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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Authored by: Vanessa Glasser, counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General, Crown Law Office Civil, and Vincent Rocheleau, associate, Blaney McMurtry LLP Introduction In 2009, the Ontario Court of Appeal in McKee v Reid's Heritage Homes Ltd.1 formulated a two-step test to determine whether a worker was a dependent contractor or an independent contractor in the employment law context.

Good afternoon. Please find below our summaries of this past week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Topics covered included insurance broker negligence, zoning (use) bylaw enforcement, the wrongful termination of a commercial lease and the automatic right of appeal of bankruptcy orders. Please join me and Lea Nebel at our “Top Appeals of 2019” CLE dinner program to take place at the OBA on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Three decisions will be featured.

Good afternoon. Curiously, there was only one substantive civil decision of the Court of Appeal this week. In Nolet v Fischer, the Court of Appeal applied the principle of statutory interpretation expressio unius est exclusio alternius (to express one thing is to exclude another) in determining that the Occupiers’ Liability Act does not preclude one occupier of a premises from having a duty of care towards another occupier of the same premises.