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2025 Osler Legal Outlook
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP are most popular: with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives with readers working within the Business & Consumer Services and Healthcare industries In last year's Osler Legal Outlook, our authors shared their views on important legal developments during 2024 and provided advice and perspectives on how to navigate the years ahead in light of these developments. We predicted that the election of Donald Trump would drive significant change.
Another Step Forward For Internet Gaming In Ontario: International Pooled Liquidity
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP are most popular: with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives in Canada with readers working within the Business & Consumer Services, Healthcare and Law Firm industries The Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed the legality of a new "pooled liquidity" model for online gaming, allowing Ontario players to engage with players outside Canada.
2024 Osler Legal Outlook
Last year, we decided to shift our approach to our yearly legal overview. We wanted to move beyond a summary of the year's most important developments and focus on providing greater guidance regarding the anticipated effects in the year ahead, based on our insights gained from the past year's developments.
Supreme Court Of Canada Demonstrates Flexibility Of Corporate Attribution In The Bankruptcy And Insolvency Context
Should a corporation be affixed with the fraudulent or other nefarious intent of its directing minds? The answer to this question is of key importance in several contexts where the "intent" of the corporation leads to specific legal consequences. Two recent cases from the Supreme Court of Canada — Aquino v. Bondfield Construction Co.1 and Scott v.
Reverse vesting orders: Popular in Canada and going international?
Since we last discussed the then-novel restructuring mechanism known as the reverse vesting order (RVO) in 2020, insolvency professionals have been seeking, and courts have been approving, this facilitative remedy with greater frequency. Two particularly notable decisions rendered in 2022 – Harte Gold and Just Energy – show how far the case law has come in the last two years.
Wastech And Discretion: The Supreme Court Of Canada On The Duty To Exercise Contractual Discretion In Good Faith
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Good faith requires a party to exercise contractual discretion reasonably, and not in a manner unconnected to the purposes for which it was granted – even when the contract on its face provides for unfettered discretion. So said the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC) in Wastech Services Ltd v Greater Vancouver Sewerage District (2021 SCC 7).
Honesty Is The Best Policy: The Supreme Court Of Canada Seeks To Clarify The Duty Of Honest Contractual Performance
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Don't mislead your contracting counterparties about matters linked to the performance of a contract. That is the apparently simple message from the Supreme Court of Canada in CM Callow Inc v Zollinger.
Legal Year In Review 2020
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Without a doubt, 2020 has been a year like no other. Inevitably, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects is a theme that flows through many of the articles in our seventh annual Legal Year in Review publication. At the same time, the business of our clients and the laws that regulate those businesses have evolved in ways that are unrelated to the pandemic and despite the pandemic.
Supreme Court Of Canada Opens Door To Liability For Alleged Human Rights Abuses Abroad
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In this Update On February 28, 2020, a five-justice majority of the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canadian corporations can be sued in Canada for breaches of customary international law committed abroad. The plaintiffs claimed damages from Nevsun Resources Ltd. (Nevsun), a Canadian corporation, for alleged human rights abuses in a mine in Eritrea operated by a majority-owned Eritrean indirect subsidiary.
Legal Year In Review 2018
Osler's insights on key developments in 2018 and their implications for Canadian business. INTRODUCTION By Jacqueline Code and Jeremy Fraiberg As 2018 comes to a close, it is time again to share with our clients and friends our observations about some of the most significant legal developments affecting Canadian business over the past year and their implications for 2019 and beyond. Without a doubt, the top legal story in Canada for 2018 was the legalization of cannabis for recreational use.
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