‘Learning from Others: Summary Judgment in Canada’

Suzanne Chiodo, Gerard Kennedy and Alyssa S King, ‘Hryniak‘s Erosion: Summary Judgment in Ontario’ (3 February, 2026) (Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper Series No 6401158, available at SSRN). Any serious study of civil procedure in the United States should learn from other procedural systems. Comparative study has a number of advantages. It can provide insights about alternatives. It can shed light on beneficial features of our own procedural system that we take for granted. And it can generate questions for further study. In ‘Hyrniak’s Erosion: Summary Judgment in Ontario’, Suzanne E Chiodo, Gerard J Kennedy and Alyssa King conduct an insightful and nuanced empirical study of summary judgment motions in Ontario provincial courts … (more)

[Sergio J Campos, JOTWELL, 2 September 2026]

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