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ARTICLE · 12 JANUARY 2018

Mandatory Arbitration Isn't Always Mandatory In Canada

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WeirFoulds partner Nikiforos Iatrou and associate Anastasija Sumakova contributed to the Winter 2018 issue of Today's General Counsel with their article, "Mandatory Arbitration Isn't Always Mandatory in Canada".

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Nikiforos Iatrou
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WeirFoulds partner Nikiforos Iatrou and associate Anastasija Sumakova contributed to the Winter 2018 issue of Today's General Counsel with their article, "Mandatory Arbitration Isn't Always Mandatory in Canada".

The article examines how businesses could be dragged into consumer litigation even where they had sought to avoid such litigation with mandatory arbitration clauses. 

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