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competition

Class action attacks “economic effect” of DuPont’s prices

February 15th, 2008 | By Michael Osborne | Posted in Class Actions and Other Private Actions, Competition Law

Canada’s first class action alleging vertical price maintenance may have far reaching consequences for Canadian manufacturers and distributors.

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The year of the guideline

January 23rd, 2008 | By Michael Osborne | Posted in Civil Anti-Competitive Conduct, Competition Law

2007 was the year of the guideline. The Competition Bureau issued six guidelines and bulletins, some in draft, some in final form.

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Antitrust Division’s conduct in revoking immunity “fundamentally unfair”

January 11th, 2008 | By Michael Osborne | Posted in Competition Bureau Investigations, Competition Law, Criminal Matters

The US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division has lost its fight to evict Stolt-Nielsen S.A. from its immunity program.

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Whose book of business is it, anyway? Confusion reigns on ‘ownership’ of investment firm client lists

November 22nd, 2007 | By Kenneth Dekker | Posted in Commercial Litigation, Employment Litigation

There are few, if any, legal issues affecting the investment industry that are more cloudy and less certain than whether investment firm clients belong to the investment advisor or to the investment firm. And there are arguably few issues more important. This question has been the subject of several widely divergent – and even confusing – court decisions on the issue over the past few years.

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Cable company liable for inducing breach of contract

May 14th, 2007 | By Kenneth Dekker | Posted in Commercial Litigation, Employment Litigation

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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