«Such decisions evolve from the Court of
Appeal upon the exercise of jurisdiction over appeals from the court below.
Not exact matches
Discretionary orders of prothonotaries ought not be disturbed on
appeal to a judge unless: a) the questions raised in the motion are vital to the final issue of the case, or b) the orders are clearly wrong, in the sense that the
exercise of discretion by the prothonotary was based
upon a wrong principle or
upon a misapprehension of the facts.
(2) A person referred to in subsection (1) has exclusive jurisdiction to
exercise the powers conferred
upon him or her under this Act and to determine all questions of fact or law that arise in any proceeding before him or her and, unless an
appeal is provided under this Act, his or her decision thereon is final and conclusive for all purposes.
The Court of
Appeal then took it
upon itself to
exercise its discretion noting the case was a most unusual one.
The Court of
Appeal found that the danger of the pond was obvious and there seemed to be no basis
upon which it could be said that, in the
exercise of reasonable care, the occupiers should have underlined or emphasised so obvious a danger.
78 For these reasons, I have no difficulty in holding on the facts agreed
upon for the purpose of this
appeal, that the counts of fraud with which the appellant is charged may properly be prosecuted in Canada, and I see nothing in the requirements of international comity that would dictate that this country refrain from
exercising its jurisdiction.
For as long as anyone can remember, senior living executives have relied
upon the
appeal that most seniors eat frozen TV dinners, depend on their grown children for rides, wait for days for the phone to ring, and struggle to find motivation to
exercise.