• Cross-border Country Q&A - Canada
    December 01, 2006
    Martin Kratz and Stephen Burns, authors of the chapter on cross-border privacy and data protection in Canada in the Practical Law Company's IP & IT Volume 2: Data Protection 2006/07 (pg. 15-23).
  • Directors' Duties in Canada 3rd ed.
    December 01, 2006
    Published by CCH Canadian.
  • Directors' Duties in Canada, 3rd ed.
    December 01, 2006
    The following members of the corporate governance group were involved in the writing of various chapters of Directors' Duties in Canada, 3rd ed., by Barry Reiter (CCH Canadian). Heather Forester was the book's editor.
  • OSC/SEC Recent Developments of Importance
    December 01, 2006
    "OSC/SEC Recent Developments of Importance" (with David Hausman) (2006), Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 581; The 2006/2007 Lexpert CCCA/ACCJE Corporate Counsel Directory and Yearbook
  • The Washington Diaries: 1981-1989
    December 01, 2006
    Published by McClelland & Stewart.
  • Emerging Issues in Corporate Governance - November 2006
    November 30, 2006
    Corporate governance remains a dynamic and evolving area of law and practice. Over the past year, a number of new issues have emerged that warrant consideration by directors and senior management. In this article we highlight a number of the more significant emerging issues in corporate governance in Canada.
  • Stock Options Backdating: Part I
    November 30, 2006
    US securities regulators are making life miserable for counsel involved in this latest series of scandals. This column launches a two-part series examining the potentially serious consequences of backdating stock options. Published in the November/December 2006 issue of Lexpert magazine as part of Barry Reiter's regular column.
  • Complying With 2006 Alberta Pension Reform
    November 20, 2006
    On August 10, 2006, the Employment Pension Plans Amendment Act, 2005 and the Employment Pension Plans Amendment Regulation took effect, introducing a series of long-anticipated amendments to the Alberta Employment Pension Plans Act and the Employment Pension Plans Regulation. These changes, several of which will require plan sponsors to amend their plans, affect plans registered in Alberta as well as plans registered outside of Alberta with Alberta members.
  • Seeking Interim Measure from a Canadian Court in International Commercial Arbitration: Putting Confidentiality at Risk
    November 17, 2006
    Paper presented at the National Conference of the ADR Institute of Canada held in Calgary on November 17, 2006. A PDF copy of the paper can be downloaded from the ADR Institute of Canada website, or by clicking here.
  • U.S. Case Comment: Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals Ltd.
    November 15, 2006
    "U.S. Case Comment: Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals Ltd.," appeared in volume 16, number 1, of Environews, the Ontario Bar Association's Environmental Law Section newsletter.
  • Is Your Business Ready for the End of Mandatory Retirement in Ontario?
    November 09, 2006
    The Ending Mandatory Retirement Statute Law Amendment Act, 2005 comes into effect on December 12, 2006. Subject to some limited exceptions, as of December 12, 2006, provincially regulated employers in Ontario will not be able to use mandatory retirement policies to terminate the employment of older workers.
  • New Tax Proposals for Income Trusts
    November 08, 2006
    It has been a week since the Federal Minister of Finance announced a new taxing regime for publicly-traded income trusts and limited partnerships. The stated goal of the announcement was to “level the playing field” by stopping the spread of income trusts by ensuring that corporations that were considering conversions would abandon their plans, while at the same time providing a limited shelf life for the tax benefits available to existing income trusts and partnerships.
  • Recent Developments in Environmental Law - November 2006
    November 08, 2006

  • Pension Review Tribunal Faces Daunting Task
    November 01, 2006
    Susan G. Seller, "Pension Review Tribunal Faces Daunting Task”, Law Times.
  • Reverse Conversions of Mutual Fund Trusts to Corporations: Treatment of Outstanding Trust Unit Options
    November 01, 2006
    Anu Nijhawan, "Reverse Conversions of Mutual Fund Trusts to Corporations: Treatment of Outstanding Trust Unit Options" (2006) XVIII(4) Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement 753. Reprinted with the permission of Federated Press.
  • Copyright in the Digital World: The Latest Word from the Supreme Court of Canada
    October 26, 2006
    The Supreme Court of Canada has recently ruled on a much anticipated copyright case, Robertson v. Thomson Corporation (unreported, October 12, 2006). The case involved the clash of the rights of copyright holders and the effect of the digitization of original works.
  • Fraud and the Corporation
    October 15, 2006
    Published in the October 2006 issue of Lexpert magazine.
  • Comity if Necessary but Not Necessarily Comity: Judicial Cooperation and Deference in an Age of Corporate Crackdowns
    October 01, 2006
    This article considers the legal issues arising from this tension between comity and sovereignty. The article begins by discussing the concepts of sovereignty and comity, and explains how those concepts have been developed in the sixteen years since Morguard.
  • Supreme Court of Canada Issues Two Recent Decisions on Solicitor-Client Privilege
    September 18, 2006
    The Supreme Court of Canada has considered the duration of litigation privilege, and concluded that litigation privilege is terminated when the litigation for which the privileged communications were created comes to an end, in Blank v. Canada (Minister of Justice), 2006 SCC 39.
  • Decision Promotes Openness With Patent Office
    September 15, 2006
    Martin Kratz, "Decision Promotes Openness With Patent Office", the September 15, 2006, edition of The Lawyers Weekly, p.12.
  • Executive Pay: Lessons from the Wonderful World of Disney
    September 15, 2006
    Disney's battle over its US$140 million payout to fired executive Michael Ovitz could likely have been prevented. Published in the September 2006 issue of Lexpert magazine as part of Barry Reiter's regular column.
  • New Developments in Environmental Law
    August 21, 2006

  • Director Compensation: Making Difficult Decisions
    July 31, 2006
    Directors caught in the squeeze between more duties and greater accountability are looking for a raise. Things to think about when the money question comes up. Published in the July/August 2006 issue of Lexpert magazine as part of Barry Reiter's regular column. Co-authored by Aaron Emes.
  • Alberta Securities Act To Be Amended To Provide For Secondary Market Civil Liability
    July 06, 2006
    The Government of Alberta has opted to follow the lead of its Ontario counterpart and amend the Securities Act (Alberta) to include a secondary market civil liability regime. Bill 25, which includes a number of other amendments to the Securities Act (Alberta), received third reading in the Alberta Legislature on May 16, 2006 and royal assent on May 24, 2006.
  • Federal Dividend Tax Changes
    July 02, 2006
    On June 29, 2006 the Minister of Finance released draft legislation to overhaul the federal taxation of corporate dividends. The proposals were promised in the February Budget, and implement the general proposals made on November 23, 2005, by the previous Liberal government.
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