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LITIGATION POT
CONTINUES TO BUBBLE
A VARIETY OF BUSINESS CLAIMS ARE
BEING DISPUTED, THOUGH ARBITRATION
HAS CONTINUED TO BE FAVOURED AS THE
COURTS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO DECIDE
CASES. THE PANDEMIC HAS ALSO DRAWN
GREATER ATTENTION TO DISCLOSURES
OF RISKS, WRITES ELIZABETH RAYMER
NEARLY TWO YEARS ON, the effects of the COVID-19
pandemic on business may be lessening, but they continue to
keep the litigation pot bubbling.
"COVID-19 has thrown a lot of things up into the air,"
says Hugh Meighen, an international arbitration lawyer at
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto. "It's spurred a fair
bit of litigation, and litigation funding has coincided with
that development as a new opportunity within the legal
market in Canada."
Various business claims are being disputed, though arbitra-
tion has continued to be favoured as the courts have been slow
to decide cases. e pandemic has also drawn greater attention
to the importance of company disclosures of risks. And, there
are still delays in cases wending their way through the courts.
