CONTRIBUTORS: KEN DEKKER, MICHAEL OSBORNE, MICHAEL BINETTI,ADAM WYGODNY,AND HOOMAN ZARGARZADEH CANADA’S TOP COURT DISMISSES SHAREHOLDER CLASS ACTION AGAINST DANIER LEATHER In October, Canada’s Supreme Court upheld the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision overturning Canada’s first-ever securities class action judgment in favour of investors relating to alleged misrepresentations on an initial public offering. … and more. [...]

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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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Ontario’s Court of Appeal upheld the trial decision in Drouillard v. Cogeco Cable Canada Inc. that held large cable operator Cogeco Cable liable for telling a cable subcontractor, Mastec Canada, that it would not allow its employee, Mr. Drouillard, to work on Cogeco equipment.

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Western Tank & Lining Ltd. recently obtained an extraordinarily broad interlocutory injunction restraining a group of former employees not only from soliciting Western Tank’s clients but even from accepting business from customers that Western Tank did business with over the previous 5 years.

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CONTRIBUTORS: MEREDITH HAYWARD, KENNETH DEKKER, PAUL EMERSON, KYLE PETERSON,AND ADAM WYGODNY SUPREME COURT OF CANADA CONFIRMS LITIGATION PRIVILEGE OF LIMITED DURATION In its first review of the lifespan of litigation privilege, the Supreme Court of Canada has recently ruled that, unlike solicitor-client privilege, it “expires with the litigation of which it was born.” … and [...]

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