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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 31, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion amending Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510 governing summary judgment proceedings, to adopt the summary judgment standard articulated by the United States Supreme Court in Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317 (1986); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986); Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574 (1986), but without making substantive changes to the rule. The court made the effective date May 1, 2021, to allow for c...

On December 12, 2020, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Malik v. Attia, 2020 ONCA 787. In this case, the Court of Appeal sent a clear message to judges scheduling motions for partial summary judgment: stop! What is Partial Summary Judgment? Every lawyer has cases that make them think to themselves, “If we could just resolve this one issue, all the other issues would fall into place. ” For example, you’re dealing with a breach of contract case where the vendor failed to deliver a product and the buyer suffered damages for not being able to fulfill orders without the p...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. One of the tools parties use to shorten the length of civil actions is to resolve their disputes by way of summary judgment. The Supreme Court of Canada's clarion call for timely and affordable justice in Hyrniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, promoted the use of summary judgment as a way to dismiss or allow actions that could be resolved in the context of a “mini-trial”. But motions for summary judgment may have become the victim of their own success.  A recent trend in Ontario appellate ca...