The plaintiff who treats a defence motion for summary judgment as a speed bump on the long highway to trial risks crashing its case in the deep ditch of dismissal.

While it is widely accepted that the dog is man's best friend, it is less certain whether the dog is man's best neighbour.

Counsel provided me with case law which unhappily illustrates the fact that fences, which ostensibly might create good neighbours, in fact seem capable of creating legal arguments.

This was a skirmish in this particular theatre of war between the two sides.

In "Mending Wall"1 , poet Robert Frost and his neighbour are engaged in their annual spring ritual of repairing the stacked stone wall that divides their properties.

It appears to me a rather challenging proposition for the defendants to suggest that I should actually interpret the phrases displayed prominently on this document, i.

The Defendants submit that in not permitting transcription of the Reasons for Decision for the summary judgment motion, Justice Wright committed a breach of natural justice because the parties have a fundamental right to have access to the Reasons for Decision.

If [the defendant] thinks he can wave away Meads v.

[A friend] and [the defendant] and a few of their friends were often to be found in some of Toronto's most posh neighbourhoods.

The appellant submits that the respondent has been unjustly enriched.

Breaking Bad, meet Breaking Bad Parents.

Why do written costs submissions frequently try to lead us into some sort of parallel universe where losers are actually winners? If you lost, don't re-write the facts to argue that you won.