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After a dramatic and tragic incident in which a large drill rig fell over at York University, fatally injuring a backhoe operator and badly injuring an excavator operator, the company that owned and operated the rig...

We can formally define fraud as a form of intentional deceit or a breach of confidence, perpetrated to gain profit or dishonest advantage.

When an organization – including a corporation, a company or a partnership – is found guilty of a criminal offence, section 718.21 of the Criminal Code requires a court to take a number of factors into consideration when determining the fine, including:

The 2015 conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), one of the most influential annual resources sector meetings in the world, is scheduled for the Metro Toronto Convention Centre March 1 – 4.

Canadian courts took another step in further opening the country's courts to civil claims by foreign victims of alleged human rights abuses against Canadian corporations for acts committed abroad.

After a quiet first decade, Canadian authorities are stepping up enforcement of Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

Remediation Agreements are a welcome development in Canadian white-collar enforcement.

This long-awaited announcement follows a formal public consultation.

In a judgment handed down on May 30th, Global Fuels Inc. ("Global") was ordered to stand trial on the charge of having conspired to fix the price of gas in breach of the Competition Act (R.S.C. (1985), ch. C-34).

The Government of Canada's revised Ineligibility and Suspension Policy (Ineligibility Policy), which came into effect on May 31, 2024, expands the circumstances under which vendors...

Remediation agreements, known as deferred prosecution agreements in the United States and United Kingdom, are a new tool for enforcing and resolving corporate crime in Canada.

On Sept. 18, Sylvain Fournier, a Quebec based contractor, was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by two years of probation.

In a landmark decision released in January 2016, the Ontario Court sentenced a project manager to 3.5 years in prison in relation to a scaffold collapse...

Rarely are senior corporate officials jailed for health and safety offences in Canada.

On September 9, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates of the United States Department of Justice issued a memorandum entitled "Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing".

The RCMP recently announced a rising trend of companies self-reporting potential acts of bribery and corruption.

With the growing sophistication and globalization of corporations, countries are increasingly looking for new methods to combat and prosecute corporate crime.

The Canadian Government has announced that it will be moving forward, albeit slowly, with a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) system