If a plaintiff located in Canada serves documents outside Canada but fails to first obtain an order for service ex juris, can the Court retroactively validate service?
The circumstances are important. Consider a situation where:
- both parties have an agreement that the dispute to which the documents in question relate is to be heard in Canada (in Alberta) and governed by ...
On September 4, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its decision in Chevron Corp v Yaiguaje, 2015 SCC 42. In a unanimous decision, the Court dismissed Chevron’s appeal, holding that Canadian courts have jurisdiction to enforce a foreign judgment whether or not the original dispute or the parties to it had any connection to Canada. The decision will have far-reaching ...
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