The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has rejected the latest attempt by foreign plaintiffs to sue in the US for injury caused outside of the US by an alleged worldwide conspiracy to fix the price for certain vitamins.[1] The Empagran case is already familiar to Canadian competition and class action lawyers. [...]

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3444920 Canada Inc. v. Strother , 2005 BCCA 35[1] A recent decision of the B.C. Court of Appeal has hit a senior Vancouver lawyer, and possibly his firm, with a judgment worth more than $30 Million as a result of the lawyer’s breach of fiduciary duty to a client. The lawyer is Robert Strother, formerly [...]

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In R. v. Rowe[1], the Ontario Superior Court found that the offence of bid-rigging, in s. 47 of the Competition Act does not include withdrawing a bid or tender. Two companies submitted identical bids to supply chlorine to the City of Toronto. One company subsequently withdrew its bid. The Crown alleged that the two had [...]

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In its recent decision in Chadha v. Bayer Inc., the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the Divisional Court’s refusal to certify a class of indirect purchasers of pigments used to colour bricks. The Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal on July 17, 2003.

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