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Posted on June 14, 2021October 12, 2021

Ontario – on appeal, court raises legislation neither party pleaded in arbitration, reversing arbitrator’s definition of key term – #502

…see “Ontario – Vavilov does not overrule Teal Cedar or Sattva Capital – #302”. Mr. Justice Glenn A. Hainey held that Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019…

Posted on December 4, 2024December 3, 2024

Ontario – Court weighs in on standard of review post-Vavilov (and decides) – #879

…v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190: Sattva, at paras. 104-106. But Vavilov reconsidered the court’s Dunsmuir framework. Vavilov sought to simplify and bring coherence to the…

Posted on December 3, 2021May 4, 2022

Newfoundland and Labrador – Labour Arbitrator’s Collective Agreement Interpretation Passes Vavilov Reasonableness Muster – #559

…precepts laid down in both Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 [Vavilov] and Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53 [Sattva]. Although…

Posted on January 5, 2022May 4, 2022

Laura’s 2021 Top Pick: B.C. – Spirit Bay Developments Limited Partnership v. Scala Developments Consultants Ltd. – #569

…2021: what is Vavilov’s impact on commercial arbitration appeals? Although on its own Spirit Bay is not the most significant case of the year, the impact of the Vavilov on…

Posted on April 30, 2026April 30, 2026

B.C. – Correctness standard applies to arbitral appeals on questions of law – #943

…a rent renewal dispute, held that the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 (“Vavilov”), applies to appeals of arbitral…

Posted on January 30, 2023August 8, 2023

Alberta – Alberta never bound by Sattva and Teal Cedar – #705

…effect of Vavilov – Justice Marion noted that the Supreme Court of Canada did not specifically address statutory arbitration appeals in Vavilov,  but stated that there was, “no convincing reason…

Posted on October 26, 2021May 4, 2022

Ontario – Court of Appeal does not address whether Vavilov changed the standard of review – #546

…it was unnecessary to address whether Vavilov changed the standard of review analysis in Sattva and Teal Cedar in an appeal from a commercial arbitration decision. Justice Jamal held that…

Posted on November 28, 2025November 28, 2025

Stephanie’s Reflections (2025): The Battle of the Standards of Review – #926

…Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 [Vavilov]. Since then, lower courts in Canada have grappled with two opposite interpretations: the first, that the standard of review analysis in Vavilov applies…

Posted on November 8, 2023November 3, 2023

Manitoba – Awards set aside after arbitrator re-wrote parties’ bargain – #790

…for leave to appeal, in which it held that the correctness standard of appeal in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 (“Vavilov”) applies to review…

Posted on September 28, 2021May 4, 2022

Saskatchewan – Arbitrator’s jurisdiction when one party alleged to have repudiated arbitration agreement – #536

…65, (“Vavilov”) supplanted the correctness standard with one of reasonableness, Justice Clackson relied upon the direction in Vavilov that the standard “must reflect the legislature’s intent with respect to the…

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