Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP (AGM), a leading Toronto-based commercial litigation and competition law practice, is proud to announce that The Honourable David C. Dingwall, P.C, Q.C., Counsel with AGM, has been appointed an International Commercial Arbitrator by the ICC National Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

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The comfort provided by a surety bond can be lost easily if one does not cross one’s T’s and dot one’s I’s. However, by being aware of the defences most often raised by sureties you can chart a course that reduces the likelihood that the surety bond ends up as nothing more than a souvenir of a construction project gone wrong.

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In Canada, “check” is spelled “cheque”; and cheques are, of course, generally written in Canadian dollars and drawn on Canadian banks. Those are not, however, the only differences between Canadian and US law and banking practices relating to cheques.

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I have been asked to speak on the topic of construction bonds. In speaking to you today I shall attempt to avoid, where possible, boring you with endless legal jargon and precedents but concentrate on practical advice from one who has had to deal with a number of substantial bond claims in several Provinces of [...]

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THE RULE When asked to speak on the impact of technological changes taking place in the retail stock market on the "Know Your Client Rule", I was somewhat at a loss in that if you had asked me several months ago what "Surfing the Net" meant I would have thought it was a surf in [...]

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