DIY investors fight back against trailer fees
Trailing commissions (also known as trailer fees) are intended to compensate mutual fund dealers, such as discount brokers, for investment advice they provide to investors. However, discount brokers are prohibited from providing investment advice under the law. Siskinds LLP is pursuing claim…
View the post titled DIY investors fight back against trailer feesRecent Developments in Securities Class Actions: Pre-Certification Jurisdictional Challenges
Today, capital markets are essentially borderless. Stock exchanges with physical trading floors have become an anachronism. Electronic transactions are the norm. With the click of a button, Canadian investors can buy and sell securities of foreign companies on foreign stock exchanges. But wh…
View the post titled Recent Developments in Securities Class Actions: Pre-Certification Jurisdictional ChallengesGoodbye, Backlogs; Hello, Agency Class Actions
Government agencies across Canada are struggling to process a growing backlog of claims. Few agencies are immune. In April 2018, an independent review concluded that Canada’s refugee determination system is dealing with a surge in claims that it is ill-equipped to manage. In December 2017, t…
View the post titled Goodbye, Backlogs; Hello, Agency Class ActionsHolding listed issuers to their word – for now anyway… Developments from the UK Court of Appeal on parent company liability for impacts abroad
Last year I wrote about a feature of the decision of the English and Wales High Court of Justice in HRH Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc[1], a case where residents of the Niger Delta brought a claim in negligence against Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), an issuer incorporated in England and listed on …
View the post titled Holding listed issuers to their word – for now anyway… Developments from the UK Court of Appeal on parent company liability for impacts abroadA good day for do-it-yourself investors: The CSA proposes to prohibit the payment of trailing commissions to discount brokers
On June 21, 2018, the Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) released a Status Report on their ongoing investigation into embedded commissions in the mutual fund industry. “Embedded commissions” is the term used to describe the practice of mutual fund managers compensating dealers (and t…
View the post titled A good day for do-it-yourself investors: The CSA proposes to prohibit the payment of trailing commissions to discount brokersCTV News Interviews Bridget Moran about ReproMed Fertility Class Action
CTV News interviews Siskinds LLP’s Bridget Moran for the ReproMed Fertility class action. Watch the full interview here. For more information or to join the class action, visit our web page: http://siskinds.com/repromed
View the post titled CTV News Interviews Bridget Moran about ReproMed Fertility Class ActionUpdate: SCC Grants Leave to Appeal on Umbrella Purchaser Issue
A recent hot topic in price-fixing class actions has been whether so-called “umbrella purchasers” have a cause of action. See our recent articles here and here. Umbrella purchasers are individuals who purchased the affected product from non-conspirator manufacturers. In support of umbrella …
View the post titled Update: SCC Grants Leave to Appeal on Umbrella Purchaser IssueSiskinds files proposed class action against Facebook
Note: This article was also published on AdvocateDaily.com By Rob Lamberti, AdvocateDaily.com Contributor A class-action lawsuit filed by Siskinds LLP against Facebook continues to collect plaintiffs who may have had their data scraped by Cambridge Analytica through an app on the popular soc…
View the post titled Siskinds files proposed class action against FacebookFacebook Privacy Breach Class Action
Siskinds’ class action lawyer Sajjad Nematollahi was interviewed for an article in The Toronto Star on May 2 regarding the class action that has been initiated regarding Facebook’s alleged privacy breach. Read the full article here. To learn more about this class action, click here.
View the post titled Facebook Privacy Breach Class ActionCompeting Class Actions: The Unsettled Law of Carriage Motions
Class counsel trying to predict the outcome of a carriage motion has little to learn from two recent decisions by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Carriage motions are unique to class actions. They arise when multiple class actions are filed for what is essentially the same case and co…
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