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Substance Law Blog
CASL Compliance: The Comprehensive Guide
Understanding Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, commonly known as CASL, regulates commercial electronic messages, certain installations of computer programs, alterations of electronic transmission data, electronic address harvesting, and misleading…
Litigation Finance Journal
CASL Targets Australian Investors in Launch of New $150M Litigation Fund
By John Freund
Leading Australian litigation funder CASL today launched a $150 million fund giving local investors the opportunity to participate in funding of selected new class actions including product liability and other…
Litigation Finance Journal
CASL Funds Class Action Against Qantas Over Covid Travel Credits
By John Freund
As many industry leaders and commentators have predicted, we are increasingly seeing new litigation being brought to address institutional or corporate wrongdoing during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to the…
Litigation Finance Journal
CASL Banks $155MM Australian Investment
By John Freund
CASL, the Australian-based litigation funder, has announced on the company’s LinkedIn profile that it has secured a $155MM AUD investment. This content is for 1-3 Team Members, 7 Day Trial,…
Litigation Finance Journal
Key Takeaways from LFJ’s Special Digital Event on Australia: The Evolution of a Litigation Finance Market
By John Freund
On Tuesday June 15th, LFJ hosted a special digital event on Australia: The Evolution of a Litigation Finance Market. Moderator Ed Truant (ET), founder of Slingshot Capital, helmed a panel…
ILN IP Insider
THE FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL UPHOLDS CANADA’S ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION AS CONSTITUTIONAL
By Colleen Spring Zimmerman of Fogler Rubinoff, Catherine Hart at Fogler Rubinoff
On June 5, 2020, the Federal Court of Appeal ("FCA") released its decision in 3510395 Canada Inc. v. Attorney General of Canada et al., 2020 FCA 103, in which it upheld the constitutionality…
Michael Geist
CASL is Constitutional: Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Constitutionality of Canada’s Anti-Spam Law
Canada’s anti-spam law has been the target of intense criticism since its introduction in 2009 as the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. Even after the law passed in 2010, there was…
Franchise Law Update
Canada’s Horrible Anti-Spam Law Almost Got Even More Horrible
As many Canadians, as well as foreign companies doing business in Canada, now know, the cornerstone of Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) is a general prohibition against sending any "commercial electronic…
Canada in Focus
Why it’s time to revisit your CASL compliance measures
Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) came into effect on July 1, 2014. Almost three years later, Canadian businesses and their lawyers are still grappling with CASL compliance issues and trying to…
Competition chronicle
CASL, the Competition Act and Class Actions: A Primer for Forthcoming Private Enforcement
Now that 2017 has arrived, we are less than seven months away from private enforcement (particularly through class actions) for false or misleading electronic messages. CASL’s amendments to the Competition…