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At the Supreme Court of Canada – A busy fall for Goldblatt Partners

September 30, 2026

The Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear 31 appeals this fall and we are very proud to note that Goldblatt Partners lawyers will be appearing in four of these important cases that will no doubt have a significant impact on our Canadian legal landscape:

October 13, 2026 – Durrell Diggs, et al. v. Attorney General of Nova Scotia, et al. (41801)

Goldblatt Partners’ lawyers are appearing on behalf of several interveners in this case. Adriel Weaver will appear on behalf of Queen’s University Prison Law Clinic, Jessica Orkin and Amanda Bruce will appear on behalf of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Saneliso Moyo and Ikram Handulle will appear on behalf of the Black Legal Action Centre alongside their general counsel, Demar Hewitt.

The case relates to the issue of rotational lockdowns of inmates instituted at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility owing to staffing shortages. The applicants filed habeas corpus applications arguing that the rotational lockdowns unlawfully deprived them of their residual liberty. The application judge declared that the lockdowns were unlawful. The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal set the declarations aside.

October 15, 2026 – Ontario Place Protectors v. His Majesty the King in Right of Ontario and Attorney General of Ontario (41805)

Louis Century and Jamie Shilton will represent Greenpeace Canada as an intervener in this appeal, which relates to the redevelopment of Ontario Place pursuant to the Rebuilding Ontario Place Act enacted in 2023. The Applicants have challenged the constitutionality of the Rebuilding Ontario Place Act on the bases that it insulates state action from judicial scrutiny and thereby violates s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, and violates the public trust doctrine.

October 16, 2026 – Consumers’ Union, et al. v. Air Canada, et al. (41866)

Tina Yang and Jamie Shilton will appear in this appeal on behalf of the intervener, Class Action Clinic, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. This case concerns a deceptive marketing practice called “Drip Pricing” where consumers are offered a low price but mandatory fees are later added that the consumers must pay related to the purchase of airline tickets. The Supreme Court will be examining a number of issues including whether s. 224(c) of Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act creates an obligation to honour the advertised price once a consumer decides to enter into the transaction; what a consumer must establish to obtain the remedies under the Act; and the interaction between Quebec consumer-protection legislation and federal paramountcy as it relates to airlines.

December 7, 2026 – Patricia North, et al. v. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, et al. (41913)

Tina Yang, Jamie Shilton and Umaiyahl Nageswaran will appear on behalf of the intervenor, the Public Advocacy Society, in this appeal, which relates to the certification of a proposed class of 66,600 current and former owners and lessees of BMW vehicles that are equipped with N20 engines. The class was certified by a motion judge in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The Court of Appeal for Ontario subsequently set aside the certification decision. Issues in the appeal include recoverability of economic loss, duty to warn, allegations of “other property,” and class certification.

Best of luck to all of our advocates this fall!