Articles 2024

While blockchain originated to serve as the public transaction ledger of cryptocurrency, the technology is now being explored for other purposes. It is only a matter of time before the construction industry engages in earnest with blockchain and benefits from the technology.

On September 20, 2019, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision in Pioneer Corp v Godfrey. Godfrey is the Supreme Court’s latest decision involving price-fixing class actions, and expands on and clarifies the basic approach to these cases that the Court laid out six years ago in Pro-Sys Consultants Limited v Microsoft Corporation.

Topics this week included family law, costs in the wills and estates context, contractual interpretation, assessment of accounts in the condominium law context, and stay pending leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

In Canmar Foods Ltd v TA Foods Ltd, the Federal Court interpreted the new file wrapper estoppel provision, s 53.1 of the Patent Act, for the first time. The court held that foreign prosecution history is admissible in extraordinary circumstances under this provision.

With every interaction you are establishing your “brand”. Whether you are dealing with a client, service provider, administration staff, colleagues or superiors, how you react in each situation tells those whom you are dealing with what kind of lawyer you are.

For the first of a new series of articles, “15 Questions in 5 Minutes,” Jaime Cardy, editor of the Privacy and Access to Information Law Section, sat down to interview Avi Sharabi, chair of the Section Executive and an associate at Stieber Berlach LLP.

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups has challenged income deeming practices of Canadian workers' compensation boards in a submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

As the 2019/20 Chair and Vice-Chair of the OBA's Alternative Dispute Resolution Section ('ADR Section'), Megan Keenberg and Mitchell Rose welcome all members of the ADR Section and provide an overview of upcoming activities and events in their welcome letter.

A summary of the "Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence Meet Privacy Law: An Interactive Conversation on Strategizing for Clients" program that was jointly hosted by the Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law Section and the Privacy and Access to Information Law Section in September 2019.