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New Brunswick Court of Appeal Limits Appellate Intervention in Motion Judges’ Discretion to Grant or Deny Partial Summary Judgment

December 17, 2019

In Babin v. C.J.M. Dieppe Investments Ltd. and TG 378 Gauvin Ltd., 2019 NBCA 44, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal made clear that it will not interfere lightly with a motion judge’s discretionary decision to grant partial summary judgment, particularly where a decision on the merits is correct in law.  The Court of Appeal set out a specific list of questions to consider when deciding whether to exercise that discretion where the whole matter would not be disposed of.

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