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Crawley, Alistair Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP
(416) 217-0806 acrawley@cmblaw.ca
Mr. Crawley provides representation and advice in a broad range of
commercial and securities litigation matters, with a focus on the capital
markets and financial services industry. His practice includes corporate
and contractual disputes, takeovers, directors' and officers' liability,
investigations and enforcement hearings, regulatory policy and compliance
advice and investment loss claims.
Cowper, QC, Geoffrey Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(604) 631-3185 gcowper@fasken.com
Mr. Cowper is a partner and leader of the firm's Litigation & Dispute
Resolution Group. He practices in class actions, competition law, general
commercial litigation and public law matters. His clients include Microsoft
Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada Group, UBC and Jim Pattison Group.
He is the former director and chair of the Legal Services Society, and was
appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997.
Coulombe, Marc-André Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3395 macoulombe@stikeman.com
Mr. Coulombe provides strategic advice on litigious issues and represents
clients at trial and appeal in his litigation practice, which extends to all
areas of commercial law, including contract law, corporate litigation and
shareholder disputes. He has developed a strong expertise in provisional or
extraordinary proceedings, such as injunctive relief and safeguard orders.
Cooper, Laura F. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-5471 lcooper@fasken.com
Ms. Cooper is Chair of the Ontario Litigation Group and Co-Chair of the Class
Actions Group. She has experience in class actions in competition, securities,
product liability, mass torts and employment. She is experienced in complex
alternate dispute resolution processes and represents clients in multi-
jurisdictional proceedings and commercial disputes.
Conklin, David D. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-5164 dconklin@goodmans.ca
Mr. Conklin has extensive experience litigating securities class actions and
other complex commercial disputes involving shareholder and partnership
disputes, allegations of breach of fiduciary duties and other governance-
related matters. He advises on internal investigations and responding to
securities regulators. He also teaches corporate governance and M&A
at Schulich and U of T.
Collins, Paul Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5577 pcollins@stikeman.com
Mr. Collins is a partner and Head of the Competition & Foreign Investment
Group. He specializes in competition law, in both transactional and general
compliance advice. He is a leading advisor for foreign investors in connection
with the Investment Canada Act. He served at the Competition Bureau from
2010-2012 as Senior Deputy Commissioner - Mergers Branch.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
run-of-the-mill, it's clear that the courts have been
facing an uphill battle.
Among of the top concerns of critics of the
Equustek decision is that it may be used by
courts in other countries as a tool to limit
Canadians' freedom of speech. "Canada has
liberal defamation laws," says Bernstein. "e
bar for defamation is reasonably high, and that
means the scope for freedom of expression is
quite broad. ere are countries where the
defamation law is much more onerous. We
wouldn't want the courts of, say, Singapore to be
telling Google Canada what [Canadians] can
and can't find when they search."
e good news, for those concerned about free
speech, is that the circumstances of the case are
quite specific, making it difficult for courts to
use it as a precedent in cases that don't involve IP.
"e question will be, how broad is its scope?" says
Little. "Do you have to have a pre-existing court
order that is being breached in order to get one
of these orders, or is it enough to show that there
is a flagrant violation of Canadian law? at will
be where the edges get pushed. at's one of the
places. e other place is, what does it mean to
facilitate a breach of a court order?"
Danielle Ferron is a Montréal-based senior
litigation partner at Langlois Lawyers, LLP and
"THERE ARE A LOT
OF COMPANIES THAT ARE
ALL VERY CONCERNED. …
THERE ARE COUNTRIES
WHERE THE DEFAMATION
LAW IS MUCH MORE
ONEROUS. WE WOULDN'T
WANT THE COURTS OF,
SAY, SINGAPORE TO BE
TELLING GOOGLE CANADA
WHAT [CANADIANS] CAN
AND CAN'T FIND WHEN
THEY SEARCH."
Andrew Bernstein; Torys LLP
