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The Government of Canada published today an Order in Council indefinitely suspending the implementation of the private right of action under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (or "CASL").

In August 2018, a fire at 650 Parliament Street in Toronto damaged two residential towers.

On July 16, 2018, Justice Edwards of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued his decision in Davies v. The Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington ...

British Columbia's Court of Appeal has said to use the 7th edition of the McGill Guide (the controversial one that did away with the punctuation people had come to know.

The Court of Appeal recently rendered a landmark decision which sets a key precedent for privacy class actions in Québec and Canada: the Court of Appeal confirmed the dismissal of the first privacy class action...

The Alberta Court of Appeal recently considered economic loss as it relates to a solicitor negligence claim.

In Hafichuk-Walkin v. BCE, the Manitoba Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's decision to unconditionally stay a class action commenced in Manitoba by Merchant Law Group in 2004.

BLG is pleased to announce that David Crerar, Partner and National Leader of the Firm's Defamation and Media Law Group, recently authored the book Mareva and Anton Piller...

The Ontario Divisional Court's decision in Kuiper v. Cook (Canada) Inc. offers the latest appellate determination on a debate about what, precisely, ...

In "the latest sequel or prequel in what has turned out to be the case law equivalent of a horror-movie franchise", Justice Perell struck 11 of 14 statutory claims for secondary market misrepresentation...

In its recent decision in Rooney v. ArcelorMittal S. A., the Ontario Court of Appeal clarified the scope of the civil cause of action for misrepresentations in a takeover bid circular, codified as section 131 of the Ontario Securities Act.

This case means that foreign judgment creditors must act quickly to seek enforcement of judgments in Ontario.

BLG was successful in having dismissed the Motion to Authorize a Class Action related to overlimit transactions and fees on credit cards

Litigation arose from the construction of offshore oil rigs and onshore processing facilities.

​This one is actually binding on a very small number of people, being an appeal from the Cayman Islands -- but given that it's a Privy Council decision, it's likely to be influential: Crawford Adjusters v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd, [2013] UKPC 17. The case arose from building works undertaken to repair hurricane damage.

The following is a synopsis of a presentation given at BLG’s Marketing Law News Flashes Conference held on February 28, 2013.

Hermann Goering, the founder of the Gestapo, acquired a portrait of a lady as Diana, wounded by Cupid, by the middling 18th-century painter Louis-Michel van Loo, in 1939.

Although advertising campaigns which use flashy representations to grab consumers’ attention might be effective, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") recently ruled that they might also entitle those consumers to compensatory and punitive damages against the merchant.