The Role of Class Actions in Price-Fixing Enforcement
Introduction I’ve spent my legal career acting for plaintiffs in price-fixing class actions, a somewhat obscure niche which, until recently, simultaneously confounded and fascinated most people I met. Last fall, the Canadian Competition Bureau raided the offices of several major grocery chains, investigating a fourteen-year price-fixing conspiracy affecting bread prices. This aroused the public’s interest...
Continue reading the post titled The Role of Class Actions in Price-Fixing EnforcementThe Rise And Fall Of Chadha v Bayer
Introduction Although numerous price-fixing conspiracy class actions have been commenced in Canada, only a relatively small number have proceeded to a contested certification motion. For those that have proceeded to a contested certification, one of the main challenges for plaintiffs has been overcoming the high evidentiary threshold established primarily by the Ontario Court of Appeal...
Continue reading the post titled The Rise And Fall Of Chadha v BayerFlash Memory
This class action alleges that the Defendants unlawfully conspired to fix, increase, and/or maintain prices at which Flash Memory or products containing Flash Memory were sold in Canada. The plaintiffs allege that from at least January 1, 1999 through to the present, the defendants and their senior executives participated in illegal and secretive meetings and...
Continue reading the post titled Flash MemoryImperial Metals Corporation
Siskinds LLP and Groia & Company Professional Corporation represented the Plaintiff in a certified class action against Imperial Metals Corporation (“Imperial”) and certain of its directors, officers and related parties in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The class action is brought on behalf of all persons and entities, wherever they may reside, who acquired...
Continue reading the post titled Imperial Metals CorporationImax Corporation
In September 2006, Siskinds LLP filed a class proceeding against IMAX Corporation (“IMAX”) and certain of its directors and officers (the “Ontario Class Action”). The action concerns IMAX’s revenue recognition practices for the 2005 fiscal year. The statement of claim alleges that IMAX and certain of its directors and officers overstated IMAX’s revenues for 2005,...
Continue reading the post titled Imax CorporationCivil Motions in the Superior Court of Justice: A Practical Guide
A motion is a formal request to the Court for an Order. Some motions will be contested, some will be on consent, and for others no position will be taken by opposing counsel. Motions address many issues: routine requests to amend pleadings, contested matters like compelling a certain party to attend at an examination for...
Continue reading the post titled Civil Motions in the Superior Court of Justice: A Practical GuideCarbonless Paper
This class action alleges that the Defendants unlawfully conspired to fix, increase, and/or maintain prices in the market for carbonless paper. The Plaintiff alleges that between at least October 1999 and September 2000, the Defendants and their senior executives, employees and agents struck agreements in respect of carbonless paper relating to the preservation of market...
Continue reading the post titled Carbonless PaperStatic Random Access Memory (“SRAM”)
The SRAM class action alleges that the Defendants unlawfully conspired to fix, increase, and/or maintain prices at which SRAM or products containing SRAM were sold in Canada. The plaintiff alleges that from at least January 1, 1998 to December 31, 2005, the defendants and their senior executives participated in illegal and secretive meetings and made...
Continue reading the post titled Static Random Access Memory (“SRAM”)Interior molded doors
On May 15, 2020, Siskinds, Desmeules, the Quebec firm affiliated with Siskinds LLP, commenced a proposed class action against against two of the largest Interior Molded Door manufacturers in North America – JELD-WEN Inc., Masonite International Corporation, and their subsidiaries (the “Defendants”). On September 9, 2020, Siskinds LLP filed a similar proposed class action lawsuit in...
Continue reading the post titled Interior molded doorsSNC-Lavalin Group Inc. II (2019)
On February 6, 2019, Siskinds LLP and Siskinds, Desmeules Avocats s.e.n.c.r.l., filed a proposed securities class action in Québec against SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (“SNC”), SNC’s President and Chief Executive Officer Neil Bruce, and SNC’s Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer Sylvain Girard (the “Action”). The Action alleges that persons who acquired SNC shares between February...
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