Review of major Canadian Competition Law developments over the past year, including: Criminal, Reviewable Matters, Mergers, Marketing Practices, Private Enforcement, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond

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• Can indirect purchasers sue for price-fixing losses?
• Bureau reverses the charges on hidden fees
• Court throws the book at Yellow Page business directory scam

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Review of all Canadian Competition Law developments over the past year, plus some US developments, including: Mergers, Criminal, Private Actions, Reviewable Matters, Marketing Practices, The Long Arm of US Antitrust

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• Indirect purchasers cannot sue
• Damages no longer required?
• The wired and the wireless
• Winds of change
• Credit card rules challenged… priceless?
• Rebates, savings and gift cards

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Contributors: The Hon. David C. Dingwall, P.C., Q.C., Kenneth Dekker, Michael Osborne, Fiona Campbell (Articling Student), and Brigid Wilkinson (Summer Student)

An update on significant commercial litigation decisions released recently in Canada.

• Insurance companies hit with $455.7 million class action judgment
• Court of Appeal comes to the fork in the road – and takes it
• Alberta appeal court overturns unprecedented damages award to dismissed investment advisor
• Judgment granted in Ontario’s first-ever environmental tort class action
• The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes – Its time has come!
• Court refuses to add to the contractual obligations of the vendor of a business

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Contributors: Michael Osborne, Sonny Ingram, Jennifer Dyck, and Christian Farahat.

Review of all Canadian Competition Law developments over the last 12 months, plus some US and EU developments, including: Mergers, Criminal, Private Actions, Reviewable Matters, Marketing Practices, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond

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• Hard time for hard core cartels
• Class action requirements loosened
• Suncor – Petro-Canada merger gets green light
• Nadeau’s feathers ruffled by Tribunal

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Contributers: Kenneth Dekker, Jennifer Dyck, Christian Farahat, Sonny Ingram, and Michael Osborne.

An update on significant commercial litigation decisions released recently in Ontario.

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