In-House Counsel
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August 13, 2024
Ontario court decides on carriage motion for securities class actions related to mining landslide
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has granted a carriage motion in a case of competing class actions related to a landslide at a mining site in Turkey.
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August 13, 2024
Court affirms denial of $125M professional liability claim by law firm due to late reporting
The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that certain professional liability insurers are not required to cover a $125 million claim because the insured law firm failed to report it within the policy period.
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August 13, 2024
Scope of judicial oversight of arbitral awards limited
In Clayton v. Canada (Attorney General), 2024 ONCA 581, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal of a set-aside application on jurisdictional and public policy grounds, confirming that the grounds on which arbitral awards may be set aside are narrow.
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August 13, 2024
Will C-suite executives be replaced by AI? Not so fast!
A recent New York Times article, “If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.,” posited that the apparent wave of development into artificial intelligence could lead to the outsourcing of a significant portion of C-suite duties. However, unlike previous concerns of the moving of work overseas, this article suggests that this outsourcing would instead be an “uploading” to machine artificial intelligence (AI). That said, the article clearly suggests that AI is a potential threat to some executives. And it got this executive employment lawyer thinking.
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August 13, 2024
Comparison of various parole systems yields surprising results| Michael Crowley
A few weeks ago, I read an article about how parole in South Carolina had virtually disappeared in recent years. The focus of the article (in the Marshall Project newsletter) was on the declining rate of parole grants and the disheartening effect that this had on incarcerated people, their families and their legal representatives.
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August 12, 2024
New human rights chief ‘steps down’ following law firm probe of his history & hiring
Federal Justice Minister and Attorney General Arif Virani has accepted Birju Dattani stepping down as the chief federal human rights watchdog, following a report from an independent law firm that the recently hired head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), among other things, failed to disclose during the hiring process his sometime-use of an alternative name “Mujahid Dattani” on Twitter (now known as X) and in other public fora.
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August 12, 2024
Medical device maker may pay up to $140,000 per patient to settle hip implant class action
Medical device manufacturer Biomet Inc. has entered an agreement to settle a class action concerning allegedly defective hip implants under which affected patients are set to receive up to $140,000 in addition to reimbursement for expenses.
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August 12, 2024
BCSC panel finds crypto trading platform defrauded customers of $13M
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has found that a crypto trading platform based out of the province committed fraud by “lying to its customers and diverting about $13 million of their assets to gambling.”
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August 12, 2024
Ontario Court of Appeal dismisses canned tuna price-fixing class action citing lack of evidence
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a class action alleging a price-fixing conspiracy in Canada's canned tuna market, ruling that the claim lacked sufficient facts to extend a U.S.-based conspiracy to Canada.
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August 12, 2024
Six First Nations file application challenging Ontario’s Mining Act as unconstitutional
Six First Nations have launched a court challenge against Ontario's Mining Act regime, charging that the province's free-entry mining system has been “flooded with newly registered mining claims” on lands that they govern, infringing on their treaty rights and Charter equality rights.