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Insurance Companies Act amendments delayed to January 1 , 2010

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 26 2008

An Act to amend the law governing financial institutions and to provide for related and consequential matters, came into force, for the most part, on April 20

Court of Appeal okays suppliers’ US maritime lien

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 21 2009

The Federal Court of Appeal rendered a decision on December 12, 2008 which will be of particular interest for ship suppliers, ship chandlers and repairers as well as banks issuing ship mortgages

Quebec court upholds two-year time bar for maritime wrongful death claims

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 9 2008

The Quebec Superior Court has decided that the two-year limitation period of the Athens Passenger Convention 1974, in force in Canada pursuant to the Marine Liability Act (MLA), governs maritime wrongful death claims arising on inland navigable waters in Quebec, rather than the three-year “prescription” of actions to enforce personal and movable real rights established by art. 2925 of the Civil Code of Quebec (CCQ), and that the two years may not be extended

The end of the line for Boutique Jacob

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 9 2008

The Federal Court of Appeal may now have written the final chapter in the saga of Boutique Jacob and its claim for goods damaged in a train derailment

Boutique Jacob rolls back to court

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 9 2008

The Montreal-based clothier Boutique Jacob continues to enrich Canadian jurisprudence on transportation law, as seen in the recent Quebec Superior Court judgment in Royal & Sun Alliance, Société d’Assurances c. Transport Quik-X

Carriage of beer bottles the consignee must pay freight

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 9 2008

The Quebec Court of Appeal recently required a well-known Canadian brewery to pay unpaid freight charges owing on shipments of (empty) beer bottles, pursuant to bills of lading issued by the bottle supplier

The “Swift Fortune” concluded at last

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 9 2008

After lengthy litigation in three courts, BLG has won a final and notable victory in a case that raised several important points of law and procedure concerning admiralty actions in rem in Canada

Shifting currents in Canadian maritime law

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 28 2009

Recent studies have indicated that the number of foreign flagged vessels transiting Canadian waters may dramatically increase in the near future, due to a rapidly receding polar ice cap resulting from global warming

Interpretation of ambiguous commercial contracts: will common sense prevail?

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Australia, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 19 2012

In England, yes; in Australia, apparently not

Planes, trains and automobiles: starring CP and the Teamsters

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 26 2010

Earlier this year, on a clear March day, a CP train traveling near Revelstoke, British Columbia, failed to respond to a stop signal and broadsided another CP train at a speed of 27mph

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