{"id":8916,"date":"2022-06-23T21:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2023-02-07T08:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T13:36:47","slug":"court-of-appeal-confirms-residential-landlord-permitted-to-pursue-tenant-damage-claims-in-small-claims-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-confirms-residential-landlord-permitted-to-pursue-tenant-damage-claims-in-small-claims-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal Confirms Residential Landlord Permitted to Pursue Tenant Damage Claims in Small Claims Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This recent case expands on my earlier decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onscsm\/doc\/2021\/2021canlii48732\/2021canlii48732.html\"><em>Dick v. Robinson<\/em>, 2021 CanLII 48732<\/a> and my recent post entitled \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/landlord-permitted-to-pursue-tenant-damage-claim-in-small-claims-court\/\">Landlord Permitted to Pursue Tenant Damage Claim in Small Claims Court<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This latest appellate case illustrates the continuing controversy over the jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court to render judgment in residential landlord and tenant matters.\u00a0 It also confirms my ruling, and the ruling in <em>Valiant Rental Properties Ltd. v Paulauskas<\/em>, 2022 CanLII 1996, to the effect that the Small Claims Court has jurisdiction to hear landlord\u2019s claims for utility arrears and premises damage if the tenant was no longer in the premises, provided the claim was commenced before September 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>in this recent case, the Court of Appeal had to intervene and overrule both a lower court and Divisional court appeal decision that effectively held that there was no such jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, however, the Court of Appeal did not squarely address whether the outcome would be different if the landlord&#8217;s Small Claims Court recovery claim was brought after the legislative changes that came into force on September 1, 2021.\u00a0 My decision in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onscsm\/doc\/2021\/2021canlii48732\/2021canlii48732.html\">Dick v. Robinson<\/a><\/em> concluded that if a Landlord commenced their claim on or after September 1, 2021, the Small Claims Court would no longer have jurisdiction, and such claims would have to be brought before the Landlord and Tenant Board.\u00a0 It would have been ideal if the Court of Appeal squarely addressed this issue, but they did not.\u00a0 The appellate court did, however, offer this <em>obiter dicta<\/em> (ie: side comment) found in footnote 3, which read as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cWe need not decide whether the LTB would have had jurisdiction over an identical claim had it originated after September 1, 2021. We would be remiss, however, in failing to caution that the amendments and transitional provisions in the <em>Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act, 2020 <\/em>may have supported a different outcome in such circumstances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As such, it seems that the Ontario Court of Appeal is leaning to the same conclusion I arrived at in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onscsm\/doc\/2021\/2021canlii48732\/2021canlii48732.html\">Dick v. Robinson<\/a>: namely, if such claims are started on or after September 1, 2021, they will be ousted from the Small Claims Court for lack of jurisdiction because they should be brought before the Landlord and Tenant Board who retains exclusive jurisdiction over such matters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kiselman v. Klerer<\/em><\/strong>, 2022 ONCA 489<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2022\/2022onca489\/2022onca489.html\">https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2022\/2022onca486\/2022onca486.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent case expands on my earlier decision in Dick v. Robinson, 2021 CanLII 48732 and my recent post entitled \u201cLandlord Permitted to Pursue Tenant Damage Claim in Small Claims Court.\u201d This latest appellate case illustrates the continuing controversy over the jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court to render judgment in residential landlord and tenant&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-confirms-residential-landlord-permitted-to-pursue-tenant-damage-claims-in-small-claims-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court of Appeal Confirms Residential Landlord Permitted to Pursue Tenant Damage Claims in Small Claims Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[130,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-and-tenant","category-small-claims-court","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court of Appeal Confirms Residential Landlord Permitted to Pursue Tenant Damage Claims in Small Claims Court - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ontario Court of Appeal confirms that residential tenant damage claims should be brought in Small Claims Court if commenced on or before September 1, 2021.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-confirms-residential-landlord-permitted-to-pursue-tenant-damage-claims-in-small-claims-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court of Appeal Confirms Residential Landlord Permitted to Pursue Tenant Damage Claims in Small Claims Court - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ontario Court of Appeal confirms that residential tenant damage claims should be brought in Small Claims Court if commenced on or before September 1, 2021.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/court-of-appeal-confirms-residential-landlord-permitted-to-pursue-tenant-damage-claims-in-small-claims-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-24T01:27:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-07T13:36:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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