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In a recent decision rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada (Quebec (Attorney General) v. Guérin, 2017 SCC 42), the Supreme Court had to determine whether a medical specialist could submit to arbitration, pursuant to the arbitration regime created by the Health Insurance Act (the “Act”), his contestation of a decision rendered jointly by the Quebec federation of medical specialists (the “Federation”) and the Ministry of Health and Social Services (the “Ministry”) pursuant to a mechanism contractually established by them.

On July 4, 2017, the Court of Québec rendered a judgment declaring section 197.1 of the Building Act, which stipulates a minimum fine of $10,481 for acting as a building contractor without holding the appropriate licence.

The issue of whether or not the amount of legal fees incurred by a party is privileged, which seem rather straightforward, has sparked a great deal of debate over the last few years, most recently before the Quebec Court of Appeal in the matter of Kalogerakis v. Commission scolaire des Patriotes.

This article first appeared in French in the Summer 2017 edition of the Copropriété Plus magazine.

If you are planning on buying an electric vehicle and live in a condominium with a parking space, you will probably want to install a charging station in the building’s parking area. In order to do so however, you will need to undertake certain steps with your building’s co-ownership syndicate.

The first implementing regulations for the Act to increase the number of zero-emission motor vehicles in Québec in order to reduce greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions (S.Q. 2016, c. 23) (the “ZEV Act”) were recently published in the Quebec’s Official Gazette.

According to the summary of facts set out in the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, Equustek Solutions Inc. (“Equustek”), a manufacturer of networking devices in British Columbia, entered into a distribution agreement with Datalink Technologies Gateway Inc. (“DataLink”) for the online distribution of its products.