Entries by Stephen Pitel

Recent Articles on Recognition and Enforcement in Canada

Readers of this site might be interesting in the following two articles: Antonin I. Pribetic, “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Recent Trends in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Canada” in Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2006, T. Archibald and R. Echlin, eds (Toronto: Thomson-Carswell, 2007) at 141-199 (available on SSRN

Recent Canadian Articles

Some readers of this site may be interested in the following:  Vaughan Black, “The Hague Choice of Court Convention” (2006) 6 Canadian International Lawyer 181-195 (an account of the proposed treaty’s principal provisions and discussion of differences with existing Canadian law)  Elizabeth Edinger, “New British Columbia Legislation: The Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act; The […]

Consent-Based Jurisdiction: Ontario

See Mueller v. Resort Investors International, ULC, [2006] O.J. No. 4952 (S.C.J.) (available here) for a straightforward rejection of the defendant's challenge to the jurisdiction of the Ontario court on the basis that the defendant served and filed both a notice of intent to defend and a statement of defence.  The motions judge held there […]

Halsbury’s Laws of Canada – Conflict of Laws

As part of LexisNexis Canada's new resource collection, Halsbury's Laws of Canada, Janet Walker of Osgoode Hall Law School has authored the volume on Conflict of Laws.  Professor Walker is the author of Castel & Walker, Canadian Conflict of Laws, 6th edition, from the same publisher, which is Canada's leading text in the field.  This […]