securities

Securities regulators provide guidance to investors and market participants during COVID-19 pandemic

Kenneth A. Dekker
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP December 10th, 2020

After an initial sharp downturn in the Spring of 2020, it would appear that the capital markets are the least of most people’s worries during the COVID-19 pandemic. But we ... [more] Full article

Has the OSC’s “special treatment” by appeal courts come to an end?

Kenneth A. Dekker
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP September 17th, 2020

Appeals are usually an uphill battle for the party that loses at trial, but for more than two decades the hill has been even steeper for losing parties before the ... [more] Full article

Superior Court refuses to certify $100 million auditor’s negligence class action

Kenneth A. Dekker
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP May 8th, 2020

In a decision released early this year, Mr. Justice Paul Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice refused to certify a proposed $100 million class action against the former ... [more] Full article

Can an opinion be a misrepresentation? It depends on what you include in it. How misrepresentations made in opinions are treated under s. 138.3 of the Securities Act.

Karen Bernofsky
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP October 16th, 2019

In a decision released on October 9, 2019 in DALI Local 675 Pension Fund (Trustees) v. Barrick Gold, 2019 ONSC 4160 (“DALI”) Justice Belobaba of the Ontario Superior Court considered ... [more] Full article