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On January 6, 2025, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will resign, and that Governor General Mary Simon agreed to prorogue Parliament until March 24, 2025.

In an unprecedented intervention by the European Commission (EC), the EC recently asserted jurisdiction over and challenged a United States-based merger that falls below the filing thresholds of the EC...

Quarterly reporting has historically been a bedrock of public issuer disclosure in Canada and the United States. It may not be going forward.

Mariah Carey wrote and recorded one of the world's most well known Christmas songs, ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU. Originally released in 1994, it has become a staple of holiday...

In recent months and years, considerable attention has been paid to the complexities of cross-border data transfers. Variability in international standards has added to the compliance costs...

The South African Competition Commission has since the beginning of 2017 prohibited eleven intermediate mergers and has recommended that four large mergers be prohibited.

The Compensation Commissioner has issued the Notice on Compensation for Occupationally-Acquired Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) to clarify the position of the Compensation Fund with regards to occupationally-acquired Covid-19.

The title of this email note would appear to be an obvious truism, but it was one that recently came to hurt an employer resulting in the reinstatement some four years later of 17 employees dismissed for allegedly participating in an unprotected strike.

For many a human resources manager and in-house legal counsel, the language of the resolution taken at a board meeting or recorded in the minutes of that meeting in respect of the need to embark upon a retrenchment exercise is a cause for concern.

Covid-19 is spreading, and the mass hysteria and panic buying, are causing irreparable damage to the global economy.

On January 24, 2025, the Pretoria High Court declared six regulations governing the SRD grant unconstitutional and invalid.

On 1 September 2023, a major South African pharmaceutical company ("the Company") was issued with an Enforcement Notice by the Information Regulator of South Africa.

Lord Hoffmann, sitting in the Court of Appeal, has explained and limited the scope of "Biogen insufficiency" with the result that an ordinary product claim in a patent will be sufficiently enabled even if the specification teaches only one method of making it.

On March 18, 2020, the Commissioner of Competition issued an open letter to the executive members of the Canadian Bar Association's Competition Law Section.

The CEOs at top tech companies have received attention over their policies allowing employees to work from home.

In a major legal win for Canadian agribusiness innovation, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has successfully defended its intellectual property rights in the United States over the Staccato cherry, a late-ripening variety developed in Summerland, British Columbia.

On February 24, 2012, the Superior Court rendered Québec's first decision on the application of the new provisions of the Securities Act (the "Act") regarding secondary market liability (http://www.fasken.com/files/upload/500-09-022519-128_Arrêt_C.A_THERA.pdf (PDF available in French only)). The decision authorized the plaintiff to bring an action for damages pursuant to section 225.4 of the Act by means of a class action.