ArticleBad News For Sports Fans Is Good News For AdvertisersWith less than a month until Super Bowl LIV, football fans are looking forward to the big game. CanadaMedia, Telecoms, IT, EntertainmentAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleCourt Of Appeal Smokes Rescission Finding In Grow-Op CaseThe Court of Appeal for Ontario recently rejected a home buyer's attempt to rescind a real estate deal on the grounds that the house in question had previously been used as a marijuana grow-op.CanadaReal Estate and ConstructionAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
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ArticleRecent New York Court Decision Confirms That Email Exchanges Can Create Enforceable AgreementsCourts in New York, as elsewhere, encourage litigants and their counsel to reach agreements on the conduct and resolution of litigations.United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationMilbank
ArticleThe Litigator - September 2018Shortly after his election in June 2018, Ontario Premier Doug Ford convinced his colleagues in the Ontario Legislature to pass Bill 5, a law reducing the size of Toronto City Council from 47 wards to 25 to match Provincial and Federal ridings.CanadaLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticlePam Greene Interviewed On Regulation A+Mintz Levin Partner Pam Greene was interviewed on Friday by Law360 regarding the advent of Regulation A+ and its anticipated impact on capital-raising by smaller companies.United StatesCorporate/Commercial LawMintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
ArticleFailure To Disclose Fees On Investment Accounts Can Be A Breach Of Fiduciary DutyOn February 28, 2020, a judge of the Ontario Superior Court granted judgment in a class action and awarded an accounting of the profits realized by three Bank of Montreal subsidiaries on approximately $102.9 million ...CanadaLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleInjunctions Available To Enforce Foreign Arbitral Awards, BC Court SaysThe New York Convention permits parties to arbitrations to enforce arbitral awards in any contracting state, including Canada.CanadaLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleTied Pub Regulation Upheld By Court Of SessionOn 7 July 2023, the Inner House (First Division) issued its opinion in an appeal brought by Greene King against a 2022 judgment of Lord Harrower rejecting its judicial review challenge...United KingdomReal Estate and ConstructionShepherd and Wedderburn
ArticleCompetition Bureau Documents Privileged From Disclosure To PlaintiffsDocuments and information that the Competition Bureau collects from third parties during its investigations are protected by public interest privilege from disclosure to plaintiffs in private actions, the BC Supreme Court has ruled.CanadaAntitrust/Competition LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleEffort To Examine Competition Bureau Runs Out Of Gas At Supreme CourtThe Crown, including the Competition Bureau and its investigators, is immune from examinations for discovery in litigation in which it is not a party, the Supreme Court of Canada held.CanadaAntitrust/Competition LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleRogers Fined $500,000 For Not Testing Claim About Dropped CallsWe first reported in August 2013 that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that Rogers’ advertising claims that customers of its Chatr brand experienced fewer dropped calls than customers of new entrants, including Wind Mobile and Public Mobile, were not false or misleading in our article Court Drops Misleading Advertising Case Against Rogers. CanadaAntitrust/Competition LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleSupreme Court Class Action Decision In GodfreyThis is not to say that umbrella purchasers' actions will not be complex or otherwise difficult to pursue.CanadaAntitrust/Competition LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleTekSavvy Claims That Bell And Rogers Abuse Their Dominant Position For Internet ServicesIn a public version of its complaint to the Canadian Competition Commissioner.CanadaAntitrust/Competition LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleProposed Shareholder Class Action Stayed Due To Lack Of JurisdictionA proposed shareholder class action against HSBC Holdings plc was recently stopped in its tracks by the Ontario Superior Court due to a lack of jurisdiction.CanadaCorporate/Commercial LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleSecurities Class Action: Court Of Appeal Clarifies Public Correction RequirementsIn a decision released early this month in Terry Longhair Professional Corporation v. Akumin Inc., Ontario's Court of Appeal upheld the decision of Madam Justice Akbarali...CanadaCorporate/Commercial LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleSuperior Court Clarifies That Unmet Shareholder Expectations Do Not Always Amount To OppressionIn 2013, two physicians, Michael Pazaratz ("Pazaratz") and Saeed Darvish-Kazem ("Darvish-Kazem"), ventured out of the medical industry to start a software company, Rave Inc. ("Rave").CanadaCorporate/Commercial LawAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleTemporary Workers, Interns Given New ProtectionsTemporary workers, unpaid interns and foreign nationals will soon be better protected under amendments to Ontario’s employment laws. Employees will also be able to recover more of their unpaid wages from employers without going to court.CanadaEmployment and HRAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP
ArticleAmendments To The Rules Of Civil Procedure Bring Overdue Modernization To Ontario CourtsWhen it comes to the courts and COVID-19, necessity has definitely been the mother of invention. Same thing for litigation practice generally.CanadaLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationAffleck Greene McMurtry LLP