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Paul Sharp; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on February 2012 Bribery and corruption enforcement is on the rise around the world. In this climate, all businesses, even the best corporate citizens, need to examine their exposure to potential corruption allegations. Pleading ignorance of the corrupt practice - or the laws that govern them - isn’t a...
| | Secured Creditors May Assert Priority over Proceeds of a Fraudulent Preference Action
Michael J. MacNaughton, Sam Rappos; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 1, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In the decision of Justice Morawetz of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) (the “Court”) in In the Matter of Aero Inventory (UK) Limited and Aero Inventory PLC, the Court held that proceeds of a fraudulent preference action recovered by a trustee in bankruptcy under...
| | Common Law Privacy Rights: Ontario Court Of Appeal Recognizes Invasion of Privacy Tort
Amy Davison; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 31, 2012, previously published on January 2012 The Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of Jones v. Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32, has explicitly recognized a common law tort for invasion of a person`s right to privacy, specifically the right to seclusion of one’s private affairs from the public eye - a legal issue that remains uncertain in some...
| | Bank of Montreal v. Peri Formwork Systems Inc.
Geoffrey Thompson, Edward Wang; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 23, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In the recently released Judgment in Bank of Montreal v. Peri Formwork Systems Inc., the British Columbia Court of Appeal was called upon to decide whether a Monitor, under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”), or a Receiver, under the Builders Lien Act, could borrow...
| | Ontario Court Of Appeal Recognizes the Tort of Invasion of Privacy
Barbara A. McIsaac; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 20, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In the much anticipated decision of Jones v. Tsige, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled on January 18, 2012 that there in a common law tort for invasion of privacy recognized in Ontario and awarded damages of $10,000 even though the plaintiff had not suffered any monetary loss. The tort that the...
| | The Autorité Des Marchés Financiers Initiates a Consultation on the Compensation of Consumers of Financial Products and Services
Éric Lapierre; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In the wake of the scandals of Norbourg, Earl Jones and Mount Real, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) initiated a public consultation on December 9, 2011, regarding the compensation of victims of financial crimes. At the request of the Québec Minister of Finance and of...
| | Does Your Contest Violate Canadian Laws?
Alexandra Nicol, Victoria Prince; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In designing a contest that is open to residents of Canada, there are a number of legal issues to consider.
| | Pension Misrepresentation Claims on the Rise in Canada
David A. Crerar, R. Andrew G. Harrison, Markus F. Kremer; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Pension misrepresentation claims against companies and actuarial firms are on the rise. Rare in Canadian law until recently, the full exposure posed by such claims remains unknown, given the fact that few cases that has yet come to trial. Any company with a pension plan, however, may be sitting on...
| | Implications of the Supreme Court Decision in the Securities Act Reference
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Following the release of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on December 22, 2011 in the Reference Re Securities Act, 2011 SCC 66, the Government of Canada will be forced to rethink its efforts to implement a national regime for securities regulation.
| | Avoiding IP Ownership Surprises
Bradley J. Freedman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 17, 2012 Businesses commonly require their employees and independent contractors to sign agreements assigning ownership of all work product and related intellectual property rights to the business. A 2011 B.C. Supreme Court decision holds that those agreements do not assign legal ownership of copyright in...
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