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As with most scenarios within Family Law, there are various approaches your family lawyer can adopt to ensure an amicable outcome.

Access to justice is a fundamental principle of our legal system, yet for many Ontarians, it is often constrained by financial and temporal realities. Legal fees, administrative costs, and the length of lawsuits can often deter individuals and businesses from pursuing their claims in the courts.

In the recent Excalibur Special Opportunities LP v Schwartz Levitsky Feldman LLP decision, a majority of the Ontario Divisional Court upheld the ruling of Justice Perell denying certification of a proposed global class action...

Interlocutory or interim injunctions are attractive to plaintiffs because the grant of an injunction often ends the litigation, at much less cost than a full-blown trial. Pharma cases are no exception.

There are very few things in the legal profession that have hard and fast rules, but privilege is certainly one of them.

In 2015, Specialized Desanders sued Dynacorp Fabricators (now Enercorp Sand Solutions) and Progress Energy Canada for infringement of Canadian Patent No, 2,407,544

In British Columbia, courts rarely exercise their discretion to grant leave to cross-examine prior to certification.

In the context of this class action, the Quebec Superior Court recently granted a request to split the action, thereby splitting the trial into two stages...

In Schwilgin v. Szivy, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed a self-represented litigant's request for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal, after the litigant incorrectly had appealed an order to the Divisional Court.

The Federal Court of Appeal recently upheld limits on the Competition Bureau's investigative powers, ruling that production orders under the Competition Act must be reasonable in scope and cannot be excessively broad or burdensome. This decision arose from the Bureau's investigation into Amazon's handling of fake product reviews, where the court rejected a data request covering billions of products as insufficiently justified and disproportionate.

The British Columbia Supreme Court recently reviewed the considerations to be applied on an application by a secured creditor to lift a stay of proceedings granted in an initial order under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (the "CCAA").

The analysis of the case for enforcement against Chevron Canada will be of interest to multinationals with business in Canada in terms of considering whether they would be able to demonstrate the requisite separation of assets and operations.

Court-appointed receivers, monitors and trustees in Canadian insolvency proceedings hold a unique position as officers of the court. A fundamental question arises in Alberta practice: under what circumstances may parties cross-examine these court officers on the contents of their reports? Alberta courts have established clear principles governing when such examination is permitted and the stringent requirements parties must meet to justify questioning these neutral insolvency professionals.

On April 12, 2011, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released its decision in "Bulldog Bag Ltd. v. AXA Pacific Insurance Co." (2011).

Below are our summaries of key decisions and advisories that will impact intellectual property litigation in Canada.

Much has been written or said about the Supreme Court of Canada recent decisions in Infineon Technologies and Vivendi Canada.

In the past several years, administrative dismissal orders have become a routine existence, if not an annoyance, at various stages of the litigation process.