Jean Lortie
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Articles
Best Practices to Adopt in Reaction to the Unauthorized Communication or Retrieval of Privileged Information
Canada - September 19 2022 Case law and Codes of conduct across Canada have cemented the principles guiding how parties should behave when privileged documents are communicated…
Trio of Recent Supreme Court of Canada Decisions Signals Provinces Cannot Impede Federal Undertakings under the Guise of Environmental Protection
Canada - April 22 2020 On April 16, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an application to appeal a judgment rendered by the Québec Court of Appeal in 2019 regarding…
Dominique Amyot-Bilodeau, Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Patrick Ostiguy
A Province Cannot Compel Internet Service Providers to Block Access to Websites: Online Communications Fall Under Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction
Canada - June 25 2021 In Procureur général du Québec v Association canadienne des télécommunications sans fil, 2021 QCCA 730, the Quebec Court of Appeal confirms that a…
The need for a legal ground to stand on: a shareholders class action is dismissed at the authorization stage for failure to meet article 1003 b) C.p.c. (Groupe d’action d’investisseurs dans Biosyntech c. Tsang, 2015 QCCS 3265)
Canada - August 17 2015 In the spring of 2010, BioSyntech, a start-up biotechnology company, developing a cartilage-repair product, BST-Car Gel, filed a Notice of Intention…
Class action in neighborhood disturbances in Québec : has the wind turned ?
Canada - May 21 2015 On April 8, 2015, Justice Johanne April dismissed a Motion for authorization of a class action in neighborhood disturbances concerning the…
