By Frédéric Bachand
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University.
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December 20, 2012
One decision of the Court of Quebec added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
December 14, 2012
One decision of the Superior Court added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
November 22, 2012
One decision of the Court of Quebec added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
November 9, 2012
Two decisions of the Superior Court and one decision of the Court of Quebec added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
September 14, 2012
Two decisions of the Superior Court added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
September 6, 2012
Two decisions of the Superior Court--including one dealing with the power of arbitral tribunals to issue injunctions--added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
August 23, 2012
Two decisions of the Court of Appeal, seven decisions of the Superior Court and one decision of the Court of Quebec added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
Of particular interest: Jefargo (may Quebec courts issue interim relief in support of foreign-seated arbitrations?) and Turenne (if a party failed to seek the annulment of the award within the mandatory three-month time limit set out in Art. 947.4 of the Code of Civil Procedure, may it subsequently invoke Art. 946.4 to resist the homologation of that same award?).
March 7, 2012
The Court of Appeal renders its highly-anticipated decision in Nearctic Nickel Mines Inc. (Recent Developments).
March 6, 2012
Added to the bibliography: Hussain, A. and Wilson, F., « La révision par les tribunaux de droit commun des décisions procédurales rendues durant l'arbitrage : perspectives comparatives », (2010) 1(2) Rev. d'arb. et de méd. 1.
February 29, 2012
Added to the bibliography: Union des consommateurs' report on consumer arbitration.
February 26, 2012
Added to the bibliography: Gilles, D., « La notaire, arbitre naturel des différends ? Une longue tradition québécoise », (2010) 1 Rev. d'arb. et de méd. 105; Gagnon, J.-D., "La convention d'arbitrage: les arbitres ou la cour ?", (2010) 69 R. du B. 3; and three articles published in the Mélanges en l'honneur du professeur Alain Prujiner (S. Guillemard, ed.): Bachand, F., « Un tribunal arbitral conventionnel peut-il prononcer des injonctions ? », Barin, B., "Harry Potter, five and a half Supreme Court decisions and reflections on the future of arbitration in Canada: Expecto Patronum!" et Gélinas, F., « Le contrôle de la sentence pour défaut de conformité de la procédure aux règles applicables: quelques questions ».
February 23, 2012
Documents relating to the current reform of Quebec arbitration law have been added to Section II of the site (Sources).
February 21, 2012
Seven decisions of the Court of Appeal, eighteen decisions of the Superior Court and three decisions of the Court of Quebec added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
February 11, 2011
A decision of the Court of Appeal on provisional measures and a decision of the Superior Court relating to the effect of an arbitration agreement on third parties have been added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments). Also noteworthy: a recent article by Professor Alain Prujiner, « Arbitrage et faillite internationale », in Développements récents en droit des affaires internationales - La faillite internationale, Cowansville, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2010, p. 177.
February 3, 2011
An important decision of the Court of Appeal on the notion of arbitration and a decision of the Superior Court relating to a multiparty dispute have been added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
December 15, 2010
Another decision of the Superior Court stating that arbitral tribunals do not have the power to issue injunctions has been added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
December 13, 2010
A major decision of the Court of Appeal concerning confidentiality in arbitration has been added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
December 7, 2010
A decision of the Court of Appeal concerning multiparty arbitration and a Superior Court decision concerning an "imperfect" arbitration clause have been added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
November 29, 2010
A recent decision of the Superior Court concerning the waiver of Article 943.1 of the Code of Civil Procedure has been added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
November 18, 2010
Twelve judgments of the Superior Court and the Court of Quebec — two of which are particularly rich — have been added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
A new casebook was recently published: L'arbitrage consensuel au Québec – Recueil de jurisprudence by Babak Barin and Marie-Claude Rigaud.
July 19, 2010
An interesting decision of the Superior Court concerning the effect of an ICC clause in a multiparty context was added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
July 13, 2010
One decision of the Court of Appeal, two decisions of the Superior Court and one decision of the Court of Quebec, were added to Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
July 8, 2010
Two decisions of the Superior Court — one of which touches on the power of arbitral tribunals to grant injunctive relief — are available in Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
Added to the bilbiography: Bachand, F. « La non-intégration de l'arbitrage international à l'ordre juridique du siège : réalité et conséquences », in B. Moore and G. Bras Miranda (ed.), Mélanges Adrian Popovici, Montréal, Éditions Thémis, 2010, p. 387.
July 7, 2010
One important decision of the Court of Appeal on the arbitrability of disputes relating to the winding-up of companies and four Superior Court decisions are available in Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
July 6, 2010
Two Court of Appeal decisions, ten Superior Court decisions and one Court of Quebec decision are available in Section IV of the site (Recent Developments).
© Frédéric Bachand