The trial began, quite unremarkably, on a sunny summer day in July of 2011.

There is no doubt that the delay in this case is inordinate in the extreme.

To quote Einstein, if you can't explain it to a 12-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.

This issue was thinly argued, so I will not skate far with it on that small rink of thin ice Song Woon Enterprises Ltd.

There is no indication in the material before me that the child has any particular ability or level of participation in sporting or other activities beyond what could be described as that of an average child.

Defendants are not required to go along for the ride while a plaintiff learns the "in's and out's" of litigation or explores alternatives to his complaints.

A former justice of the Supreme Court of the United States once said that although it might be difficult to define obscenity he knew it when he saw it.

A flood claim is a mayday for experts and they commonly row to the rescue from opposite directions.

It was thus at 7:10 PM that [the police constable] endeavored to inform [the defendant] about his right to counsel pursuant to section 10 of the Charter.

While it is improbable this is the longest running reassessment in Canadian tax history it is nonetheless well aged; the mists of time accompanying its age surround it and breathe life to the Appellant's opposition to this request to amend the Reply.

The regulation, as presently worded, is an elephant gun; it is not an appropriate weapon with which to dispatch the Christmas mouse.

So, in the circle of life that is the Toronto motions culture, an Issues List developed at the suggestion of an experienced case management judge to avoid summary judgment motions and to secure an expedited trial of a dispute on its merits, now finds itself confined to the dustbin of "judicial nice tries", with the parties turning their backs on the proffered expedited trial date and hunkering down for summary judgment motions.