Contributors: The Hon. David C. Dingwall, P.C., Q.C., Kenneth Dekker, Michael Osborne, Fiona Campbell (Articling Student), and Brigid Wilkinson (Summer Student) An update on significant commercial litigation decisions released recently in Canada.

• Insurance companies hit with $455.7 million class action judgment
• Court of Appeal comes to the fork in the road – and takes it
• Alberta appeal court overturns unprecedented damages award to dismissed investment advisor
• Judgment granted in Ontario’s first-ever environmental tort class action
• The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes – Its time has come!
• Court refuses to add to the contractual obligations of the vendor of a business

A judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s Commercial List recently approved a plan of arrangement that eliminated the dual class share structure at Magna International Inc. (“Magna”) and ... [more] Full article

In a judgment released last July in Smith v. Inco. the Ontario Superior Court recently decided Ontario’s first-ever environmental tort class action judgment by awarding an estimated $36 million to ... [more] Full article