Good afternoon. Here are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 8, 2022.

Historically, the Hong Kong courts have generally recognised foreign insolvency proceedings commenced in the jurisdiction in which the company is incorporated. This may no longer be the case in Hong Kong following the recent decision of Provisional Liquidator of Global Brands Group Holding Ltd v Computershare Hong Kong Trustees Ltd [2022] HKCFI 1789 (Global Brands).

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Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 25, 2022.

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Following are this week’s summaries of the decisions released from the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 25, 2022. The Court was busy before its long weekend including one lengthy substantive case released.

On 6 June 2022, Mr Justice Harris sanctioned a Hong Kong scheme of arrangement for Rare Earth Magnesium Technology Group (the Company) in re Rare Earth Magnesium Technology Limited [2022] HKFCI 1686 (Rare Earth).

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Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 11, 2022. There were many interesting cases this week.

In Humphrey v. Mene Inc., the Court allowed an appeal in part and reduced damages for wrongful dismissal from twelve months to seven as a result of the plaintiff’s failure to reasonably mitigate by accepting another comparable position seven months after she had been dismissed. The awards of aggravated and punitive damages were upheld.

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Please find our summaries of the civil decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 4, 2022.

The first case has been decided under Australia’s statutory powers to set aside “creditor defeating dispositions”.

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Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 2nd, 2022.

In Poirier v. Logan, the Court upheld the permanent stay of an action for failure to disclose a partial settlement agreement with some of the defendants.

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These are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of April 25, 2022.

In its recent decision in Walton v ACN 004 410 833 Limited (formerly Arrium Limited) (in liquidation) [2022] HCA 3 (Walton), the High Court of Australia held, in a split decision, that the mandatory public examination power contained in section 596A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the Act) could be used by eligible applicants to examine directors and other officers of a company in external administration, including senior management, external administrators and trustees, about the company’s affairs for the broad purposes of enforcing and promoting comp