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You don't have to be independently wealthy to be a target of investment fraud. The only real prerequisite is that you have some money available for investment.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses were struggling. The federal government implemented various programs to assist and support Canadian businesses that were suffering...

In recent years, Canada has faced criticism for a perceived lack of anti-corruption enforcement. Much has been written about this, including in our Risk Blog...

On April 29, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) upheld archival and personal immunities of an international organization (the World Bank Group) and its anti-corruption investigators.

The employer asserted just cause on the basis of an alleged fraud.

A recent Ontario decision dealt with the issue of liability as between two defrauded employers: is a past employer liable to a new employer when a fraudulent employee steals money from the latter to satisfy its debt to the former?

On December 23, 2023, the federal government published draft regulations that propose important exemptions from the application of the criminal rate of interest cap...

When a bank’s customer is suspected of defrauding someone, a court may compel the bank to disclose the customer’s confidential financial records to the victim. In most circumstances, the suspected wrongdoer will not be informed that its financial information has been revealed.

Pursuant to Section 347 of the Criminal Code, an effective annual interest rate that exceeds 60% of the total credit advanced under an agreement or arrangement is a criminal rate.

In Teva Canada Ltd. v. TD Canada Trust, the Supreme Court of Canada considered the defence to the tort of conversion under s. 20(5) of the Bills of Exchange Act.

The Defendant was a dentist who had executed a personal guarantee on July 7, 2011 in favour of the Plaintiff (the "Bank") in order to secure payment of the indebtedness of the Defendant's professional

A recent decision of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the "Commissioner"), finding that analyzing a customer's credit rating does little to help counter insurance fraud...

Heated debate over the future of business-related patents in North America continues. North of the border, innovative businesses await the outcome of argument recently heard by Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal in the Amazon.com appeal, with a decision (and likely an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada) expected within weeks.

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline plc announced that its Chinese subsidiary had been found guilty of bribing health officials in the country.

In McCorquodale v RBC Global Asset Management Inc., 2021 BCSC 144, the British Columbia Supreme Court relied on the principle of consistency in case law in applying a low bar to certification...

TD bank successfully defended an action brought against it by a customer in a Ponzi scheme case in McDonald and Dickson v. TD Bank, 2021 ONSC 3872.

On November 23, 2005, Justice R.J. Smith of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a claim brought by two registered representatives, Derek King ("King") and William Crook ("Crook"), against their former employer, Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. ("Merrill Lynch").