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• Court Confirms Validity Of Arbitration Agreement And Class Action Waiver

Article by Robert Torralbo , Claude Marseille and Adam Spiro Copyright 2011, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Originally published in Blakes Bu...

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• Seidel v. TELUS Communications Inc. , 2011 SCC 15 ; [2011] 1 S.C.R. 531, Seidel v. TELUS Communications Inc., 2011 SCC 15, 2011 SCC 15 (2011)

...Barreau du Québec, Canadian Arbitration Congress and ADR Chambers Inc. Interveners. Coram:... Protection Act (BPCPA) stating agreements waiving or releasing rights, benefits or protectio...

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• Not Always Mandatory: In Seidel v. TELUS Communications, The Supreme Court Of Canada Allows Exceptions To A Mandatory Arbitration Agreement

Are mandatory arbitration agreements an effective bar to consumer class proceedings in common law jurisdictions? In reasons released in March 2011, a ...

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• The Canadian Position: Can Parties To An Arbitration Agreement Vary The Statutory Scope Of Judicial Review Of The Award?

Originally published in ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, Spring 2008, vol. 14, no. 2 I. INTRODUCTION The ...

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• New Police Recruitment a Problem, Union Warns

[Loren Schinkel], who's leaving the police association at the end of April to co-ordinate aboriginal municipal policing for the province, said Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz doesn't take the recruitment issue seriously. For anybody to say that we don't take policing seriously, that's tough to buy," he said. "I'd actually prefer we don't go to arbitration -- I'd rather people sat across a table, came an agreement and moved on... quite often arbitration makes decisions which have nothing to do with the city's ability to pay," he said.

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• August 26, 2009

• Hyperlinked Consumer Arbitration Agreement Prevents Class Action

Originally published Fall 2007 In a case decided under the civil law of Québec, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the validity of an ar...

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• Drafting The Arbitration Agreement In International Commercial Transactions: Stick To Writing For Now

Drafters of arbitration clauses have likely heard rumblings that, in recognition of the extensive changes in international contract practices and mode...

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• Rhodes c. Compagnie Amway Canada, 2010 FC 724 (2010)

... staying the action and to compel arbitration on the basis that the Federal Court has no jurisdi... under the terms of an arbitration agreement subscribed to by the parties. [3] When the Defenda...

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• Dell Computer Corp. v. Union des consommateurs, 2007 SCC 34 (2007)

...., and London Court of International Arbitration. Interveners. Official English Translation: Reason...The parties to an arbitration agreement are free, subject to any mandatory provisions by w...

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• Dispute Resolution Newsletter - Summer 2011

HOW TO STAY A LAWSUIT PENDING ARBITRATION – WITHOUT AGREEING TO ARBITRATE!. By Sarah Hud... are also parties to the arbitration agreement. But what happens where that is not so, for exampl...

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