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Court convicted defendants of assault and uttering threats, rejecting their implausible self-defence claims.
The defendants were charged with assault causing bodily harm and uttering threats following an incident at the Welland Inn.
The Crown alleged that the defendants and a third party attacked the complainant after he arrived at the hotel with his spouse to check on a property sale.
The defendants claimed the complainant attacked them with a walking stick and they acted in self-defence.
The court found the complainant and his spouse's testimony credible and coherent, rejected the defendants' version as internally and externally inconsistent, and found no air of reality to the self-defence claim.
Both defendants were convicted of assault causing bodily harm, and Paolo Rego was additionally convicted of uttering threats.
Tenant's appeal of LTB eviction order quashed as devoid of merit and an abuse of process.
The tenant appealed an eviction order from the Landlord and Tenant Board for non-payment of rent.
The landlord brought a motion to quash the appeal and lift the automatic stay.
The Divisional Court found the appeal was manifestly devoid of merit and an abuse of process, as the tenant had paid no rent, provided no evidence, and abandoned the LTB hearing.
The appeal was quashed, the stay lifted, and the landlord was awarded substantial indemnity costs.
