Civil and Commercial Litigation

In Cansica Holding Inc. c. Boidman, 2018 QCCA 2130, a decision rendered on December 14, the Court of Appeal endorsed Élisabeth Laroche’s reasoning in defending a lawyer against a claim for professional responsibility. The lawyer had omitted to file a suit to recover amounts owing to his clients, thus precluding them to claim their debt […]

RSS is proud to announce that Charles E. Flam, the firm’s Managing Partner, and Patrick Henry, a member of our Insurance Law Practice Group, have been named Senior Fellows of the Litigation Counsel of America. The Counsel is an invitation-only honorary society that was created to recognize deserving trial lawyers and to enhance their professional […]

In the course of the Journée du Barreau 2017, the Bar of Montréal paid tribute to the lawyers called to the Bar for 50 years. Charles E. Flam, Managing Partner and CEO of our firm, was one of the distinguished members thus recognized. The Bâtonnier of Montreal noted that the honour and esteem which Mtre Flam […]

Jean-Pierre Sheppard, of our Litigation Group, obtained an injunction order of safeguard against cable broadcaster Vidéotron ltée in favour of our client, a television station specialized in public security. By an earlier decision, the CRTC had issued an order compelling all distributors, including Vidéotron, to broadcast the television station’s programming on their cable networks, as […]

The Court of Appeal of Quebec recently issued its decision in  SNC-Lavalin inc. c. Société québécoise des infrastructures (Société immobilière du Québec), awarding close to 9 million dollars plus interest in compensation to the Société immobilière du Québec and the Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Trois-Rivières. These plaintiffs’ claim arose from defects […]

The Superior Court recently issued its decision in 86296 Canada Ltd. c. Shoppers Realty Inc., on an exclusivity clause in a commercial lease for a Pharmaprix outlet. The key issues were whether two shopping centres owned by the Plaintiffs were on “abutting lands” and whether one shopping centre was “owned or controlled by the Landlord […]