In Quebec, no fewer than 224 workers are injured every day on average1 in a multitude of different situations: a teacher is physically assaulted by a student; a newspaper deliverer suffers a fall in the poorly maintained entranceway of a customer; a construction worker is injured due to a crane operator’s negligence; a receptionist is harassed by her boss.
In the wake of the Autorité des marchés financiers’ (“AMF”) institution of proceedings notably against Amaya and its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), David Baazov, for alleged insider trading and tipping, a class action was commenced pursuant to section 225.4 of the Québec Securities Act (“QSA”).
This article first appeared in French in the Winter 2017 edition of the Copropriété Plus magazine.
With the increase of online platforms promoting and facilitating short-term accommodation rentals, such as Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway and several others, there has been a surge of lawsuits, judgments, articles and myths surrounding the horrors experienced by some lessors (and their neighbours) in connection with short-term rentals. All of this should prompt condominium owners and their co-ownership syndicates to seriously consider the potential impacts of short-term rental of their units and the pertinence of preventive or control measures.
Can an employer dismiss an employee for being incarcerated?
Class actions are constantly evolving and always reinventing themselves, knowing only as limit the creativity of litigants within the perpetual evolution of the law and business practices.
On August 9, 2016, the Tribunal administratif des marchés financiers (the “Tribunal”) formerly known as the Bureau de décision et de révision en valeurs mobilières (or BDRVM), rendered a two-part decision, the second part of which involved what is known as “spring loading”, now recognized as an offence under the Québec Securities Act.