Under Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000 ("ESA"), employment contracts must comply with certain minimum standards regarding termination, including notice of termination or pay in lieu of notice.(Law 360)

The plaintiff ("Bentley Clothing") is the owner and exclusive licensee of three trademarks consisting of the word BENTLEY registered for use with clothing and headgear ("the Trademarks")

A creditor who loans money has a duty not to breach its contract or act "unconscionably" towards the guarantor or surety of the loan.

The Quebec Court of Appeal examined the scope of the powers of a judge overseeing the restructuring of a company pursuant to the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act.

A decision of the Federal Court deals with trademark use for both goods and services and provides an answer to the question raised above. GNR Travel Centre Ltd. v. CWI, Inc. 2023 FC 2...

Following are this week's summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 15, 2022.

On financing transactions that involve the calculation of interest, lenders and bondholders have typically included a provision (or, more usually, a formula) for calculating a "nominal" annual rate ...

The Court released two companion decisions in Markowich v. Lundin Mining Corporation and Peters v. SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. which addressed the meaning of "material change" in the "business, operations or capital" under...

The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal recently addressed what the government must do to ensure a fair process takes place before making an order transferring private land to a mining company.

In Price v. Smith & Wesson, the Court partially allowed the plaintiffs' appeal of a motion judge's decision to not certify their class action. The Court certified their negligence claim against a gun manufacturer...

A recent decision of the Federal Court deals with a statutory claim for passing off and the effect of a prior decision of the Trademark Opposition Board. Mainstreet properties Corp. v. Canadian Mortgage...

In Sakab Saudi Holding Company v Jabri, the respondents characterized their claim as an action in conspiracy to defraud. The appellants, who had no presence in Ontario, ...

Today, it's standard practice to obtain a litigation budget at the outset of a claim. This wasn't always the case.

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of December 15, 2025.

Canadian law with respect to choice of law and choice of forum favors party autonomy, particularly in international business-to-business contracting. In the contexts of these aspects of choice, only infrequently do Canadian courts act to limit party autonomy.

The Guarantees Acknowledgement Act (Alberta) has been amended to permit two-way video conferencing and counterpart execution for any certificate(s) required to be completed thereunder.

Mediation is now a well established legal practice1. The ambit of the mediation process is no longer confined to traditional contexts2

When a fraud is perpetrated in a lending transaction, the result is often that there are too few assets remaining to satisfy creditors, and those assets are subject to competing claims.

The central objective of contractual interpretation is to discover the parties' objective intentions as they existed at the time of the agreement. But under what circumstances ...

What better way to end our three-part series on employment law lessons learned from watching Netflix's Selling Sunset than to talk about romantic relationships in the workplace.