The Court of Appeal for British Columbia’s ruling in Bollhorn v. Lakehouse Custom Homes Ltd., 2023 BCCA 444 brings attention to a potential gap in the domestic arbitration scheme, stemming from the combined effect of the Arbitration Act (BC) (the Act) and the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre’s (VanIAC) Domestic Rules for Arbitration (the Rules). Mr….
In an article entitled “Man accused in $78 million pump-and-dump scheme files B.C. court petition,” the Vancouver Sun shares developments in recent court filings made by British businessman, Kevin Miller against the Law Society of British Columbia. A 2015 US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint implicated Miller and others in artificially inflating stock prices…
Keith Fraser of the Vancouver Sun wrote the following article entitled, “Vancouver stock promoter who failed to report $600,000 in income avoids jail” that was published on May 12, 2020. A Vancouver stock promoter who was once featured in Canadian Business magazine has received a conditional sentence of two years less a day to be…
The Advocate Daily recently published this news release entitled, “Regulatory settlement not enough to determine liability in civil proceeding” by Kim Duong, a Toronto insurance lawyer. In this case, the plaintiffs tried to argue that a settlement, which one of the defendants entered into with the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, should be used…