When should a successor company be forced to pay an advance on legal fees to predecessor shareholders whom the successor company is suing?

Neither Mann nor James had a non-solicitation clause in their employment agreements with NBF.

In Hashemi-Sabet Estate v. Oak Ridges Pharmasave Inc., 2018 ONCA 839, the Ontario Court of Appeal recently considered the principles relating to the enforcement of an accepted Rule 49 offer to settle.

In last week's post, we highlighted the trend in favour of certification of undisclosed fees class actions which was recently continued by the British Columbia Court of Appeal's decision ...

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently affirmed the Superior Court's decision in Kanak v. Riggin that statements made in an employment reference are protected by qualified privilege, regardless of...

This is our third blog post on the ongoing saga of the Ecuadorian villagers' attempts to enforce an Ecuadorian judgement against Chevron Canada Limited ("Chevron Canada") in Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation.

If you watch American legal dramas and then find yourself observing a Canadian court proceeding, you might be understandably disappointed that instead of this

The Court of Appeal recently overturned a summary judgment awarded in favour of Mr. Sub franchisees for reputational harm stemming from the 2008 listeriotic outbreak.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario recently released its decisions in six appeals regarding Ontario's Anti-SLAPP legislation.

The motion judge, Justice Conway, refused to grant the partial stay.

The rules are in code. Here's how to crack the code.

I was not an early adopter of ChatGPT because my older brother knows the answers to most of my questions and he has been just a phone call away. Don't tell him, but I have now uploaded and use the AI app instead...

The Globe and Mail has suggested that the fall of the Fortress group of companies "could become Canada's largest syndicated mortgage failure", as "[b]etween 2008 and 2017, Fortress … raised a staggering $920 million ...

In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Court found that a motion judge erred in awarding partial summary judgment and dismissing a professional negligence claim against a law firm.

In a pair of recent decisions, the Ontario Court of Appeal provided further guidance on the correct approach to the "valid defence" analysis under the anti-SLAPP provisions of section 137.1 of the Courts of Justice Act.

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently considered the doctrine of frustration in the context of a real estate transaction in Perkins v. Sheikhtavi, 2019 ONCA 925 ("Perkins").

Every law firm's Twitter account, Babin Bessner Spry included, has a standard list of follows: colleagues, other firms, bar associations, other legal associations like TLA and the Advocates' Society.

In a recent decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal set aside a partial summary judgment for fraud.

Under what circumstances can a motion judge decide a contested factual issue using the expanded fact-finding powers under rule 20.04(2.1) of the Rules of Civil Procedure (the "Rules") ...

The annual enforcement report of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) showed a huge jump in complaints at mutual fund dealers...