The International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), a network of consumer protection authorities from nearly 60 countries, including the Competition Bureau of Canada, has published three sets of guidelines on ... [more] Full article

It is the best of times and the worst of times for Google. Its internet search engine has become a meme; its mobile operating system, Android, now powers 80.7% of ... [more] Full article

The Canada chapter of the 9th edition of The Private Competition Enforcement Review was authored by Affleck Greene McMurtry’s Competition Law team: Michael Osborne, Michael Binetti, Michelle Booth, David Vaillancourt, and Fiona Campbell. [more] Full article

Documents and information that the Competition Bureau collects from third parties during its investigations are protected by public interest privilege from disclosure to plaintiffs in private actions, the BC Supreme ... [more] Full article

Courts have begun to criticize plaintiff lawyers who file multiple overlapping class actions across the country. In Ontario, Perell J. refused to approve an agreement by two BC firms to ... [more] Full article