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Byline: CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS; THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Air Canada could have to pay more than $100-million in compensation to workers who lost their jobs at maintenance centres more than [...]

Introduction On June 14, 2024, the Superior Court of Québec issued a decision1 interpreting section 938.1.2.2 of the Municipal Code of Québec, which came into force in 2019. This provision [...]

Introduction On July 2, 2024, the Superior Court rendered a decision in Lallier c. Société d'assurance Beneva inc.,1 ruling on an insured's claim against his insurer for an insurance benefit [...]

Overview In dismissing an application for judicial review by Neptune Security Services Inc. (Neptune), the Superior Court of Québec clarified and confirmed certain obligations and powers of the Autorité des [...]

Byline: J. KELLY NESTRUCK; Staff I'm more comfortable criticizing plays than court decisions. But I have to give a mixed review to a March judgment penned by Superior Court of [...]

Byline: SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON, CHRIS HANNAY, CLARE O'HARA An industry group representing Quebec pharmacists is seeking court authorization for a class-action lawsuit against some of its own members, raising concerns [...]

Quebec Superior Court upholds arbitrator's jurisdiction to authorize derivative claims. Facts This case arose from an arbitration between Tidan and Trria. Together, they owned iQuartier, a Quebec numbered company. All [...]

The Superior Court of Quebec ('Court') recently published its judgment relating to the approval of a remediation agreement between the Public Prosecution Service of Canada ('PPSC') and Ultra Forensic Technology [...]

In insurance matters, litigation privilege is a frequent principle of law raised by litigators to deny the disclosure of documents. On February 2, 2023, Justice Daniel Dumais of the Superior [...]

Introduction On March 7, 2023, the Superior Court of Québec (the 'Court'), presided over by the Honourable Lukasz Granosik, J. S. C., rendered judgment in a case between Sommet Prestige [...]

Under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA),1 Canadian courts have broad discretion to order, extend or lift stays of proceedings. In a recent decision,2 the Superior Court of Quebec extended [...]

On December 3, 2021, in Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company Limited c. Pohoresky,1 the Superior Court of Québec (the Honourable Suzanne Courchesne) determined that it had jurisdiction to hear a class action [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Quebec prosecutors have received court approval for a deferred prosecution agreement with Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the first such deal since the new [...]

In a decision dated July 13 of this year, Justice Marc Saint-Pierre of the Quebec Superior Court ordered that an employee who had been guaranteed a job 'for life' by [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been, and continues to be, the source of many uncertainties for employers. Among other things, the characterization of the COVID-19 pandemic as an element of superior [...]

In 2020, the Superior Court of Québec considered for the first time a contested reverse vesting order (RVO) transaction, in the proceedings of Nemaska Lithium Inc. pursuant to the Companies' [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET, Staff Lead SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. and other companies that built Montreal's new Champlain Bridge are suing the Canadian government for damages in a case analysts say [...]

Overview In CC/Devas (Mauritius) Ltd. c. Republic of India, 2022 QCCS 7, the Superior Court of Quebec had to determine whether the assets of two state-owned agencies were validly seized [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Lead DavidsTea Inc. has taken a step toward exiting insolvency after the Quebec Superior Court approved its plan to pay creditors $18-million. The company [...]

Byline: SHEEMA KHAN Lead Author of Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman A pril 20 was a day marked by sharp contrasts in judicial verdicts relating [...]

Lead A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled this week that the province's law banning teachers, police officers and other government employees from wearing religious dress is an infringement of the [...]

Byline: LES PERREAUX, Staff Lead A Quebec Superior Court judge has upheld most of the province's law banning religious dress in some public-service functions but carved out an exception for [...]

In the proceedings of Groupe Dynamite under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) (CCAA), the Québec Superior Court was called upon to consider a pressing question during these pandemic times: [...]

Byline: SIDHARTHA BANERJEE, THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Lead A Montreal man who pleaded guilty just 12 days ago to fatally stabbing his unborn child told a Quebec Superior Court [...]

Lead A critical part of Canada's law on medically assisted death was struck down by a Quebec court on Wednesday - a development a lot of people saw coming from [...]

In June 2013, the AMF laid two penal charges against Mr. Forget, the president and CEO of Clemex Technologies, a public company, alleging that he would have manipulated its stock [...]

On August 27, 2019, Quebec's Court of Appeal overturned the Quebec Superior Court's decision to give post-filing claims priorities over secured creditors' claims, stating that section 11.01 of the CCAA [...]

The Qu?bec Superior Court (QSC) recently struck down as unconstitutional back-to-work legislation (Bill 1271) aimed at the Qu?bec government's advocates and notaries. The decision, released on September 18, 2019, builds [...]

Montréal (September 13, 2019) - BLG was successful in having dismissed the Motion to Authorize a Class Action related to overlimit transactions and fees on credit cards. This is a [...]

On May 30, 2019, Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Suzanne Gagné dismissed the motion for leave to appeal the decision of the Quebec Superior Court in Commission scolaire de la [...]

In its recent decision in Godin c. Aréna des Canadiens inc. (Decision), the Québec Superior Court (Court) refused to authorize an employment class action against Aréna des Canadiens inc. and [...]

In a judgment rendered on May 8, 2019, the Quebec Court of Appeal1 upheld a Superior Court decision2 dismissing a class action in which the plaintiffs alleged that a manufacturer [...]

Some court decisions rendered over the last few years indicate that a franchisor who fails to provide an operations manual to each of its franchisees commits a breach of its [...]

The Quebec Superior Court has ordered engineering firm Genivar (now WSP Canada) to pay a $4 million fine for its involvement between 2002 and 2011 in a bid-rigging scheme that [...]

A recent decision1 has set the record straight by reaffirming a principle that some decision-makers at the Administrative Labour Tribunal (ALT) tend to want to set aside: section 124 ALS [...]

In Arrangement relatif - Ferreira, 2018 QCCS 3891 ('Ferreira'), the Quebec Superior Court recently annulled an assignment in bankruptcy that had been filed in Ontario in an attempt to subvert [...]

This article is a modified version of a case comment initially published by Éditions Yvon Blais in September 2018 (EYB2018REP2538). The expert plays a critical role in the adversarial judicial [...]

In Mallat c. Autorité des marchés financiers de France, Justice Carol Cohen of the Superior Court of Quebec clarified how foreign authorities can obtain the help of Quebec's financial regulator, [...]

In July 2018, the Superior Court of Québec held that the Québec government's controversial attempt to force Internet service providers ('ISP's) to block certain iGaming sites is unconstitutional. By way [...]

On July 9, 2018, Justice Pierre Ouellet dismissed a Wellington motion brought by Construction CGP Inc. and Les Entreprises Rosario Martel Inc. (the Insureds) against four insurance companies (the Insurers). [...]

Funds remaining after administration of a class action settlement can represent significant sums of money. Judges in Quebec have relatively broad discretion to decide how these sums will be distributed [...]

HIGHLIGHTS * A Justice of the Quebec Superior Court has granted a Quebec beekeeper the authority to commence a class action on behalf of Quebec beekeepers against Bayer CropScience Inc., [...]

On June 19, 2017, the Quebec Superior Court ('the Court') handed down a decision1 on the immunity from seizure granted by the Indian Act ('the Act').2 The defendant, Mr. Robertson, [...]

Interlocutory injunctions can be an important litigation tool to remedy situations where quick relief is necessary to prevent damages from infringement. While the Federal Court of Canada is often the [...]

Interlocutory injunctions can be an important litigation tool to remedy situations where quick relief is necessary to prevent damages from infringing activity. While the Federal Court is often the preferred [...]

No, we will not let you go. - Queen, 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. In the latest twist in the long-running attempt to settle Canada Post Corporation's ('Canada Post') 'Free for Life' internet [...]