The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) has recently delivered two companion judgments, Canada (Attorney General) v Fairmont Hotels Inc., 2016 SCC 56 [Fairmont] and Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. v Canada (Attorney...
The case of Styles v Alberta Investment Management Corporation, 2017 ABCA 1, [Styles], began with the termination of the respondent without cause. The question in this case was: what sort...
On November 4th, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) heard oral submissions in the case of Douez v Facebook [Douez]. The appellant, Ms. Douez, sought to overturn an unanimous decision...
In the civil litigation context, it has been a client’s longstanding right to challenge the reasonableness of his or her lawyer’s account for services rendered. Clients may apply to have...
