{"id":8134,"date":"2022-03-08T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2022-03-08T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:25:28","slug":"cant-use-wait-and-see-approach-to-strike-out-jury-in-civil-claim-against-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/cant-use-wait-and-see-approach-to-strike-out-jury-in-civil-claim-against-municipality\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t Use Wait-and-See Approach to Strike out Jury in Civil Claim against Municipality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jury trials have been a casualty during the Covid-19 shutdowns because the courts were willing to strike juries during the time that juries couldn\u2019t be assembled following post-pandemic restrictions on gatherings, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the courts were flooded with motions to strike juries, and the rulings varied.\u00a0 One approach, however, that gained popularity was to take a \u201c<strong>wait and see approach<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, the court wouldn\u2019t strike the jury at the conclusion of the motion, but instead they would allow the jury to remain until the case inched closer to the scheduled trial at which time the decision would be made depending on the situation prevailing at that future point in time.\u00a0 This was dubbed the \u201cwait-and-see\u201d approach.<\/p>\n<p>Juries, however, can be struck out for other reasons: the most notable being if the civil claim is against a municipality.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/rso-1990-c-c43\/latest\/rso-1990-c-c43.html\"><em>Courts of Justice Act<\/em> R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43<\/a> prevents these (and a myriad of other) claims from being heard by a jury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The interesting twist in this case was whether a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach could be used in a civil claim where a municipality was only one of a number of defendants, and there was a good chance that the municipality was going to settle their exposure and be removed from the claim: of course once removed, the remaining claim would not involve any municipality (and hence the jury could remain, in theory).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this case, one of the defendants, relying on the Covid-19 line of \u201cwait and see\u201d jury rulings, lobbied for the \u201cwait and see\u201d approach to be used in the context of a single municipal defendant who could, sometime in the future, be released from the claim.\u00a0 The court, however, rejected this argument outright.\u00a0 The Court concluded that once the claim was commenced against a municipality, there was no jurisdiction to have the claim adjudicated before a jury.\u00a0 Just because parties flouted the law by serving a jury notice, no right to a jury ever existed and it cannot be gained after the fact.\u00a0 With no such right, applying a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach had no application.\u00a0 The jury was struck (and it was immaterial when the trial would be heard: imminently or remotely).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dhaliwal et al. v. Gill et al<\/em><\/strong>., 2022 ONSC 1445<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1445\/2022onsc1445.html\">https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1445\/2022onsc1445.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jury trials have been a casualty during the Covid-19 shutdowns because the courts were willing to strike juries during the time that juries couldn\u2019t be assembled following post-pandemic restrictions on gatherings, etc.\u00a0 Indeed, the courts were flooded with motions to strike juries, and the rulings varied.\u00a0 One approach, however, that gained popularity was to take&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/cant-use-wait-and-see-approach-to-strike-out-jury-in-civil-claim-against-municipality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can\u2019t Use Wait-and-See Approach to Strike out Jury in Civil Claim against Municipality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-practice","tag-jury-notice","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can\u2019t Use Wait-and-See Approach to Strike out Jury in Civil Claim against Municipality - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jury notices served in Ontario civil claims involving a municipalities are invalid, and will never be valid even if the municipality is eventually released.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/cant-use-wait-and-see-approach-to-strike-out-jury-in-civil-claim-against-municipality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can\u2019t Use Wait-and-See Approach to Strike out Jury in Civil Claim against Municipality - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jury notices served in Ontario civil claims involving a municipalities are invalid, and will never be valid even if the municipality is eventually released.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/cant-use-wait-and-see-approach-to-strike-out-jury-in-civil-claim-against-municipality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-08T17:25:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-08T17:25:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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