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In the News – Online Obscenity

Toronto Internet Lawyer discussed the legality of posting the Luka Magnotta video on the Best Gore website with the national and international media. Mr. Zvulony took the position that the posting of the video violated Canada's obscenity laws.
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Winning Result: US$192 million American Judgment Recognized

A Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently ordered a former executive living in Ontario, to pay more than $200 million US dollars to aggrieved investors. The judgment is believed to be the highest ever awarded by a Canadian court. "To my knowledge, a judicial award of this magnitude is unprecedented in Canada", said commercial litigator Gil Zvulony, the Toronto lawyer representing the investors. "The interest alone is almost $30,000 per day".

Enforcing a USA Judgment in Ontario Canada by Summary Judgment

Recently, the Ontario Court of Appeal re-affirmed the principle that a judgment from the United States is usually enforceable in Canada, with very few and very limited exceptions.
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Enforcement of US Judgments in Canada: Case Comment

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Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Corruption Defence

Can a judgment rendered in a corrupt foreign tribunal be enforced in Ontario? Where a litigant can raise enough evidence that the foreign tribunal was corrupt, and that the corruption influenced the outcome of the proceeding, the judgment will typically not be enforced. However, in order to make use of applicable defences at the recognition and enforcement stage, the litigant must raise evidence of actual corruption by the particular foreign tribunal during the foreign proceeding.

About the Enforcement of Treble Damages in Canada

Treble damages are a form of damages by which the amount of actual damages is calculated and then multiplied by three. This head of damages is created by statute and is intended to be punitive in nature. Treble-damages laws are common in many United States jurisdictions.
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About the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Canada

Toronto Lawyers discuss the law of enforcing judgments in Ontario that were granted from outside Ontario (i.e. in the U.S.A).