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Seeing the forest for the trees: Ontario Court of Appeal dismisses Sino-Forest executives’ appeal of OSC decision

On June 3, 2019 the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Hung et al, v. Ontario (Securities Commission), upholding the ruling of the...

Court has no appetite to pierce corporate veil in restaurant lease decision

Corporate directors and officers may generally only be held personally liable for misconduct on the part of the corporation in limited circumstances...

In the news: Blockchain and transfer pricing

The digital economy has given rise to a range of taxation issues. Below, we outline an interesting article that discusses how distributed ledger...

Recent cases

Summaries of two cases: Total Energy Services Inc. v. The Queen, 2019 TCC 112 and Renaud v. The Queen, 2019 CAF 154.

Welsh v Ontario: Court cannot unilaterally amend class action settlement

In a previous post, we discussed Justice Perell’s decision in Welsh v Ontario ordering class counsel to make a sizeable charitable donation as...

Contractual interpretation of mandatory statutory terms is a question of law

In CHN Canada Ltd. v. Chesterman Farm Equipment Ltd., 2018 ONCA 637, the Court of Appeal for Ontario confirmed that the interpretation of an...

Ontario (Provincial Police) v. Assessment Direct Inc.: Chambers judge cannot rule on jurisdiction of Court of Appeal for Ontario

In Ontario (Provincial Police) v. Assessment Direct Inc., Justice Juriansz, sitting in chambers, declined to hear a motion seeking directions on the...

FSRA, Ontario’s new pensions regulator, takes shape

On November 16, the Ontario government introduced draft framework legislation to establish a new financial services and pensions regulator,...

On the Path to Change: Ontario Fall Economic Statement 2016

The direction of pensions law in Ontario just became a little clearer. In its Fall Economic Statement released on November 14, 2016, the Government...