May 30, 2025
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has stayed arbitration proceedings brought by a minority shareholder challenging a corporate lease renewal, holding that the shareholder’s prior participation in the majority shareholder’s receivership proceedings precluded reliance on an arbitration agreement.
May 27, 2025
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has ruled that a minority shareholder’s right to arbitrate claims under shareholder agreements was extinguished once the majority shareholder exercised a separate contractual option to purchase his stake.
May 27, 2025
The Ontario Superior Court has approved a historic $500-million negotiated settlement in a class action targeting grocery store giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. over their admitted role in an industry-wide scheme to fix the price of bread that stretched from 2001 to 2015.
May 21, 2025
The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal finding that the application judge erred in interpreting that a mediation and arbitration clause required parties to resolve disputes within 30 days.
May 13, 2025
Lawyers who were key Cabinet members in Justin Trudeau's erstwhile minority Liberal government have assumed dominant roles in Prime Minister Mark Carney's new 29-member Liberal Cabinet.
May 09, 2025
The Law Society of Ontario has announced that three candidates — Murray Klippenstein, Stephen Rotstein and incumbent Peter Wardle — have been nominated for the role of treasurer, with the election set for June 18.
May 08, 2025
An Ontario Superior Court panel has quashed an arbitrator’s decision that an employer should never discipline employees who fail to comply with a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. However, in a May 6 decision in Humber River Health v. Teamsters Local Union No. 419, 2025 ONSC 2270, Justices Nancy Backhouse, Richard Lococo and Graeme Mew upheld the arbitrator’s decision ordering Toronto’s Humber River Hospital to reinstate two employees who were fired for failing to comply with the vaccination policy.
May 01, 2025
The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal and agreed with an arbitrator’s decision to not reimburse an insurer for costs related to statutory accident benefits in a case where another insurer was higher priority for the claimant.
April 15, 2025
A revamp of Ontario’s justice system could soon be in the offing after a task force set up to look at the province’s Rules of Civil Procedure recommended a number of changes that would have a major impact on legal practice.
April 14, 2025
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that a 1957 franchise agreement, which requires a gas supplier to obtain approval from the County of Essex for the relocation or replacement of pipelines, does not violate the rule against perpetuities.