Viking Advocates, LLC (LexBlog Canada)

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  • Trucking injury cases and service in Canada

    At least two or three times a month, I’ll get a call or email that starts off like this: “Hi, Aaron.  I need to serve two defendants in Canada– an entity and an individual.  Can you help us out?” First question out of my mouth (after saying “you betcha”):  Is it a trucking case? “Yeah. ...

  • “Do I have to go through the Hague?”

    Let’s dig a little deeper into what that query truly means, because some variation of it pops into my inbox at least once or twice a month, from litigators in both the U.S. and Canada.  There’s a lot to unpack in those eight words, and a few things need to be clarified to get to...

  • They really don’t know what they’re talking about.

    Yet another rant here about advice from purported experts on service of process abroad.  The usual tidbits have been making the rounds of late, according to clients who’ve called me. As with many areas of the law, things usually aren’t as simple as they seem.  Sure, I often say to clients that serving in Canada...

  • An Index of Hague Service Convention Countries… and a How-To Guide for Each

    This blog carries a good many posts about country-specific procedures under the Hague Service Convention, and that’s completely intentional.  But until now, there hasn’t been a consolidated list of them, easy to click and access.  Here’s a handy index of “how to” posts for serving in the most prevalent countries in the Hague community: Canada—...

  • Specific Hearing Dates and the Risk of Rejection

    Due Process isn’t solely an American idea.  It goes by other names in other countries (natural justice in Canada), but it is still a bedrock concept in most judicial systems that espouse fairness and the rule of law.  Germany, in particular, views due process rights as inherent and inviolable (this is the central tenet of...

  • Notarizing Documents Abroad: Use the Embassy

    We have a pretty straightforward view of notarization in the U.S. and Canada … you sign a document, and a notary stamps & signs the same document, pointing to your signature and saying “yep, that’s the person who signed this.” It’s a handy tool for verification whenever the document needs to be used in court...

  • Serve a Subpoena in Canada? Take off, hoser.

    You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle.  Discovery commences.  In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow selling a knock-off of your client’s product through a distributor in Manitoba, and you are convinced that somewhere in...

  • SCOTUS Grants Water Splash Certiorari

    Ours is a small community, this group of lawyers who pay attention to Hague Service Convention cases.*  Last Friday, a big one came down the pike: the Supreme Court has granted Certiorari in Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon, a Texas case in which a defendant was served by mail in Quebec.  Now, Canada doesn’t object to service...

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