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Ontario's Top Court Finds School Board Not Liable In Bullying Claim

In Rizzuto v. Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School Board, 2025 ONCA 773 (Rizzuto), the Court of Appeal for Ontario affirmed the dismissal of a negligence claim...

Canada Litigation

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Service Of Process: More Than A Formality

Plaintiffs usually start lawsuits by serving the defendant personally with a statement of claim. While personal service is the "gold standard," Ontario's Rules of Civil Procedure permit alternative...

Canada Litigation

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Cassels

The Canadian Class Actions Handbook

Bennett Jones partners Michael Eizenga, Pascale Dionne-Bourassa and Katherine Booth have co-authored The Canadian Class Actions Handbook, published by LexisNexis.

Canada Litigation

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Bennett Jones LLP

What To Do If You Have Been Bitten By A Dog

If you are like almost 40 per cent of Canadians, you own a dog. According to Agriculture Canada, the dog population in this country was around 8.3 million in 2024.

Canada Litigation

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Gluckstein Lawyers

Ontario Court Of Appeal Upholds Enforcement Of German Judgment Despite Arbitration Clause

Canada Litigation

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Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP

ONCA Affirms Denial Of Claim For Earn-Out Acceleration

Canada Litigation

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Bennett Jones LLP

Appealing Briefs – Episode 25: Sinclair: Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendants In Canadian Courts (Podcast)

Canada Litigation

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

What British Columbia Residents Need To Know About Participating In Class Actions

Canada Litigation

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Siskinds LLP

Arbitrage ou recours aux tribunaux en cas d'insolvabilité?

Canada Litigation

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Miller Thomson LLP

Court Of Appeal Summaries (December 31 – January 9)

Canada Litigation

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Blaney McMurtry LLP

When Price Drops Prove Too Much: Rethinking Materiality In Secondary Market Misrepresentation Class Actions

Canada Litigation

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Lenczner Slaght LLP

Class Action Pursued Concerning Safety Defects With GLP-1 Drugs Mounjaro, Trulicity, & Zepbound

Canada Litigation

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Siskinds LLP

Getting Leave To The Supreme Court Of Canada: 2025 By The Numbers

Canada Litigation

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Lenczner Slaght LLP

When Is A Decision Subject To Judicial Review?

Canada Litigation

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Torkin Manes LLP

2025: The Year In Review In Employment Law

Canada Employment

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Cassels

Vicarious Liability Action Against Employer Of Defendant Struck As Vexatious (Jones-Moore v. Moore)

Canada Employment

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Gardiner Roberts LLP

Selling Ticket Seats Or Subscriptions In Québec? Bill 10 Changes The Conditions Of Entry

Canada Media & IT

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Gowling WLG

Canadian Media vs. OpenAI: Ontario Court Gives A Procedural Greenlight

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Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP

Bill 60 Becomes Law – Updated On The Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025

Canada Real Estate

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McMillan LLP

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Disclosure & Electronic Discovery & Privilege

When Is An Accountant's Work Privileged In Canada: Protecting Accountants' Work In Tax Matters, Including Litigation

The British Columbia Supreme Court decision in Lewis v. WestJet Airlines Ltd. (2025 BCSC 1565) clarifies the circumstances under which accountants' work may be protected by legal privilege.

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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.

Tax Court Rejects The CRA's Attempt To Obtain Documents Protected By Solicitor-Client Privilege: Stack v The King, 2024 TCC 137

In Stack v The King, 2024 TCC 137, the Tax Court of Canada blocked the Canada Revenue Agency's attempt to obtain various documents, including an email record, that were protected by solicitor-client privilege.

Canada Litigation

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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.

Saskatchewan Joins The Majority Of Canadian Provinces In Passing Franchise Disclosure Legislation

On June 30, 2026, Saskatchewan will become the seventh Canadian province to bring into force franchise disclosure legislation, joining Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Manitoba.

Canada Commercial

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Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP

Selective Disclosure = Full Exposure: BC Court Expands Privilege Waiver In Coverage Case

Canada Litigation

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CLC (Canadian Litigation Counsel)

AI Notetaking In The Legal And Business Context: Does It Risk Confidentiality Or Privilege?

Canada Technology

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Bennett Jones LLP

Be Careful What You Waive: Partial Disclosure Of Privileged Documents Can Create Unintended Consequences

Canada Insurance

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MLT Aikins LLP

Sexual Abuse Survivors Beware — The Defamation Risk

Canada Litigation

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Lerners LLP

Protecting Privilege In Privacy Breach Investigations: 2025 Privacy Breach Insights – Part 4

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Lawyer Did Not Breach Privilege By Disclosing Confidential Email To Former Clients' Trustee In Bankruptcy (Milot Law v. Sittler)

Canada Insolvency

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Gardiner Roberts LLP

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Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Ontario Court Of Appeal Upholds Enforcement Of German Judgment Despite Arbitration Clause

The Ontario Court of Appeal in Hilmer Motorsport GmbH v. Mason, 2025 ONCA 875 upheld the recognition and enforcement of a foreign default judgment obtained in Germany.

Canada Litigation

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Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP

Arbitrage ou recours aux tribunaux en cas d'insolvabilité?

L'opposition entre l'exécution des conventions d'arbitrage et les impératifs d'efficacité du modèle de la procédure unique demeure l'un des défis majeurs du droit moderne en matière de restructuration.

Canada Litigation

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Miller Thomson LLP

Dispute Resolution Clauses Matter More Than You Think: Avoiding Costly Mistakes In Commercial Contracts

In the fast-paced world of commercial transactions, parties tend to focus on substantive deal terms—price, scope of work, deliverables, and timelines—while giving comparatively little attention to dispute resolution.

Canada Commercial

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Miller Thomson LLP

Camino Construction v Graham Construction: Three Routes To A Stay Of Lien Proceedings

Canada Real Estate

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Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP

Court Of Appeal Summaries (December 15 – 19, 2025)

Worldwide Litigation

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Blaney McMurtry LLP

Contracting Out Of Accountability? When Crypto Meets Canadian Courtroom Control

Canada Litigation

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Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP

Comity And Crypto: Court Blocks Binance's Arbitration Gambit

Canada Litigation

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Torys LLP

No Ostrich Defence To Recognition Of Foreign Judgment

Canada Litigation

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Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP

Sentences arbitrales : La Cour d'appel de la C.-B. confirme qu'un délai de 30 jours s'applique aussi aux appels incidents

Canada Litigation

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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

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Court Procedure

Getting Leave To The Supreme Court Of Canada: 2025 By The Numbers

As part of Lenczner Slaght's Data-Driven Decisions program, our readers know we maintain a comprehensive database capturing every Supreme Court of Canada leave decision since January 1, 2018.

Canada Litigation

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Lenczner Slaght LLP

Court Of Appeal Summaries (December 22-29, 2025)

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of December 22.

Canada Litigation

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Blaney McMurtry LLP

The Future Of Civil Litigation In Ontario: Inside The Final Policy Report From The Civil Rules Review

We have closely tracked the Civil Rules Review Working Group and its mandate to overhaul Ontario's civil justice process.

Canada Litigation

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Lenczner Slaght LLP

Ontario Rule 7 Changes: Important Updates For Litigation Guardians And Counsel Of Record

Canada Litigation

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Gowling WLG

Lawyer Not Required To Produce Alleged Will Drafting File: Further Production Denied (Nouini v. Pizzi)

Canada Litigation

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Gardiner Roberts LLP

Court Of Appeal Summaries (December 8 – 12, 2025)

Canada Litigation

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Blaney McMurtry LLP

Court Of Appeal Summaries (November 24 – 28, 2025)

Canada Litigation

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Blaney McMurtry LLP

Motions To Strike In Ontario: A Narrow Tool, Often Overused

Canada Commercial

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Gowling WLG

It's The Final Countdown! The Basic And Ultimate Limitation Periods

Canada Litigation

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Lesperance Mendes Lawyers

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Sovereign Immunity: Public Sector Government

Draft Regulations Introduced To Enforce The Accessibility For Manitobans Act

The Manitoba government has released draft regulations that would, for the first time, introduce a formal enforcement and penalty regime under The Accessibility for Manitobans Act (AMA).

Canada Government

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Taylor McCaffrey

A New Framework For Procurement: Ontario Unveils Buy Ontario Act

Given the unstable global business climate, and the ongoing trade negotiations with the United States, governments across the globe are looking for ways to shelter domestic industries and workers.

Canada Government

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Defence Win In Nydam v. Cunningham: Jury Finds No Liability

After a four-week trial in Nydam v. Cunningham, the jury returned a verdict of no liability, resulting in a complete dismissal of the action.

Canada Litigation

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DWF Group

What Are We Waiting For? A Cautionary Endorsement On Timing, Process, And Priority Of Lien Claims Caught In An Insolvency

Canada Insolvency

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WeirFoulds LLP

Conflit d'intérêts dans l'administration d'une succession : ce que l'affaire Virdi Estate (Re) enseigne aux exécuteurs testamentaires

Canada Litigation

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Miller Thomson LLP

Here's The Drill: R. v. Sudbury Wrap-Up: Essential Takeaways For Construction Stakeholders

Canada Litigation

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WeirFoulds LLP

Due Diligence Delivered: The End Of The Saga For R V Greater Sudbury (City)

Canada Employment

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Class Action And Mass Torts Are Effective Tools In Personal Injury Cases

Canada Litigation

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Gluckstein Lawyers

Learning From Losing: Debriefing Under The Public Procurement Act

Canada Government

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Cox & Palmer

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Latest Videos

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Appealing Briefs – Episode 24: Kosicki: Adverse Possession, Statutory Interpretation, And The Common Law (Podcast)

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Actions collectives au Canada : à l'avant-plan des litiges pharmaceutiques (Video)

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Fasken (French)

New Rules, New Game: Proposed Reforms To The Ontario Rules Of Civil Procedure (Video)

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SBA Lawyers LLP

Marco P. Falco Featured In Coffee With Convery Podcast

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Torkin Manes LLP

International Rescue – What You Can Do If Global Supply Chains Break Down (Video)

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Gowling WLG

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