COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO
DATE: 20251208
DOCKET: M56307 (COA-24-CV-0405)
Paciocco, George, and Monahan JJ.A.
BETWEEN
Jaymat Limited
Plaintiff (Respondent/Moving Party)
and
Gianluca Joseph Trichilo also known as Pino Trichilo also known as Joseph Trichilo, Pino Trichilo operating as Vivo Pizza and Pasta and Vivo Pizza Pasta Franchising Inc.
Defendant (Appellant/Responding Parties)
Kevin Sherkin and Mark De Sanctis, for the moving party
Jacob R.W. Damstra for the responding party
Heard: December 3, 2025
On review of the order of Justice Gary Trotter of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, dated September 10, 2025.
REASONS FOR DECISION
[1] The moving party, Jaymat, unsuccessfully sought the lifting of an automatic stay pending the responding parties’ appeal of a summary judgment in the amount of $2,100,000, plus interest. Jaymat seeks a panel review of the chambers judge’s order dismissing its motion for a lifting of the stay.
[2] At the conclusion of oral submissions, we advised that the review motion was dismissed with reasons to follow. These are our reasons.
[3] A panel review of a decision of a single judge of this Court pursuant to s. 7(5) of the Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43 is not a de novo determination: Machado v. Ontario Hockey Association, 2019 ONCA 210, at para. 9. Discretionary decisions of a chambers judge are entitled to deference. A reviewing panel may only intervene if the chambers judge erred in principle or reached an unreasonable result, or if the chambers judge’s decision reflects legal error or a misapprehension of material evidence: Hillmount Capital Inc. v. Pizale, 2021 ONCA 364, 92 C.B.R. (6th) 214, at para. 18.
[4] The chambers judge found that Jaymat’s position that the stay should be lifted because otherwise the responding parties would dissipate their assets to be speculative and not rooted in the evidence. This was a finding of fact that was open to the chambers judge on the record before him, and we see no basis upon which to interfere with it.
[5] Accordingly, it is unnecessary to consider Jaymat’s additional argument alleging that the chambers judge erred in finding that lifting the stay would result in a collateral attack on a previous court ruling in Florida.
[6] The review motion is dismissed. The responding parties are entitled to costs for both the motion before the chambers judge and this review motion in the total amount of $15,000 on an all-inclusive basis.
“David M. Paciocco J.A.”
“J. George J.A.”
“P.J. Monahan J.A.”