World-wide Mareva Injunctions in Common Law Canada

Preliminary Injunctions and Damage Rules in Patent Law

This paper shows that preliminary injunctions may be sought in patent cases to obtain market power during the period of the injunction and are likely to be sought only where there is a small probability that the patent will be ultimately found valid. Both patentee and alleged infringer benefit from a preliminary injunction. This is an artifact of the asymmetry of current damage rules. Altering ...

Criminal Law & HIV Non-Disclosure in Canada

The legal obligation to disclose was established in the 1990s, but the law became harsher in 2012 when the Supreme Court of Canada decided that people living with HIV must disclose their status before having sex that poses a “realistic possibility of HIV transmission” in R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C.1 The Supreme Court characterized even very small risks of HIV transmission as “a realistic possib...

Overview of medical malpractice law in Canada.

Financial Stability in Islamic Banking System the Capacity to React to Current World Wide Crisis

 This paper investigates the financial stability, measured by z-score technique in Islamic banking system of 20 countries from 2000 to 2010. We compare the stability of Islamic banks to the commercial banks, before and after the financial crisis. The empirical results from panel estimation show that: a) the large Islamic banks are more stable than the large commercial banks and furthermo...

Common Mistake in Contract Law

English Contract Law has long struggled to understand the effect of a fundamental common mistake in contract formation. Bell v. Lever Brothers Ltd. [1932] A.C. 161 recognises that a common mistake which totally undermines a contract renders it void. Solle v. Butcher [1950] 1 K.B. 671 recognises a doctrine of ‘mistake in equity’ under which a serious common mistake in contract formation falling ...