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Summaries Sunday: Maritime Law Book

Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca.

This week’s summaries concern:
Public utilities & rates / Expert evidence:

Union Gas Ltd. v. Ontario Energy Board 2013 ONSC 7048
Public Utilities – Public utility commissions or corporations (incl. private providers) – Regulation – Rates – Power to fix just and reasonable rates
Union Gas Ltd. appealed from a November 19, 2012 decision of the Ontario Energy Board, referred to as Board proceeding EB-2012-0087. The purpose of that proceeding was to determine the amount of Union Gas Ltd.’s 2011 utilities earnings that would be returned to ratepayers through an Earnings Sharing Mechanism (ESM). Specifically, the proceeding focussed on $22 million of . . .

Lockridge et al. v. Ontario (Minister of Environment) et al. 2012 ONSC 2316
Evidence – Opinion evidence – Expert evidence – General – Admissibility – General 
The applicants applied for judicial review of a decision made by the Director of the Ministry of the Environment under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) in April 2010, respecting the sulphur output of Suncor Energy Products Inc.’s Plant #4 Sulphur Recovery Unit in Sarnia. The applicants were residents of the area and members of a First Nations Community. Central to their application was the claim that the Director’s . . .

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