Pierre-Gabriel Grégoire

This application concerned the interpretation of a dispute resolution clause in a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) regarding the calculation of a post-closing working capital adjustment.

The core issue was whether the purchaser, Rester Ontario Investments Inc., was permitted to provide narrative written submissions to an independent accountant in response to the vendor's, Elad Canada Operations Inc., dispute notice.

The court determined that the interpretation of the SPA was a matter for the court, not the independent accountant.

It ruled that narrative submissions were permissible, provided they did not alter the original calculations, and set page limits for both Rester's submissions and Elad's reply.

The appellant, a teacher assistant, was convicted of assault for grabbing a seven-year-old boy by the throat.

On appeal, she argued the trial judge misapprehended evidence regarding video timestamps and erred in rejecting the defence of corrective force under s. 43 of the Criminal Code.

The court dismissed the appeal, finding that the timestamp evidence was not properly authenticated as real evidence, and even if it were, it did not render the verdict unreasonable.

The court also upheld the trial judge's rejection of the s. 43 defence, concluding that the force was applied out of anger and frustration, not for educative or corrective purposes, and therefore did not meet the requirements for justification under the section.