Pepperdine Law School Professor Richard Cupp has posted on SSRN.com an article that is forthcoming in the Florida Law Review entitled Cognitively Impaired Humans, Intelligent Animals, and Legal Personhood.

In 2020, faced with statistics showing that nearly one in two women and three in ten men believed they had suffered sexual harassment or assault in the workplace...

When A Bankruptcy Occurs, The Creditors Play A Central Role In The Administrative Control Of The Bankrupt's Estate.

When a bankruptcy occurs, the creditors play a central role in the administrative control of the bankrupt’s estate.

Guidant Corporation Settles Charges Pertaining to License Violation: Guidant Corporation agreed to pay US$277,017 to settle allegations of violating the Iranian Transactions Regulations and Iraqi Sanctions Regulations between July 2000 and July 2004.

Two recent decisions of the Court of Appeal remind us of the duty on investment advisors and financial security advisors to know their client and the correlative duty of information.

In A Recent Decision, the Superior Court ruled in favour of GE, Commercial Distribution Finance Canada ("GE") in a dispute against The National Bank Of Canada ("NBC").

On February 24, 2012, the Autorité des marchés financiers published, on its website, a notice of consultation entitled Notice and Request and Comment on Internet Insurance Offerings in Québec.

Although the more nostalgic among us were recently celebrating the announcement of a third film (and sequel) of In a galaxy near you (Dans une galaxie près de chez vous)...

On June 1, 2023, the Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette, tabled and presented Bill 29 entitled An Act to protect consumers from planned obsolescence and to promote the durability, repairability and maintenance of goods ...

On April 17, 2012, the Honourable Marc Beauregard quashed in part the Superior Court decision rendered by the Honourable Pierre Journet dated June 11, 2010.

Recently, Justice Isabelle Germain of Quebec's Superior Court ruled on a case involving insurance fraud in the matter of Paul-Hus v. Sun Life Canada...

The purpose of the Unemployment Insurance Act 63 of 2001 is to provide financial assistance to employees who find themselves jobless.

On June 27, 2012 the British Columbia Court of Appeal issued its highly anticipated decision in the case William v. British Columbia

The Regulation specifying the new obligations of Bill 96 was published in the Gazette officielle du Québec on June 26, 2024.

The Centre’s mission is to "guarantee the protection of young people whose safety or development is compromised; help young people and young mothers experiencing adjustment difficulties to develop the skills and balance necessary to function in their environment; lead young people who have committed offences to put an end to their delinquent conduct and assume responsibility for themselves in society."

In recent months, several judgments concerning this area have been rendered and they shed some light, which is always welcome, on certain obligations imposed on merchants by the CPA.

On December 20, 2022, the federal government's Single-Use Plastics Prohibition Regulations1 (the "Regulations") gradually came into force, with the effect, as the name suggests...

The duty to inform is one of the main obligations sellers owe to their purchasers. This applies in the context of civil law, business law or consumer law.

The rules governing product liability set out in the Civil Code of Québec were introduced early in the 20th century in response to the industrial revolution and the growing number of workplace...