The SEC crackdown on crypto-securities: SEC v. Ripple
It’s a busy new year for lawyers representing Ripple Labs Inc. (“Ripple”), as they prepare to face off with American regulators in the “Cryptocurrency Trial of the Century”. On December 22, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launched an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives alleging the violation of federal...
Continue reading the post titled The SEC crackdown on crypto-securities: SEC v. RippleTL;DR – Who reads the Terms of Use?
Business owners: do you think your customers read your website’s Terms of Use? Probably not. However, you probably want your customers to read it. Afterall, the Terms of Use sets out the backbone of your legal relationship with your website’s visitors. Throughout the years, Terms of Use have become so long and so technical that...
Continue reading the post titled TL;DR – Who reads the Terms of Use?Bikes and transit
As part of our commitment to a greener city, we are again sponsoring the Bikes and Transit website. This is a great resource for planning cycle excursions around the GTA, from the wine route in Grimsby to the beautiful Ajax waterfront, all by public transit. We have been delighted with the beautiful places we have...
Continue reading the post titled Bikes and transitFour Ways to Be a Better Neighbour: London By-Laws and How They Affect You
Although most of us are lucky enough to live next door to reasonable and friendly people, living in a City means that sometimes we get in each other’s way. If you are building a fence, have a dog or a pool or are planning a big backyard party there are some rules and by-laws you...
Continue reading the post titled Four Ways to Be a Better Neighbour: London By-Laws and How They Affect YouSiskinds 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 social media platform, says London, Ont. privacy lawyer Peter Dillon. The lawsuit represents at least...
Continue reading the post titled Siskinds files proposed class action against FacebookWest Virginia gets serious about liability barriers to brownfield revitalization
The Voluntary Land Stewardship Program is the critical innovation. It gives developers of rehabilitated contaminated sites certainty, by taking on their long term liability risk for a fixed fee.
Continue reading the post titled West Virginia gets serious about liability barriers to brownfield revitalizationClass Action Case Comment: Vester v Boston Scientific Ltd., 2017 ONSC 1095
Background The Defendants, Boston Scientific Ltd. and Boston Scientific Corporation (collectively “Boston Scientific”) designed, manufactured and sold transvaginal mesh (“TVM”) medical devices that were implanted into thousands of Canadian women for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence (“SUI”) and Pelvic Organ Prolapse (“POP”). SUI is the involuntary leakage of urine on effort or exertion, such...
Continue reading the post titled Class Action Case Comment: Vester v Boston Scientific Ltd., 2017 ONSC 1095Court grants defendant injunction and inspection order to investigate plaintiff’s property
In 2014, Metrus Properties sued Wrigley Canada claiming Wrigley’s neighbouring property had contaminated its property. When Wrigley asked to access the Metrus property to conduct environmental tests, Metrus refused. In April of 2016, the Superior Court of Justice granted an injunction to temporarily prevent Metrus from redeveloping its property and also ordered access to Metrus’s property...
Continue reading the post titled Court grants defendant injunction and inspection order to investigate plaintiff’s propertyOCA Clarifies Franchisor Disclosure Obligations
After getting off to a shaky start, the Ontario Court of Appeal seems to be finding its feet in the interpretation of franchisors’ disclosure obligations as mandated by the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure) 2000, S.O. 2000 c. 3, and its General Regulation. In the case of Caffé Demetre Franchising Corp. v. 2249027 Ontario Inc., 2015...
Continue reading the post titled OCA Clarifies Franchisor Disclosure ObligationsERT concludes turbine project will cause serious harm to human health
The Environmental Review Tribunal (“Tribunal”) has for the first time concluded that a wind turbine project would cause serious harm to human health. The Tribunal also concluded, as it did in an earlier case, that the project would cause serious and irreversible harm to an endangered bat species, specifically the little brown bat. The facts...
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