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Lavery
Quebec is a fertile ground for class actions, with over 550 active cases and between 50 to 100 applications for authorization filed each year. While 2023 marked the fifth anniversary...
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
In Pokornik v. SkipTheDishes Restaurant Services Inc, 2024 MBCA 3 (Pokornik), the Manitoba Court of Appeal held that the arbitration clause in a standard form agreement was unconscionable and unenforceable.
Strigberger Brown Armstrong LLP
In 2019 the legislature amended the SABS to confirm that the med/rehab limits are exclusive of HST. But when exactly is HST payable in accident benefits claims...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Class action defendants in British Columbia often have to contend with shifting certification records and evolving case theories.
McCague Borlack LLP
Case Comment: Loblaw Companies v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Co. 2024 ONCA 145, reversing in part 2022 ONSC 449
Gluckstein Personal Injury Lawyers
As a lawyer with practice focussed on sexual abuse and sexual assault, I'm used to feeling angry. Usually that anger is born out of hearing how an individual and/or institutional abuser has harmed a survivor...
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Following recent rulings in prominent cases such as Union des consommateurs v. Air Canada (Air Canada), Fortin v. Mazda Canada Inc. (Mazda)...
MLT Aikins LLP
The Ontario Court of Appeal shut down the claim that a hack of database constitutes intrusion upon seclusion by the database operator, along with shutting down various other causes of action at the certification stage of a proposed class action.
Miller Thomson LLP
On February 27, 2024, the Ontario Court of Appeal delivered its decision in Loblaw Companies Limited v. Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada, 2024 ONCA 145...
Dentons
Introducing the Dentons quarterly privacy litigation digest – your comprehensive review of privacy litigation developments impacting businesses across Canada. In each quarterly issue...
Dentons
The proliferation of privacy-related class actions in 2023 continued the trend of plaintiffs seeking recourse for data breaches affecting the personal information of customers...
Dentons
Le 19 février 2024, la Cour supérieure du Québec a rendu sa décision sur le fond de l'action collective Lussier c. Expedia inc. et al.
Dentons
On February 19, 2024, the Québec Superior Court issued its judgment on the merits of the class action Lussier v. Expedia, Inc. et al. At issue was the manner...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Canadian courts continue to rule on the enforceability of class action waiver clauses and arbitration clauses following Heller (summarized here).
Blaney McMurtry LLP
Every decade or so, a decision of monumental importance to the coverage bar gets handed to us. In 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada gave us Progressive Homes Ltd. v. Lombard General Insurance Co. of Canada.
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently released a decision that will be welcomed by companies seeking to maintain privilege over the results of internal investigations.
Dentons
A recent decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario upholding a decision denying certification of a data breach class action continues...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
A recent decision by the Court of Appeal for Ontario has revived a proposed class action alleging breach of fiduciary duty by investment advisors who failed to disclose a significant conflict of interest.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
In Lochan v. Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Court) dismissed a motion to stay a proposed class action in favour of arbitration. In making its decision...
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Les litiges délictuels de masse sont en hausse en Ontario, en raison des contestations de demandes d'autorisation d'actions collectives, des désaccords relatifs à la conduite d'instances qui se chevauchent et de l'influence des avocats des demandeurs.
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