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Secondary market civil liability arrives in Quebec

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

Amendments to the Securities Act (Quebec) introduce secondary market civil liability regime similar to that of Ontario

The duty to accommodate: the Supreme Court rules in favour of the employer

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 22 2008

The Supreme Court of Canada has just ruled in the case of Hydro-Québec, unanimously reversing the decision rendered by the Court of Appeal of Québec in February 2006

Supreme Court of Canada revisits the concept of undue hardship

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 29 2008

The Supreme Court of Canada has been busy over the past few weeks releasing significant employment law decisions

Disclosure of derivative positions comes under renewed scrutiny

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 21 2008

Recent pronouncements by a court in the United States, as well as regulatory activity in the United Kingdom, have highlighted the issue of whether rules requiring disclosure of beneficial interests in securities of public companies should extend to economic interests in securities held through derivative contracts such as cash-settled total-return equity swaps (TRSs) and similar financial instruments

Tighter rules on damages in wrongful dismissal cases

  • WeirFoulds LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 29 2008

A new Supreme Court of Canada decision provides both relief and clarity for employers facing potential wrongful dismissal actions

The Hydro-Quebec case: an important update on the duty to accommodate

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 24 2008

On July 17, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada issued an important ruling on the employer’s duty to accommodate employees who suffer from a handicap or disability within the meaning of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (the “Charter”) and similar human rights legislation

Supreme Court of Canada sets limits on employer’s duty to accommodate

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 24 2008

There is a limit to an employer’s duty to accommodate its disabled employees, the Supreme Court effectively confirmed on July 17th in Hydro Québec v. Syndicat des employées de techniques professionnelles et de bureau d’Hydro-Québec, section locale 2000

Sanofi-Aventis v. Laboratoire Riva; interlocutory motion on 55.2 proceeding; December 14, 2007 - Ramipril

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 17 2008

After cross-examinations had taken place, and approximately one week before the application record of Sanofi-Aventis was due, Riva brought a motion for leave to file further evidence

Pfizer v. Ratiopharm; motion to set aside a final decision of the Court of Appeal in the 55.2 proceeding; December 18, 2007 - amlodipine besylate

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 17 2008

Ratiopharm brought a motion to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal granting prohibition in response to a 55.2 application

The PMPRB’s jurisdiction back to the date of publication

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 20 2007

The Federal Court rendered a decision last week in the case of Shire Biochem Inc. v. Attorney General of Canada, 2007 FC 1316 (the Shire decision

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