- Banking 69
-
Bankruptcy
305
- Actions 38
- Administration of estate 24
- Annulment 4
- Appeals 5
- Claims 39
- Cross-border insolvencies 1
- Discharge 43
- Legislation 3
- Petitions for receiving orders 23
- Practice 15
- Priorities 5
- Proceedings generally 1
- Property of the bankrupt 22
- Proposals 35
- Receiving orders 11
- Rights of creditors 1
- Securities firm bankruptcies 1
- Settlements and preferences 8
- Stay of proceedings 7
- Trustees 19
- Bills of exchange 47
- Builders' liens 163
- Carriers 20
- Charter of rights 4
- Choses in action 15
- Class actions 2
- Commissions 1
- Communications 6
- Condominiums 1
- Conflict of laws 298
- Constitutional law 29
- Construction law 313
- Consumer protection 27
- Contempt of court 92
- Contract 1
-
Contracts
847
- Breach 139
- Breach of confidence 1
- Breach of duty 1
- Certainty of terms 5
- Collateral contracts 10
- Conditions precedent 5
- Consideration 1
- Contracts made while insolvent 1
- Discharge 46
- Enforcement 7
- Formation 126
- Franchise agreements 6
- Interpretation 189
- Misrepresentation 16
- Mistake 8
- Mortgages 1
- Non-competition clauses 4
- Novation 4
- Parties 31
- Performance 18
- Privity 4
- Proof 5
- Rectification 14
- Releases 5
- Remedies 83
- Repudiation 2
- Restrictive covenants 23
- Restrictive coventants 1
- Tenders 3
- Termination 16
- Terms 20
- Unilateral contracts 3
- Unjust enrichment 1
- Validity 44
- Conversion 1
- Corporate opportunities 1
-
Corporations
806
- Actions 199
- Amalgamation 6
- Arrangement and compromises 7
- Arrangements and compromises 206
- Contracts 13
- Corporate opportunities 4
- Debentures 3
- Derivative actions 5
- Directors 1
- Directors and officers 47
- Dissolution 12
- Extraprovincial corporations 1
- Fraud or oppression 73
- Fraudulent conveyancesd or oppression 1
- Incorporation 1
- Liability 7
- Liability of agent 1
- Meetings 12
- Proceedings 8
- Records 4
- Redemption of shares 1
- Register of members 1
- Restoration and reinstatement 1
- Security 1
- Security agreements 1
- Security for costs 23
- Sha 1
- Shareholders 58
- Shareholders' agreements 1
- Shares 58
- Winding up 3
- Winding-up 45
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Costs
883
- Administrative proceedings 4
- Amount involved 13
- Appeals 12
- Appeals as to costs 10
- Assessment 16
- Class actions 3
- Conduct of counsel 3
- Conduct of parties 81
- Contractual provisions 10
- Costs against non-parties 2
- Costs in the cause 1
- Costs of appeal 1
- Costs of appeals 59
- Costs of motions 27
- Disbursements 10
- Discretion of court 33
- Divided success 3
- Fast track litigation 9
- Increased costs 50
- Liability 2
- Nature of litigation 31
- Offer to settle 77
- Orders as to costs 2
- Outcome of litigation 140
- Parties entitled to costs 9
- Parties entitled to or liable for costs 2
- Parties liable for costs 3
- Payment of costs 1
- Persons entitled to costs 1
- Persons liable for costs 4
- Practice and procedure 6
- Procedural inefficiencies 5
- Recovery 1
- Security for costs 132
- Special costs 85
- Summary trial 2
- Tariff of costs 1
- Unfounded allegations 24
- Courts 97
- Creditors' remedies 173
- Creditors’ remedies 3
- Criminal law 4
- Crown 25
- Damages 42
- Defamation 83
- Defences 1
- Directors 1
- Education 2
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Employment
854
- Characterization of relationship 22
- Constructive dismissal 75
- Contract of employment 152
- Contracts 2
- Corporations 1
- Duties and liability of employee 39
- Duties and liability of employee/employer 1
- Duties and liability of employer 11
- Duties of employee 1
- Legislation 37
- Remuneration 26
- Severance pay 3
- Vacation pay 1
- Wages 1
- Wills interpretation 1
- Wrongful dismissal 480
- Wrongful resignation 1
- Environmental law 61
- Equity 14
- Estoppel 76
- Examination for discovery 2
- Expropriation 48
- Fiduciaries 55
- Fourth party proceedings 1
- Franchises 17
- Fraudulent transactions 87
- Gaming 5
- Gifts 1
- Guarantee 1
- Guarantee & indemnity 115
- Human rights 19
- Income tax 1
-
Injunctions
426
- Anti-suit injunctions 5
- Anton piller orders 2
- Availability 6
- Enforcement 2
- Ex parte injunctions 18
- Interim injunction 2
- Interim injunctions 286
- Interlocutory injunctions 3
- Mandatory injunctions 6
- Mareva injunctions 86
- Mareva injunctions 1
- Permanent injunctions 2
- Pleadings 1
- Practice 1
- Remedies 2
- Statutory injunctions 2
- Variation 1
-
Insurance
193
- Actions 48
- Agents 17
- All-risks insurance 8
- Business interruption insurance 4
- Course of construction contract 1
- Course of construction insurance 2
- Creditors' insurance 1
- Creditors’ insurance 1
- Defences 2
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Disability insurance 1
- Duties & liability of insured 1
- Duties and liability of insured 4
- Duties of insured 3
- Fidelity insurance 4
- Fire insurance 13
- Government regulation 2
- Homeowners' insurance 4
- Insurance generally 27
- Interpretation 1
- Interpretation of contract 1
- Interpretation of policy 5
- Liability insurance 17
- Liability of insurer 4
- Life insurance 1
- Marine insurance 12
- Mortgage life insurance 1
- Property and loss of income insurance 2
- Subrogation 3
- Intellectual property 24
- Interest 69
- Interest act 1
- Interim injunctions 2
- Interpretation 1
- Interpretation of policy 1
- Labour law 156
- Landlord & tenant 365
-
Law profession
269
- Conflict of interest 43
- Custodianships 3
- Discipline 2
- Duties and liability generally 29
- Law society 2
- Negligence 43
- Partnerships 13
- Removal of solicitor 2
- Remuneration 1
- Solicitor and client 1
- Solicitor’s fees 21
- Solicitor's fees 1
- Solicitors' fees 1
- Solicitor's fees 102
- Trust funds 2
- Unauthorized practice 2
- Withdrawal or removal of solicitor 1
- Liability insurance 1
- Limitation of actions 68
- Lis pendens 2
- Maintenance 1
- Mareva injunctions 1
- Maritime law 30
- Mortgages 319
- Motor vehicle insurance 13
- Motor vehicles 14
-
Municipal law
248
- Actions 4
- Building permits 2
- Building regulation 27
- Business licences 2
- Business regulation 26
- Bylaws 9
- Bylaws and regulations 2
- Bylaws and resolutions 58
- Contracts 13
- Development cost charges 4
- Development permits 11
- Financial management 1
- Financial management of municipality 1
- Legislation 1
- Liability 13
- Municipal services 1
- Official community plans 1
- Powers 4
- Subdivision approval 1
- Subdivisions 10
- Tax sales 1
- Zoning 53
- Zoning bylaws 3
- Native law 46
-
Negligence
128
- Apportionment of liability 2
- Breach of statute 1
- Causation 3
- Commercial hosts 1
- Construction 2
- Contributory negligence 1
- Damages 3
- Duty of care 4
- Fires 5
- Hazardous materials 3
- Joint and independent tortfeasors 1
- Liability in particular cases 1
- Manufactured goods 1
- Negligent hiring 1
- Negligent misrepresentation 79
- Performance of contract 11
- Proof of negligence 1
- Public officials 6
- Reliance 1
- Remanufactured goods 1
- Occupiers' liability 10
- Partnerships 104
- Pensions 29
- Personal property security 93
-
Practice
2974
- Accounting 4
- Actions 17
- Adding defendants 1
- Admissions 16
- Advances 3
- Affidavits 27
- Appeals 494
- Availability 1
- Case planning conferences 2
- Certification 1
- Chambers proceedings 11
- Class actions 391
- Class proceedings 2
- Commencement of proceedings 28
- Counterclaim 3
- Court order interest 1
- Default judgment 68
- Disclosure 7
- Disclosure of documents 32
- Discontinuance 1
- Discovery 10
- Discovery of documents 197
- Dismissal for want of compliance with court order 1
- Dismissal for want of compliance with order 7
- Dismissal for want of compliance with rules 5