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Posted on April 28, 2022April 26, 2022

B.C. – Appeal of award granted; arbitrator re-wrote parties’ contract – #611

…case law [Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65; Sattva Capital Corp. v Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53 at para. 106; Teal Cedar Products Ltd.,…

Posted on June 28, 2021October 12, 2021

B.C. – no breach of natural justice where arbitrator invites submissions on new issue but declines to incorporate them in award – #508

…Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 as having reset the standard applicable to MacNaughton J.’s review of the Partial Final Award.  HGD argued that the…

Posted on January 12, 2021May 1, 2021

B.C. – commercial dispute “foundationally different” from investor-state claim – #409

…in its reasons. Third, he next referred to both Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 and to Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014…

Posted on March 22, 2020January 3, 2021

Québec – court’s intervention on challenge to award on jurisdiction is not judicial review – #296

…(a) if the court’s intervention was judicial review, then it would have to follow the principles recently restated in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65;…

Posted on February 7, 2025February 10, 2025

Alberta – Court rejects Ontario approach to stays of enforcement – #892

…Venture See Ltd, 2003 MBQB 293 at para. 12). Arbitration Matters previously covered other decisions in the Shelter litigation, including in Manitoba – Vavilov inapplicable to arbitration appeals – #709;…

Posted on April 27, 2023April 24, 2023

Ontario –Arbitrator erred by allowing surrounding circumstances to overwhelm written agreement – #733

…then turned to the applicable standard of review on appeals of arbitral awards noting the Supreme Court of Canada decisions in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019…

Posted on April 7, 2020January 3, 2021

Québec – judicial protection of parties’ confidentiality promotes public interest in arbitration – #305

…and whether the award is therefore subject to judicial review principles under Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 or commercial arbitration approaches applied by Sattva…

Posted on February 26, 2021April 24, 2021

Québec – ‘best to leave it to the Supreme Court to reverse or distinguish its own majority decisions’ – #431

…Vavilov applies to private commercial arbitration where legislation provides for appeal – #420”. Canada’s Supreme Court in Wastech Services Ltd. v. Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, 2021 SCC 7…

Posted on June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

Manitoba – ‘reckless’ and ’unfounded’ allegations against S counsel regarding arbitration record justify personal costs order against C counsel – #486

…Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 but commented that he found “persuasive, certain aspects of the reasons and conclusions set forth” in Cove Contracting Ltd. v. Condominium Corporation No. 012…

Posted on March 8, 2021

B.C. – authority to award actual reasonable legal costs a “desirable feature” not a “chilling effect” – #442

…that a standard of correctness applied because their appeal arose from statute and Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 had changed the standard of review…

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