- Posts by Craig A.B. Ferris, KC, FCIArb.
PartnerCraig is one of British Columbia’s most accomplished litigation lawyers and acts for clients in commercial and business disputes. His particular areas of focus include shareholder remedies, trust, pension and fiduciary ...
Class proceedings are a powerful tool for consumers and lawyers. In practical terms, class proceedings allow otherwise uneconomic claims to be brought and often create large monetary exposure to Defendants. This occurs through aggregation. If a class proceeding is “certified”, it will “aggregate” all of the claims of a “class” of claimants into one claim. ...
The court process in Canada’s two western most provinces have much in common. Prominently, new Rules of Civil Procedure has come into effect in both British Columbia and Alberta in the last 8 months. Rules of Civil Procedure, often called Rules of Court, establish the procedures by which lawsuits are commenced and proceed in the superior courts of each province.
In British ...
On December 12, 2010, the trustees of four dissident parishes within the Anglican Church of Canada (the “ACC”) announced that they will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to hear their appeal from the decision that the lands and buildings used by those parishes are held in trust for the ACC. Effectively, this decision means that those congregations must vacant their lands ...
The repercussions of the first Gulf War have now made their way to the courts of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada has recently weighed in on whether Kuwait Airways Corp. ("KAC") could enforce in Canada a C$84 million judgment against the Republic of Iraq.
In 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait. Iraq ordered its national airline to appropriate aircraft and equipment ...
Over the last 20 years, the Courts in Canada have struggled with Pension Plan Administrators and Sponsors’ legal obligations as well as the legal rights of Plan Members in Defined Benefit Pension Plans. Luckily, in the last few years, some clarity has begun to emerge from the Supreme Court of Canada regarding these issues and this has been good news for Pension Plan ...
Recently, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that Conrad Black could proceed with six internet based libel actions in Ontario (Black v. Breeden, 2010 ONCA 547). The claims are based upon an investigation into Lord Black’s conduct as chairman of Hollinger that was published on the Hollinger website. The Defendants are directors, advisors and a vice president of Hollinger.
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