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Medical malpractice claims arise when a physician falls below the standard of care expected of a similar physician practicing in Ontario. Everyone who interacts with the medical system should understand [...]

ust over a week ago, Emma Zeb spoke at the Gatehouse Chambers seminar on brain injuries on the issues of capacity and vulnerability in the civil courts and asked whether [...]

Find this week's updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an undeniable impact on the Québec courts, and yet the pace of commercial litigation has remained virtually unchanged in 2020 as businesses continue to respond [...]

On November 13, 2020, Frankfurt Kurnit held its Third Annual Ethics Summit. The Summit consisted of three hour-long panels, earning the attendees three ethics CLE credits in New York and [...]

A 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court, in Desh Raj v. Balkishan (D) through proposed LR (2020 SCC Online SC 49), affirmed and reiterated the two distinct regimes under the [...]

Response to COVID-19 Last few weeks have been extraordinarily unpredictable for India due to the outbreak of Novel Corona Virus aka Covid-19. 'Social Distancing' is what is being preached across [...]

When companies and individuals become involved in a lawsuit in a jurisdiction different from where they reside, they typically choose to retain attorneys with whom they have worked before, rather [...]

26 March 2020 - Below is a summary of the key changes implemented under the most recent law ('Law No. 7226') enacted on 25 March 2020 to minimize the effects [...]

What just happened? Following just over a week of remote working with many businesses and schools closed, many of us are looking back at just how much has changed. Our [...]

As New York State and City continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting all aspects of life and work including the legal system, two orders issued over the weekend [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic develops, much focus is on its most catastrophic effects. Rightly so. However, it is also important during times like these to remember the 'business as usual' [...]

The High Court has held that proceedings were time barred where the claim form was issued in the English courts before the expiry of the applicable Greek limitation period, but [...]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Citing mounting costs of litigation that are siphoning funds that could otherwise go to abate the opioid crisis, a bankruptcy judge on Friday ordered a pause [...]

Can someone who is not a party to a court case in England get access to court documents? Does this extend to witness statements and documents lodged as evidence? What [...]

The question of when the provisions of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) Act will come into force looks set to be answered. Whilst the Act received Royal Assent [...]

In Benuik, the plaintiffs brought an action before the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) against the defendant municipality in 2009 based on an expert report suggesting that damage to the plaintiffs' [...]

With origins dating back to 1996 and claiming more than $350 million in patent licensing revenue, Finjan Holdings is a frequent plaintiff in U.S. patent litigation. The Israeli company claims [...]

Turkish Constitutional Court ('Constitutional Court') recently ruled on a case in which the administrative court rejected the applicant's claims against an Environmental Impact Assessment decision ('EIA Decision') due to the [...]

When can two years take more than 24 months? In Ontario, in the limitations context, a two-year limitation period is not always two years. The Limitations Act has governed limitation [...]

With the introduction of electronic filing which allows parties to file documents at court 24/7 we consider the recent case of Wright v HMV Ecommerce Limited (2019) in which the [...]

On March 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that you must have registered your copyright in the US Copyright Office before you can sue for infringement of the copyright. [...]

Registration of a copyright must be completed before suing for infringement. This was the recent unanimous ruling of U.S. Supreme Court. The high court's ruling in Fourth Estate Public Benefit [...]

Introduction The Court of Appeal has clarified the ambit of litigation privilege in a judgment (WH Holding and anr v E20 Stadium LLP [2018] EWCA Civ 2652) concerning the treatment [...]

In June 2018 we provided an overview of the Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC) interim discussion paper on class actions and litigation funders (available here).The ALRC has now released its [...]

The Supreme Court is set to consider the proper overall approach to discovery where the burden of complying with discovery is likely to be significant.Discovery issues rarely reach the Supreme [...]

Seyfarth Synopsis: In last week's blog posting, we explained to our readers how the #MeToo Movement impacted the class action litigation space in 2018, and accordingly became the fifth trend [...]

The number of ADA Title III lawsuits filed in federal court in 2018 hit a record high of 10,163 - up 34% from 2017 when the number was a mere [...]

Seyfarth Synopsis: On the governmental enforcement front, the change-over from the Obama Administration to the Trump Administration had little to no impact on reducing the pace of litigation filings and [...]

The battle over the interpretation and implementation of section 35 rights guaranteed by the Constitution Act, 1982 ('Constitution') has played out primarily in Canadian courts, with Indigenous communities and individuals [...]

I OVERVIEWIreland is a common law jurisdiction in which the courts are bound by the decisions of superior courts in the court structure.2 Almost 230,000 civil law cases were commenced [...]

Data breaches - always critically important to those with responsibility for storing, transporting and protecting electronic information - have become an all-consuming topic of late. Stories about data theft dominate [...]

Specially designed for large and complex international commercial disputes, the NCC offers effective and economical litigation options.In December 2018, the Dutch Senate unanimously passed legislation to introduce the international trade [...]

Nearly one year ago, on January 25, 2018, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Regulatory Reform Task Force issued a memorandum entitled 'Limiting Use of Agency Guidance Documents In Affirmative Civil [...]

In the Ontario Court of Appeal decision of Smith v. Safranyos, 2018 ONCA 760, the Court considered an appeal from the trial decision of a claim arising from a serious [...]

These cases suggest that federal prosecutors are motivated to dismiss qui tam cases that burden the government or interfere with agency operations or decision-making.In early 2018, the U.S. Department of [...]

Cadwalader attorneys reviewed a case concerning marketplace lending in which certain securitization trusts that had acquired the defendants' loans were charged for violations of the Colorado Uniform Consumer Credit Code [...]

Video game patents being asserted in litigation are frequently challenged by defendants at the Patent Trial and Appeals Board by filing a petition requesting inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review [...]

Byline: Mark Berman and Frances Stead Sellers A federal judge on Thursday denied a request from Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid to remain silent about an affair with [...]

Byline: Mark Berman and Frances Stead Sellers A federal judge on Thursday denied a request from Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid to remain silent about an affair with [...]