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Canada: magnet for UK non-doms?

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 3 2008

The Labour and Conservative parties in the United Kingdom are competing to get tough on the generous tax perks enjoyed by the country's non-domiciled residents

Determined to make the horse drink

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 15 2009

At least one justice of the English Court of Queen’s Bench seems determined to prove incorrect the old adage ‘you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.’

Tax fraud through the sale of carbon credits

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 15 2009

Nine people were arrested in London recently under suspicion they tried to defraud European authorities of US $62 million in tax revenues owed on carbon trades

Making a takeover bid compliant with Canadian and UK rules

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 29 2009

The takeover of Arawak Energy Limited, a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE), was completed in April 2009 and was the first public takeover bid to be fully compliant with the takeover provisions of both Canadian securities law and London’s City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (UK Code

Claiming your customers’ damages as your own

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 9 2009

In contract disputes, the parties who are permitted to bring an action following a breach of contract, and the scope of the damages which they are entitled to seek, are limited by the legal principle known as privity of contract

UK High Court judgment expanding ambit of software patents to be appealed

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 26 2008

The recent High Court decision of Mr. Justice Patten in Symbian Ltd. v. Comptroller General of Patents overturned an earlier decision by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) refusing Symbian’s patent application with respect to an interface to facilitate access to updated dynamic link libraries

Federal Court refuses to recognize UK patent agent privilege

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 23 2007

On December 6, 2006, the Federal Court issued its decision in Lilly Icos LLC et al. v. Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals (2006 FC 1465

Re North America Steamships Ltd

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 30 2007

Trustee in bankruptcy must affirm swap contracts to take advantage of them but is not personally liable if the contracts end up being out of the money - while contract gave buyer a termination right on bankruptcy, it could choose not to exercise this option and leave it to the trustee to decide whether or not to affirm the swap and take the risk that the estate will end up out of the money

A bank's innocent mishandling of a client's funds subject to a Mareva injunction freezing order leads to a finding of contempt of court

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 4 2008

A recent English decision highlights the danger that even a well-intentioned financial institution may face if it fails to strictly obey a Mareva injunction order freezing the accounts of one of its clients

Emergency restrictions on short selling in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 23 2008

The upheaval in the financial markets last week has prompted international securities regulators, led by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to adopt emergency restrictions on short-selling of certain financial stocks

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