April 16th, 2013

In a much-anticipated decision, the Competition Tribunal rejected the Competition Commissioner’s application to force The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) to relax its rules surrounding how Multiple Listing Service (MLS) information was used by real estate agents. The Tribunal also ordered the Commissioner to pay TREB’s costs. At issue in the six-week long trial held in the fall of 2012 was whether TREB’s restrictions of how much information posted by real estate agents on MLS would be visible to the public at large over the Internet was an abuse of TREB’s dominant position and thus, anti-competitive. The Commissioner objected to [...] Full article

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

Discoverability, continuing effects, and Competition Act limitation periods

W. Michael G. Osborne
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP February 27th, 2012

In a recent decision, the Federal Court of Appeal left open the possibility that the discoverability principle may apply to the two-year limitation period established for private actions under section [...] Full article

Law suit alleging defamation by Competition Bureau allowed to proceed

W. Michael G. Osborne
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP February 24th, 2012

Ontario's top court recently allowed parts of a claim that the Competition Bureau defamed suspects when it an announced bid-rigging charges against them to proceed to trial. In February 2009, [...] Full article