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Competition Law Review

W. Michael G. Osborne, Masiel A. Matus, Brigid Wilkinson, Michelle E. Booth and Michael Binetti
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP March 20th, 2013

Review of major Canadian Competition Law developments over the past year, including: Top Stories, Criminal, Class Actions & Private Actions, Mergers, Reviewable Matters, Marketing Practices, Related Developments, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond Full article

Tim Hortons Franchisees Must Be Content With Profits from Coffee, Not Food

Michael Binetti
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP January 10th, 2013

Tim Hortons franchisees have lost their challenge to Tim Hortons’ “Always Fresh” model that allegedly reduced the profitability of donuts, TimBits, and other food items. In Fairview Donut Inc. v. [...] Full article

Thanks for the memory: DRAM defendants to pay $29m

W. Michael G. Osborne
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP January 7th, 2013

Five groups of defendants in the DRAM class action have agreed to pay over $29 million to settle allegations that they fixed prices for DRAM memory chips. DRAM, which stands [...] Full article

The Loss Stops Here

W. Michael G. Osborne
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP July 31st, 2012

Indirect purchasers of a product that was the subject of a price fixing conspiracy cannot sue to recover losses passed on to them by direct purchasers, the British Columbia Court [...] Full article

Developments

Consumers’ power to be tested as Supreme Court set to hear appeals on price fixing

"The cases are important because they will determine whether or not consumers can recover for losses caused by price-fixing several levels ahead of them in the distribution chain," said Michael Osborne, a Toronto-based litigator at Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP.