
Selected Cases
Examples of my decision-making analysis and writing style can be found in the illustrative decisions that I authored as a judge set out below.
Commercial Cases
TRIAL DECISIONS
Dispute over the fairness of a share redemption transactions involving closely-held family companies.
View PDFAPPEAL DECISIONS
Appeal from a judgment in a proceeding in which investors alleged their investments in vehicles designed to develop Russian oil and gas fields were induced by fraudulent misrepresentations.
View PDFAppeal concerning whether Ontario regulations prevented a British Columbia based online retailer of prescription eyewear from filling orders placed by Ontario residents.
View PDFWhether a landlord was entitled to draw on the full amount of a letter of credit posted as security by a tenant in circumstances where the tenant’s trustee in bankruptcy had disclaimed the lease.
View PDFDissent in commercial lease interpretation case.
View PDFEstate Cases
TRIAL DECISIONS
Interpretation of primary and secondary wills in the context of a multi-corporation estate, inter-company loans, and bequests of specific assets to the testator’s grandchildren
View PDFArbitration-Related Decisions
APPEAL DECISIONS
The standard of proof applicable on an application under s. 9 of the International Commercial Arbitration Act, 2017 to stay a court proceeding on the basis that the dispute was subject to an arbitration agreement.
View PDFWhether bringing a motion in court to strike out part of a claim prevented the motion party from seeking to stay the court action in favour of arbitration
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