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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Recent decisions from Canadian courts will impact businesses in various industries. Below are five takeaways from commercial cases across the country to help your business stay ahead of litigation risk...
Dentons
In Yatar v. TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, 2024 SCC 8 (Yatar), released on March 15, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada addressed the role that a limited statutory...
Lavery
Artificial intelligence ("AI") is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the fact that this human invention can now generate its own inventions opens the door to new ways of conceptualizing...
Bennett Jones LLP
In the recent decision of Electronic Arts Inc. v Bourgeois, 2024 QCCA 284 (Bourgeois), the Québec Court of Appeal provided direction concerning when and how defendants...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
On March 27, 2024, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released its much awaited decision in Palmer v. Teva. The decision sends a clear signal that claims based on weak science...
MLT Aikins LLP
The Blood Tribe has long maintained that it did not receive the full area of reserve land that it was promised in Treaty No. 7 and has been in dispute over its Treaty Land Entitlement ("TLE")...
Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer
When picturing legal proceedings, many people envision dramatic courtroom trials with witnesses taking the stand. However, in Alberta, civil trials (unlike criminal trials) are rare.
Fasken
En tant que défendeur à une demande d'autorisation d'une action collective au Québec, vous venez d'apprendre que la Cour supérieure a autorisé l'exercice d'une action collective...
Miller Thomson LLP
The Alberta Court of King's Bench in Star Energy Canada Inc v Builders Energy Services Ltd, 2023 ABKB 641 affirmed and enforced an undertaking personally given by the principal of Star Energy Canada Inc. ("SEC")...
Miller Thomson LLP
Litigation is often a lengthy and costly experience for those involved in commercial disputes. Parties often assume that if they are successful, their entire legal fees will be paid...
McCague Borlack LLP
In discussing limited rights of appeal pertaining to questions of law, The Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") in Yatar v. TD Insurance Meloche Monnex unanimously...
WeirFoulds LLP
Rule 30.10 is a very powerful evidence-gathering tool. It empowers the Court to order a non-party to produce documents in their possession, power, or control that are relevant to ongoing litigation.
Langlois Lawyers, LLP
Dans cette affaire, le Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (le « Syndicat »), qui représente des chauffeurs d'autobus...
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that the Royal Canadian Legion did not infringe an author's moral rights by selling poppy patterned...
Gardiner Roberts LLP
Regular followers of my blogs will probably have recognized that they often feature defamation cases and decisions rendered on anti-SLAPP motions. An anti-SLAPP motion (available in Ontario...
Rogers Partners LLP
In Denman v. Radovanovic, 2022 ONSC 4401, following a July 18, 2022, mid-trial voir dire, Justice Ferguson ordered the defence's expert Dr. Redekop excluded from testifying...
Bereskin & Parr LLP
The Canadian Copyright Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42 provides authors with two types of moral rights: integrity and attribution (the right to be associated with the work or to remain anonymous).
Fasken
Recently, the BC Supreme Court issued its decision in R v Mossman, 2024 BCSC 443. The case involved two appeals from summary convictions...
Aird & Berlis LLP
The first quarter of 2024 saw the release of a number of important class action decisions which support the following principles...
CLC (Canadian Litigation Counsel)
On February 12, 2024, the Court of Appeal rendered an interesting decision in a dispute between Société d'assurance Beneva Inc. ("Beneva") and its insureds.
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