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The Ontario Court of Appeal, in a split decision, has held that a judge of Ontario's Superior Court of Justice, acting as a supervisory judge under a national class action settlement agreement...

The Alberta Court of King's Bench has introduced a pilot project aimed at moving non-family civil actions through the court system more expeditiously.

Carriage fights occur when overlapping class actions are commenced about the same alleged wrongdoing.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear five appeals in December that may interest the business community or organizations facing civil litigation.

Blockchain, the peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology introduced in 2008 to support Bitcoin, has lately attracted attention for its potential uses in areas unrelated to the virtual currency.

Bennett Jones welcomed the opportunity to present a practical, opportunity and risk focused approach to the governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI)...,

As has become its customary practice at this time of the year, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has published its trade verification (audit) priorities for the coming year.

In the United States and internationally, some unfamiliar questions are being asked about the role of competition policy in the global economy.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia's recent December 2023 decision in MacKinnon v Pfizer Canada Inc. (MacKinnon) illustrates that certifying a national class action against product manufacturers...

Change is coming to Ontario's Real Estate Business Brokers Act, 2002 (REBBA), and March 15, 2019, is your last chance to chime in.

Earlier this month a proposed class action was filed in Montreal by the Consumer Law Group alleging that Merck, Shering-Plough and Daiichi Sankyo provided inadequate warnings...

As detailed in last week's round-up, the COVID-19 pandemic has already led to a flurry of class actions in the United States and, to a lesser extent, in Canada.

The pace of new class actions in Canada remains comparatively slower than in the United States

The number of COVID-19 related class proceeding and analogous claims continues to rise, with the number of actions in the United States approaching 300 and claims in Canada nearing 20.

On April 8, 2020, the federal government announced an intent to amend the Output-Based Pricing System Regulations, SOR/2019-266 (OBPS Regulations), enacted under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act...

The effective date for all private companies governed by the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (BCA) ...

It is an understatement to say that COVID-19 has interrupted business operations across all sectors.

With the beginning of the Supreme Court of Canada's Winter Session on January 8, the Supreme Court of Canada entered a new era following the retirement of former Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin and the appointment of Chief Justice Richard Wagner.