Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Our team of experienced litigators and skilled litigation support personnel take a business-like approach to conflicts, considering all possibilities for an alternative dispute resolution. Our lawyers have successfully represented regional, national, and international clients in litigation matters involving:
- Corporate banking,
- Securities,
- Bankruptcy,
- Municipal law,
- Environmental law,
- Construction,
- Product liability,
- Insurance, and
- Tax and intellectual property issues.
We act on disputes in all arms of our clients’ businesses, on matters large and small, in courts and in arbitration, mediation and other types of alternate dispute resolution.
Insights
Throughout the year, our litigation and alternative dispute resolution lawyers provide written insights and updates on recent case law and legislation in the region and beyond. To learn more about relevant topics, click on one of the following titles:
- The cost of doing justice – judicial salaries and the rule of law in Newfoundland and Labrador (Provincial Court) v. Newfoundland
- The clock is ticking: Limitation periods vs. settlement privilege in Balsom v. Rideout
- Right time to strike – Courts less reticent to strike pleadings in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Corner Brook (City) v. Bailey: Canada’s top court clarifies the law of releases
- Immunity for police commission and its executive director in Oland complaint lawsuit
- Clarity on the limitation period for third party claims in Nova Scotia
- Duty of honest performance in termination of commercial contracts – the Supreme Court of Canada elaborates in Callow v. Zollinger, 2020 SCC 45
