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Inside arbitration: Osler’s Canadian Arbitration Blog

Arbitration continues to gain popularity in commercial agreements across a variety of industries. With our Canadian Arbitration Blog, our team...

World Bank debarment of engineering consulting firm underscores importance of compliance in public procurement

The recent World Bank debarment of an engineering consulting firm for misrepresentations in bid documents underscores the need for compliance...

British Columbia Court of Appeal rules that arbitration clauses in standard form contracts are presumptively enforceable in the province

Distinct from the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2020 decision in Uber Technologies v. Heller, a recent case suggests that British Columbia courts...

California’s new ‘Climate Accountability Package’

California’s legislature recently passed two bills that impose significant mandatory climate-related reporting requirements for large public...

Navigating Canadian Consumer Protection Law Updates: Ensuring Compliance and Success in the DTC Online Marketplace

Join us for a client breakfast event where our Retail and Consumer Products team members, Christine Jackson and Lucas Versteegh, will discuss the...

Canada’s enforcement of foreign bribery is ‘exceedingly low’, find its OECD peers in Phase 4 monitoring report

The OECD’s Stage 4 monitoring report published last week regarding Canada’s anti-corruption enforcement finds that Canada has not done...

Federal Court determines criteria for Court to appoint arbitrator

For the first time, two parties asked the Federal Court to appoint an arbitrator under the federal Commercial Arbitration Act. Olivia Dixon,...

Class counsel fees in Québec: No more open bar

Québec courts are increasingly scrutinizing fee agreements submitted by plaintiff lawyers in class actions, placing greater importance on fairness...