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Some limits on commercial common sense as an interpretive principle

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
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  • June 4 2013

When you tell businesspeople that Canadian and English courts now recognise commercial common sense as a principle to be used in interpreting a

Piercing the corporate veil

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2013

The Alberta Court of Appeal has recently released a decision that adds much needed clarity to when an officer or director of a corporation will be

Performance in good faith as a matter of ‘mutual commercial conduct’

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 19 2013

As in Canada, the general position in England is that there is no duty of good faith in the negotiation of contracts: see Martel Building Ltd v

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Delaware court takes narrow view of common-interest privilege

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

CrossFit, a distributor of fitness and training regimens, is owned 'by an artificial entity, the marital community enjoyed by Greg and Lauren Glassman'

Satiric web posting not grounds for treating contract as terminated

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 19 2012

Spectrum Agencies was the commercial agent for the sale of Crocs Europe BV's (unaccountably) popular line of footwear. Employees of Spectrum found that

Directors' resignations: when are they effective and can they be revoked?

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • December 7 2012

The OBCA, the CBCA and the new Ontario Not-for-profit Corporations Act 2010 provide that a director's resignation is effective on the later of receipt of the resignation by the corporation or a date specified in the resignation, does not need to be accepted by the corporation and cannot be revoked once given, unless the corporation agrees

BC Court of Appeal reverses problematic decision on empty voting

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 20 2012

Telus wanted to consolidate voting and non-voting shares into a single class

California class action against Wal-Mart may have implications for Canadian businesses

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • October 17 2012

A recently launched class action lawsuit in California should be noted by all Canadian businesses that make use of debit and credit card machines for customer transactions

BC court leaves "empty voting" to legislators and regulators

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 15 2012

In TELUS Corporation v. Mason Capital Management LLC, the British Columbia Court of Appeal has overturned an important ruling of the British Columbia Supreme Court, widely lauded for articulating concerns regarding “empty voting”