The class action lawsuit is an important legal innovation. It allows many small players to get together and seek justice if they have been injured due to the negligence of a large company. It lets small investors or consumers who have suffered a loss make a claim. Their individual losses are not large enough to […]
Contracts is an ancient, well-trodden area of the law, and contract cases rarely get to the Supreme Court. A recent case that might make it there concerns a move by General Motors (in dire financial straits at the time) to reduce the health and life insurance benefits of its non-union retirees. The case is a […]
The Supreme Court's decision in Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. v. Canada, 2013 SCC 29, addressed the question of how much tax was owed by a forestry company on the sale of land with environmental reclamation obligations. It will be of considerable economic significance for all types of resource industries. This can be divined from the range […]
One clear and basic principle underlies Canadian equality law. Put simply, s 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guards against the effects of discrimination, regardless of intent. This important tenet of the equality doctrine was set out by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in its very first equality decision, Andrews v […]