What is the summary judgment process?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Mukwa v. Farm Credit Canada, 2021 ONSC 1632 (CanLII):

The summary judgment process here provides me with the evidence required to fairly and justly adjudicate the dispute, and is a timely, affordable and proportionate procedure: Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 87, at para. 66.

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