May 15, 2011
The Corporate Counsel Committee of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section will be presenting a “Brown Bag” Teleseminar: Competition Compliance: Up Your Game, Add to the Bottom Line, and Be a Corporate Star on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.
May 13, 2011
Canada’s Minister of Industry Tony Clement announced May 12th that he will be asking members of Canada’s oil production industry to appear before a new parliamentary committee to “explain their pricing methods to Canadians”.
May 8, 2011
The Competition Bureau has announced that Kason Industries Inc. plead guilty for its part in a customer allocation conspiracy and was fined $250,000 by the Federal Court of Canada.
May 5, 2011
We are pleased to provide this global competition law update from our friends at the leading Singapore firm Rajah & Tann.
April 15, 2011
On April 15, 2011, the British Columbia Court of Appeal allowed Microsoft’s appeal in the Pro-Sys v. Microsoft class action case. This important decision, in which the Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs’ action and set aside the earlier class certification order received, was issued concurrently with a second Court of Appeal judgment in Sun-Rype Products v. Archer Daniels.
April 1, 2011
OVERVIEW OF CONSPIRACY (CARTELS) UNDER THE COMPETITION ACT
As a result of the recent sweeping amendments to the Competition Act (the “Act”) the criminal conspiracy provisions of the Act, considered to a “cornerstone” of the Act and Canadian competition law, have been amended. Effective March 12, 2010, Canada will now have a dual-track criminal conspiracy regime with “per se” criminal offences for three forms of “hard core” criminal agreements (i.e., with no requirement to show any adverse market effects on a relevant market(s)) and a second civil reviewable matters provision under which other non-hard core agreements may be subject to review.
February 7, 2011
The United States Department of Justice (Antitrust Division) has announced that a California Real Estate Executive has plead guilty to bid-rigging at public foreclosure auctions, which in the U.S. is a violation of the Sherman Act (see: California Real Estate Executive Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging at Public Foreclosure Auctions).
February 1, 2011
The Competition Bureau announced earlier today that the pre-merger notification transaction-size threshold for 2011 will increase to CDN $73 million from the former 2010 threshold of CDN $70 million (see: 2011 Pre-Merger Notification Transaction-Size Threshold).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
