What is the impact of summary judgment on personal injury cases?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rego v Walmart, 2017 ONSC 2599 (CanLII):
Although the court in Hryniak v. Mauldin recognized the summary judgment procedure to be a legitimate alternative to the conventional trial for the adjudication of civil disputes, the court reserved some concern about when the summary judgment procedure will not provide a fair and just process. At paragraph 50 of Hryniak v. Mauldin, Justice Karakatsanis said this:
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