Later this year, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the companion cases Kerr v. Baranow, 2009 BCCA 111 and Vanasse v. Seguin, 2009 ONCA 595. Both concern the rules for allocating spousal support between separated common law partners. While I do not expect the cases to add much beyond a gloss on an already robust line [...]

In Kerr v. Danier Leather, 2007 SCC 44, the Supreme Court continued its love / hate relationship with class actions. (For the Court’s previous posts on the case link) While positive statements about access to justice benefits were made in the Supreme Court of Canada’s original trilogy of class action decisions (Western Canadian Shopping Centres [...]

On October 12, 2007, the SCC released judgment in the case of Kerr v. Danier Leather Inc., 2007 SCC 44. This securities law case has been discussed by Yu-Sung Soh in a post on October 18, 2007. His post primarily deals with statutory interpretation within the context of potential prospectus misrepresentation, including the difference between [...]

The sound you heard coming from Bay Street last week may have been the collective sigh of relief from issuers of public securities, underwriters, and corporate lawyers. Or perhaps it was the cry of outrage from investors. Last Friday, the SCC released its much anticipated decision in Kerr v. Danier Leather Inc., 2007 SCC 44, [...]

This past Tuesday, a group of student editors from The Court, along with our faculty advisor, Simon Fodden, took a visit to the Supreme Court of Canada. We attended the hearing in Kerr v. Daniel Leather, a securities case dealing with an issuer’s disclosure obligations during the prospectus process. Simon Archer, who came along for [...]

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear the appeal in the Danier Leather case, a case which has been followed by the securities bar and is, sadly, not about bawdy houses in Montreal. At issue in this case is the interpretation of some key terms and provisions in the Securities Act (Ontario) (“material change” [...]