In its recent decision in Vale Canada Limited v. Royal and SunAlliance Insurance Company of Canada, Ontario's top court confirmed what a layperson would think...

The Supreme Court of Canada in Mennillo v. Intramodal Inc. held that a small, closely held corporation's failure to comply with some of the requirements under the CBCA ...

The European Commission has found that two German producers of automotive parts, Eberspächer and Webasto, have breached Article 101.

The House Appropriations Committee seems poised to stick to the FY25 budget caps set out in the McCarthy-Biden debt limit agreement from 2023.

The plaintiffs in these class actions claim that rules established by the Visa and MasterCard networks constitute a conspiracy to fix the fees that merchants pay, contrary to section 45 of the Competition Act.

Google and Apple are the targets of the first ever private claim for compensation before the Competition Tribunal, in a proposed application that raises allegations...

On Thursday, September 19, the Canadian government announced a new plan for national securities regulation.

In a decision released on May 24, 2023 in Markowich v. Lundin Mining, the Court of Appeal for Ontario overturned a Superior Court of Justice decision refusing leave to proceed under Part XXIII.1 of the Securities Act ...

Mark Lowman and Dave Jarrett made a website for a new company created for a waste to energy project that planned to be listed on the stock exchange in the future.

In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2023 BCCA 373 (CanLII), the British Columbia Court of Appeal affirmed the lower court's decision that the employee's surreptitious...

In Harrington Global Opportunities Fund S.A.R.I. and Harrington Global Inc. ("Harrington") v. Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, Justice Perell largely foreclosed the possibility of wronged investors ...

A key value in any free and democratic society is the principle that no one is above the law. In democracies, even the government can be required by the Courts to pay compensation to persons harmed by negligent or intentional government actions.

The Supreme Court of Canada has finally weighed-in and decided that the Ontario government was within its rights to make those changes in Toronto (City) v. Ontario (Attorney General).

In Marrone v Ontario Securities Commission, 2024 ONSC 4750, the Ontario Divisional Court recently upheld a 2023 decision of the Ontario Securities Commission...

In a pair of companion decisions released on May 24, 2023 the Court of Appeal for Ontario respectively overturned and upheld Superior Court of Justice decisions refusing leave to proceed...

The Supreme Court recently redefined the requirements to establish the tort of civil fraud (or tort of deceit).

In December 2019, a Superior Court judge awarded damages for the first time for a new privacy tort ("Publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye") in Yenovkian v. Gulian, 2019 ONSC 7279.

A choice of forum clause will generally not be enforced against a non-party to the contract containing the clause, the Ontario Court of Appeal held recently.

For those seeking some PTAB-related CLE this month, don't miss today's one-hour briefing, entitled: PTAB 2021 – Targeting a Moving Target. Practising Law Institute is presenting the program today at 1pm (EST).

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