Publications

CBM LLP, Fillmore Riley LLP, McKercher LLP, Northpoint Legal, June 07, 2018 – To view the recording, please click here. Across the country, insurers and defence counsel are facing an increase in claims from self-represented litigants. These cases face a number of different hurdles and need to be handled carefully and satisfy the principles recently endorsed by the Supreme Court of Canada in Pintea v. Johns. In this...

McKercher LLP, Saskatchewan, January 19, 2018 – The procedure in Saskatchewan’s Small Claims Court will undergo some significant changes as of January 1, 2018, when The Small Claims Act, 2016 comes into force.  The amendments follow the recent increase of the limit for monetary claims in Small Claims Court from $20,000 to $30,000. Read More

McKercher LLP, Saskatchewan, September 11, 2017 – In the recent decision of Saadati v. Moorhead, 2017 SCC 28, the Supreme Court of Canada clarified the evidentiary requirements for a plaintiff to prove mental injury in a negligence claim. Previously, it was commonly understood that establishing mental injury required proof of a recognized psychiatric illness through expert evidence establishing both the injury and...

McKercher LLP, Saskatchewan, October 14, 2016 – In a decision released September 15, 2016 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on the interpretation of the exclusion found in most all-risk policies for the cost of making good faulty workmanship. The Supreme Court of Canada simplified the analysis, yet narrowed the interpretation of that exclusion clause such that it will likely apply less...