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In a recent decision, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recognised the English law schemes of arrangement of the Syncreon group under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, RSC 1985, c C-36 (“CCAA“). This was the first time a Canadian court was asked to determine whether proceedings under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 (the...

Canada’s drone industry is taking off. Like its neighbor to the south, the commercial remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) industry is growing quickly. In Canada, the industry has doubled in size every two years over the past decade. The economic impact of the expanding commercial drone industry in Canada and the U.S. is expected to...

Earlier this month, a leading group of Canadian power companies and government entities (although not the nuclear regulator) issued a “Canadian SMR Roadmap,” an 89 page plan for Canada to become a leader in small modular and advanced reactor development (there is also a smaller executive summary).  Although the roadmap takes a look at a...

Last week, Canada announced the creation of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), an independent officer who will be tasked with investigating allegations of human rights abuses linked to Canadian corporations operating abroad. The CORE’s predecessor, the Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor, required the permission of a company to investigate a...

What is forum non-conveniens? According to the principle of “forum non-conveniens” (or inconvenient forum), a court has the power to dismiss a civil action where an appropriate and more convenient alternative forum exists.  Variations of the principle exist in most common law jurisdictions, including England, Canada, the USA and Australia. In this post, we look...

Highlighting how government support can positively benefit a transformative, nascent industry, Canada has again taken a lead role in support small modular reactor (SMR) development.  The country has already garnered significant attention through its pre-licensing vendor design review process, in which seven advanced reactor ventures are participating and many more have expressed interest.  But in

After seven years of negotiations, the European Union (EU) and Canada signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on 30 October 2016. One innovative yet controversial aspect of CETA is the establishment of an international court to resolve investor-State disputes under the Agreement. As a result of demands by Belgium’s regional Walloon government, which...

Luxembourg: CJEU decision delivered on the Specific Mechanism (C-539/13) Summary of Decision The CJEU has recently clarified when patent and SPC rights can be relied on under the Specific Mechanism to prevent parallel imports within the EU. The holder or beneficiary of the patent/SPC is free to rely on such rights to prevent importation and...

In a recent client alert, partner Mark Parsons and associate Peter Colegate from the Hogan Lovells Hong Kong office highlighted the attention increasingly paid by privacy regulators around the world to the manner in which mobile apps collect, process, and transmit personal data.

Canada's new anti-spam law was passed in December 2010, and certain provisions will become effective 1 July 2014 -- including new consent requirements for e-mails and certain other electronic messages. As of 1 July 2014, an organization must have consent to send commercial electronic messages to an email account, telephone account or instant messaging account. In addition, CEMs must include...

Canada has ratified the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention).  Canada’s ratification of the ICSID Convention will enter into force on December 1, 2013, nearly seven years after Canada initially signed the Convention. Canada’s ratification should enhance the rights of investors under Canada’s many investment...

The U.S. Department of Transportation today imposed a civil penalty of $15,000 against FlightNetwork.com for violating the new full fare rule.  FlightNetworkOrder FlightNetwork is a ticket agent in Canada, whose primary customer base is in Canada, but it has sold some tickets to U.S. consumers.  Because it holds out air transportation to, from, or within...

Privacy law compliance means not only ensuring that compliance gaps are identified and remediated, but also that there is a privacy management infrastructure to ensure that privacy issues are handled on an ongoing basis. Attending to the infrastructure task can be challenging. To aid in this effort, on April 17th Canada's privacy commissioner, along with the privacy commissioners of the provinces

Industry Canada has released its Policy and Technical Framework (Framework) for the upcoming auction of spectrum in the 700 and 2500 MHz bands. Notice of the publication was published in the Official Gazette on March 24, 2012.  Back in November, when Industry Canada was seeking comments for this framework, we wrote: “the issue of how much...

President Obama met with the heads of state of Canada and Mexico on Tuesday, April 3 at the North American Leaders’ Summit.  Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Mexican President Calderon used the Summit as an opportunity to express their frustration with President Obama that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has not yet...

We are pleased to provide a report on Canada's new Anti-Spam Law from our friend Mark Hayes, one of Canada's leading privacy and Internet lawyers.

You are invited on Tuesday, 14 December to the first webinar with a comprehensive analysis of the FTC Privacy Report, presented by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and featuring Hogan Lovells' Chris Wolf, Director of the Privacy and Information Management Practice, Bob Belair of Arnall Golden Gregory, and the FTC's incoming Chief Technologist Ed Felten and Peder...