In Bhatnagar v. Cresco Labs Inc., 2023 ONCA 401, the Ontario Court of Appeal elaborated on the Supreme Court’s decision in C.M. Callow Inc. v. Zollinger, 2020 SCC 45 (“Callow”) and clarified that a breach of the contractual...more
Dans l’arrêt qu’elle a rendu dans l’affaire Wastech Services Ltd. c. Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage (l’« affaire Wastech »), la Cour suprême du Canada (la « Cour suprême ») a reconnu l’obligation générale d’exercer...more
In Wastech Services Ltd. v. Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage (Wastech), the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) recognized a general duty to exercise contractual discretion in good faith. This bulletin summarizes the SCC’s...more
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) recently issued a decision expanding the duty of honest performance, which applies to parties to all contracts, by holding that they cannot knowingly deceive one another about matters...more
Background - Six years ago, in Bhasin v. Hrynew (“Bhasin”), the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) recognized a contractual duty of honest performance.[1] On December 18, 2020, the SCC released its decision in CM Callow Inc. v....more
In C.M. Callow Inc. v. Zollinger, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) held that a group of condominium corporations was liable for breaching their duty of honest contractual performance when they knowingly misled a maintenance...more
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) recently granted leave to appeal from the British Columbia Court of Appeal's decision in Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District v Wastech Services Ltd., 2019 BCCA 66. The case...more
On September 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a $112 million win for Knobbe Martens client CardiAQ in its trade secret misappropriation case against former service provider Neovasc. A three-judge...more
The British Columbia Supreme Court has recently granted leave to appeal from an arbitrator’s award that applied a broad notion of the doctrine of good faith in the performance of a contract. As the court noted, the issues...more