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It is common practice for defendants to enter into settlement negotiations with plaintiffs’ counsel before a proposed class action is authorized or certified.

On December 8, 2020, the Government of Alberta released new province-wide COVID-19 restrictions effective until at least January 12, 2021.

In June 2016 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had entered into two non-prosecution agreements (NPAs) with two unrelated companies whose foreign subsidiaries...

The trend in many recent pension cases has been to blindly apply strict trust law principles to pension plans funded through trusts. The June 22, 2006 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Buschau v. Rogers Communications Inc. suggests an easing of this strict approach.

On June 22, 2017, Bill C-44, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2017 and other measures (the Budget Act), received Royal Assent.

In a recent Osler Update, Mark Gelowitz, Robert Carson, and Lauren Harper discussed a recent Saskatchewan case denying certification against Facebook.

A Delaware judge dismissed a lawsuit on May 16 by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shareholders who had alleged the corporation's management had covered up and failed to properly investigate bribes paid by executives in Mexico...

Following up on the solvency funding relief for Alberta specified multi-employer pension plans, the Alberta government recently amended the Employment Pension Plans Regulation.

Even though post-retirement benefit (PRB) plans are not the same as registered pension plans, and are not subject to pension standards legislation, the recent arbitration decision.

The U.S. Department of Labor has released its long-awaited re-write of proposed changes to the rules determining who is a fiduciary under ERISA.

Last week, we began a blog post series that considers some of the common myths surrounding target benefit plans (TBPs).

On March 26, 2014, the New Brunswick legislature introduced for first reading Bill 51, An Act Respecting Members’ Pensions, which proposes to move Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to the shared risk pension plan currently available for other public sector employees in New Brunswick.

The Alberta Energy Regulator approved the Dover Commercial Project, a 250,000 barrel per day in situ oil sands project proposed by Brion Energy.

On March 28, 2012, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) published a Practice Notice entitled "Trade-mark Consisting of a Sound" which provides that, effective immediately, CIPO will accept applications for the registration of sound marks.

On June 12, 2008 the government of Canada introduced legislation to amend the “Copyright Act”.

While such an order is not novel, this ruling highlights the significance of the content of notices of appeal and cross-appeal.

For defendants, success is often bittersweet due to the costs of mounting a defence and the reputational harm caused by the plaintiff’s allegations.

In Sherry Good v. Toronto Police Services Board, the Ontario Divisional Court considered an appeal by the plaintiffs from the denial of certification of a proposed class action.