US SEC prevented from expanding fraudulent scheme liability
Fraudulent Transaction Offence at s. 199.1 Quebec Securities Act : a Mens Rea Offence Autorité des marchés financiers c. Goyette 2022 QCCQ 2872
In late May 2022, the Court of Quebec Criminal and Penal Division issued its decision in AMF v. Goyette.
It is significant because it is the very first decision deciding that the market manipulation offence set out at section
What constitutes or not MNPI? Kitmitto (Re), 2022 ONCMT 12
In late May 2022, in one of the first decisions of the new Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal, the Tribunal issued its decision in Kitmitto (Re), an insider tipping and trading case. In Kitmitto, Ontario Securities Commission (OSC
Jurisdiction of Quebec Court in Class Action against Ontario Reporting Issuer on account of Fault Committed in Quebec and Injury Suffered in Quebec
Representative Plaintiffs Jon-Erik and Nicole Dillon (the Dillons) sought authorization from the Superior Court of Quebec (Court) to bring a class action against Wayland Group Corp (Wayland) under the general civil liability regime in Quebec
Objective Reliability and Materiality: Wong v Pretium Resources Inc., 2022 ONCA 549
In this decision the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Justice Belobaba’s dismissal of a securities class action on a motion for summary judgment on the basis that the defendant issuer had not made a misrepresentation by omission.
The respondent, Pretium