March 27, 2025
The Ontario Superior Court has set aside an arbitrator’s decision requiring a purchaser to pay substantial indemnity legal costs to a vendor in a dispute concerning a cancelled condominium project.
March 26, 2025
A forum selection clause in the social media platform X’s terms of service does not apply to a defamation lawsuit brought against it over content posted on X, the B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled.
March 21, 2025
In its latest effort to revamp family law, Quebec introduced a bill that lays the groundwork to establish a unified family court to curb delays, simplify proceedings, and handle the majority of family legal proceedings, with an eye towards eventually stripping Superior Court of family matters, an undertaking family law experts have panned as ill-conceived and riddled with shortcomings as it is currently drafted.
March 20, 2025
A global shipping company should not be held liable for the loss of a container of lentils that never reached its destination, the Federal Court has ruled.
February 26, 2025
In the run-up to Ontario’s Feb. 27 election this week, the organization that represents more than 1,300 legal professionals in the personal injury sector has been campaigning to raise awareness about issues with the province’s auto insurance system that it argues are unfair to accident victims and the personal injury bar.
February 26, 2025
Asserting his new administration is “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued controversial executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and hiring at the federal level in America. But in Canada, the most recent demographic statistics on federal judicial appointments and the professional competence and character assessments made by the Trudeau government’s non-partisan judicial advisory committees (JACs) indicate that diversity has gone hand in hand with “merit.”
February 24, 2025
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed a judicial review in part relating to telework and remote work provisions in an interest arbitral award given to the Library of Parliament.
February 14, 2025
Unifor has announced it has won what it calls a “historic arbitration award” of about $15 million for 200 of its union members who worked at Wingham, Ont.-based automotive exhaust manufacturer Wescast Industries. The union and the company were involved in a nearly two-year dispute regarding severance and termination pay.
February 06, 2025
The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal in an international trade dispute between Mexico and a U.S.-based motorcycle company that concerned arbitral procedural fairness, finding that apprehension of bias nullified a tribunal decision dismissing a potential $2.7 billion claim.
January 24, 2025
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Andromache Karakatsanis has seen many changes at the court since she was appointed in 2011 but its recent historic transformation into a fully bilingual female-majority court is “fantastic,” she says.