Late last spring, a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada affirmed that the provinces’ Superior Courts have the jurisdiction to issue injunctions with purely extraterritorial effects.

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Last fall, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned an order enforcing a request for international judicial assistance (also known as letters rogatory) that sought to compel a former executive of a Talisman Energy Inc. subsidiary to be deposed in a U.S. action.

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Citing the Internet’s unique potential to cause harm anywhere and everywhere, Madam Justice Lax of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice enforced a New York District Court judgment earlier this month against the operators of Ontario-based websites that facilitated the illegal copying and downloading of movies.

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A Notice of Intent to Defend is the shortest of the pleadings that may be filed in an Ontario action and, in most cases, is of little consequence. Comprised of a single page and saying little beyond what its title…

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