Does the right to a jury trial have to yield in civil cases?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lightfoot v. Hodgins et al., 2021 ONSC 1950 (CanLII):
Similarly, in MacLeod v. Canadian Road Management Company, 2018 ONSC 2186 [MacLeod], Myers J. noted: “The right to a civil jury trial might therefore have to yield in appropriate cases in order to provide the parties with an expeditious, affordable, and proportionate resolution that is fair and, especially, one that is “just” as we currently comprehend that term.” [See para. 32].
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