Child Abduction and Habitual Residence in the Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada, in Office of the Children’s Lawyer v Balev (available
About Stephen Pitel
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
Entries by Stephen Pitel
UKSC on Traditional Rules of Jurisdiction: Brownlie v Four Seasons Holdings Incorporated
/in Views/by Stephen PitelShortly before Christmas the UKSC released its decision on jurisdiction in Brownlie v Four Seasons Holdings Incorporated (
Conflicts – Between Domestic and Indigenous Legal Systems?
/in Views/by Stephen PitelIn Beaver v Hill, 2017 ONSC 7245 (
New Article: Conflict of Laws and Relational Feminism
/in News/by Stephen PitelReaders of this blog might be interested in Roxana Banu, “A Relational Feminist Approach to Conflict of Laws” (2017) 24 Mich. J. Gender & L. 1. It can be accessed through SSRN at
Worldwide Removal Order Upheld Against Google
/2 Comments/in /by Stephen PitelThe Supreme Court of Canada has upheld, by a 7-2 decision, an injunction issued by lower courts in British Columbia requiring Google, a non-party to the litigation, to globally remove or “de-index” the websites of the defendant so that they do not appear in any search results. This is the first such decision by Canada’s highest court. […]
Law on Jurisdiction Clauses Changes in Canada
/in /by Stephen PitelIn 2011 Facebook, Inc. used the name and picture of certain Facebook.com members as part of an advertising product. In response, a class action was started in British Columbia on behalf of roughly 1.8 million British Columbia residents whose name and picture had been used. The claim was based on section 3(2) of the province’s […]
Characterization of Unfunded Pension Liability Claims
/in /by Stephen PitelIn Re Walter Energy Canada Holdings, Inc, 2017 BCSC 709 (available
New International Commercial Arbitration Statute for Ontario
/in /by Stephen PitelOntario has enacted and brought into force the International Commercial Arbitration Act, 2017, SO 2017, c 2, Sched 5 (available
New Canadian Reference on Conflict of Laws
/in /by Stephen PitelHalsbury’s Laws of Canada (first edition) has published a reissue (September 2016) of its volume on Conflict of Laws. It is written by Professor Janet Walker, the author of the leading Canadian textbook in the field. The reissue is highly detailed with over 260 pages of tables (cases, conventions, legislation), an index and a glossary. […]
Supreme Court of Canada Allows Courts to Sit Extraterritorially
/in /by Stephen PitelIn Endean v British Columbia, 2016 SCC 42 (available