What is the test for specific performance of a property?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from McLaughlin v. Canadian Service Management Inc., 2018 ONSC 1937 (CanLII):

Specific performance should not be granted as a matter of course, absent evidence that the property is unique to the extent that its substitute would not be readily available: Semelhago v. Paramadevan, 1996 CanLII 209 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 415, at para. 22.

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