Litigation Law, Mediation Law and Arbitration Law

The Superior Court granted summary judgment dismissing the Township’s action for declaratory relief against its residents in a dispute over the ownership of a strip of land running along the Georgian Bay shoreline.

The Supreme Court of Canada website has recently posted that the Berendsen appeal (from the Ontario Court of Appeal) has been discontinued.

On July 19, 2010, the Divisional Court (McCombs, Swinton and Wilton-Siegel JJ.) released its judgment in an application brought by Councillor Douglas Holyday, a member of the Council of the City of Toronto, against the City and three other members of Council, challenging four decisions by the Council to approve the expenditure of City funds to reimburse councillors for legal expenses.

In the most significant development in Ontario civil litigation in decades, the Ontario Civil Rules Review working group has released its consultation paper setting out proposals...

A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada summarizes the legal test for the concept of abuse of process and clarifies how that test should be applied in the context of claims by Indigenous litigants.

In a real estate transaction, the agreement of purchase and sale will include a deadline by which a buyer may submit requisitions for issues...

On June 8, 2012, Genentech’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that US Patent No. 6,733,752 was invalid and not-infringed by Genentech’s trastuzumab product (HERCEPTIN).

On April 19, 2012, the Québec Court of Appeal (the Court) rendered the first decision on misleading advertising since the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC) in Richard v. Time Inc. In Perreault v. McNeil PDI Inc.,

This bulletin outlines numerous recent developments affecting the health sector covering the areas of constitutional law, procurement law and privacy law.

The Wills and Succession Act ("WSA") came into force in Alberta on February 1, 2012.

A business valuator (or expert in damages quantification) may be retained by more than one party and possibly by parties with opposing interests. In certain situations, for example, matrimonial disputes involving a business or the buy-out of a minority shareholder, professional fees may be reduced through the joint retention of one expert, provided a process is in place to ensure the expert considers the views and comments of the parties in a fair, objective and transparent manner.

British Columbia introduced dependant relief legislation in 1920 and despite varying interpretations by the courts over time, the legislation itself has remained substantially the same as when it was first introduced.