Tuesday, October 07, 2025 @ 3:16 PM
There was a celebratory mood at the opening ceremony for the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2025-26 court year, but Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser and other legal leaders delivered a sober message to the Ottawa courtroom packed with lawyers and judges. ... [read more]
Wednesday, October 08, 2025 @ 5:29 PM
Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has pushed back against the demands of five premiers that Ottawa should drop its novel arguments at the Supreme Court that there are substantive constraints on governments’ powers to invoke the Charter’s s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause — arguments that those five provinces contend “represent a complete disavowal of the constitutional bargain that brought the Charter into being” in 1982. ... [read more]
Wednesday, October 08, 2025 @ 4:28 PM
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal of a Federal Court decision that stayed a putative class action against alleged drip pricing practices by Uber Eats in favour of arbitration, agreeing with the lower court’s findings on consumer protection laws, incapability of performance and inequality of bargaining power. ... [read more]
Wednesday, October 08, 2025 @ 4:11 PM
The Federal Court has ruled that a port operator can rely on a $17,023 liability cap against a $6.4-million claim after it loaded about 21,000 tonnes of iron ore onto the wrong ship. ... [read more]
Wednesday, October 08, 2025 @ 3:20 PM
An Ontario court has given a warning that defendants should be wary of paying out settlement funds when facing a charging order. That was the finding by a three-judge divisional panel of the Ontario Superior Court in an action revolving around the enforcement of a charging order in a motor vehicle accident case. ... [read more]
