December 2020

To print this article, simply register or connect to Mondaq.com. Background On October 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada (“CSC”) Rendered its decision in The owners, Strata Plan…

Legal Expatiate is an initiative to bring together the best talent from this country and instill in them a nation first attitude. An active forum of scholars, professionals and students where they host webinars from senior lawyers, High…

Background On October 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada (“CCS”) rendered its decision in The owners, Strata Plan LMS 3905 c. Crystal Square Parking Corporation ("crystal square”), an appeal on whether a pre-incorporation agreement…

In a recent 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a majority decision of the Court of Appeal and invalidated a semi-ipso facto clause providing that the filing for bankruptcy of a company triggers a payment of…

Scott Keller, the former Solicitor General of Texas, now a partner at Baker Botts, has an important article to appear in the Stanford Law Review: Qualified and absolute immunity at common law: He delves into 19th century treaties and…

BCL 626 governs derivative actions by shareholders or lawsuits brought by individual shareholders on behalf of and for damages caused to the company. Subsection (e) provides that if the plaintiff - the individual shareholder claiming the…

He called it "the law of the dog". Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill The English are curiously ambivalent about their system of law. In a way, I blame Dickens, his influence as outsized as his…