April 18, 2012
Éditions Écosociété Inc. v. Banro Corp
The Court held (unanimously) that the appeal is dismissed and finds that a real and substantial connection exists between the action and the Ontario court's territory. The Court concludes that although the "claim has connections to more than one forum, given the strength of the connections between the plaintiff and Ontario, it is not at all clear that the plaintiff is engaged in libel tourism and that Quebec would be a clearly more appropriate forum".

April 18, 2012
Breeden v. Black
The Court held (unanimously) that the appeal is dismissed and concludes that an Illinois court does not emerge as a clearly more appropriate forum than an Ontario court for the trial of the libel actions brought by Lord Black.

April 13, 2012
R v Tse 2012 SCC 16
Justices Moldaver and Karakatsanis, on behalf of the Supreme Court, upheld the BC lower court judgment, which had found that s. 184.4 contravened the right to be free from unreasonable search or seizure under s. ...

April 2, 2012
Out-of-Home Marketing Association of Canada v. Toronto
The Ontario Court of Appeal set aside a sealing order, reversing the lower court's decision. Justice Epstein, writing for the court on the issue of the sealing order, states that "a request to have exhibits sealed implicates the open court principle, and must be approached with great care". Epstein J. finds that the applicant for the sealing order failed to meet the first part of the Dagenais/Mentuck test, which requires that the order be "necessary in order to prevent a serious risk to the proper administration of justice because reasonably alternative measures will not prevent the risk".

March 2, 2012
National Bank Financial Ltd. v. Potter
The Halifax Herald and the CBC opposed an application by a witness in a civil action for a Confidentiality Order. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia dismissed the application for the Confidentiality Order, and found that "the deleterious effects of the Confidentiality Order requested would outweigh the speculative positive effects of granting such an order."