Professor, Western University
Associate Professor Tanya Monestier of the Roger Williams University School of Law has written an article on the willingness of Canadian courts to hear class actions involving a global plaintiff class. It is entitled “Is Canada the New ‘Shangri-La’ of Global Securities Class Actions?” and is forthcoming in 2012 in the Northwestern Journal of International Law and […]
In Tucows.Com Co. v. Lojas Renner S.A., 2011 ONCA 548 (available
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has released its decision in A.M.R.I. v. K.E.R. (available
Here are some recent articles from Canadian publications: Janet Walker, “Are National Class Actions Constitutional? A Reply to Hogg and McKee” (2010) 48 Osgoode Hall LJ 95 Jeffrey Haylock, “The National Class as Extraterritorial Legislation” (2009) 32 Dal LJ 253 Gerald Robertson, “The Law of Domicile: Re Foote Estate” (2010) 48 Alta L Rev 189 […]
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has released Paulsson v. Cooper, 2011 ONCA 150 (available
On March 21, 22 and 25, 2011 the Supreme Court of Canada will hear appeals in four private international law cases. Each is a case in which the Ontario court has held that it has jurisdiction to hear the dispute and that the proceedings should not be stayed in favour of another forum. Two of […]
In Kazemi (Estate of) v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2011 QCCS 196 (available
In yet another, but not the final, step in the very long-running litigation between KAC, IAC and the Republic of Iraq, the Supreme Court of Canada has held that the enforcement in Quebec of a 2008 judgment of the English Commercial Court ordering Iraq to pay CAD$84 million to KAC is not barred by soveriegn […]
At the recent 40th Annual Workshop on Commercial and Consumer Law at the University of Toronto, three leading Canadian conflict of laws scholars – Vaughan Black of the Schulich School of Law, Joost Blom of the University of British Columbia and Janet Walker of Osgoode Hall Law School – presented a paper looking back at […]
Two recent publications contain several topical articles: In the 2010 issue (volume 60) of the University of New Brunswick Law Journal are the following five articles: Catherine Walsh: “The Uses and Abuses of Party Autonomy in International Contracts”; Joshua Karton, “Party Autonomy and Choice of Law: Is International Arbitration Leading the Way or Marching to the […]