December 2, 2016
Scottish Law Commission consulting on penalty clauses in contracts
The Scottish Law Commission has just published its Discussion Paper on Penalty Clauses (PDF). In a news release (PDF) accompanying the discussion paper, the commission notes that it is “raising for consultation purposes the possibilities that the rule be abolished outright, or be completely replaced by new, much better-targeted rules to Read more…
December 1, 2016
Update on Australian strata-property reform
While BCLI works on its own Strata Property Law Project—Phase Two, it has been keeping abreast of developments in Australian strata-property law. Two Australian states have just made announcements on the progress of their new strata-property legislation. In New South Wales, what has been described as a “new era” for strata Read more…
November 28, 2016
Societies Act comes into force today
Today British Columbia’s new not-for-profit corporate statute, the Societies Act, comes into force. The new act replaces the old Society Act. Today also marks the beginning of a two-year transition period, for existing societies to transition from the old act to the new act. Both the government of British Columbia Read more…
November 7, 2016
BCLI Announces Appointment of Brent Olthuis to Board of Directors
The British Columbia Law Institute is pleased to announce that Brent Olthuis of the Vancouver law firm Hunter Litigation Chambers has joined our Board of Directors as a Member at Large. Mr. Olthuis is an experienced litigator whose broad practice in civil, commercial, administrative and constitutional law has brought him Read more…
November 3, 2016
Hong Kong Law Reform Commission recommends reforms to support third-party funding for arbitration
The Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong has just published a final report that caps off its project on third-party funding for arbitration. The Report on Third Party Funding for Arbitration (PDF) contains the commission’s final recommendations for reform of Hong Kong’s Arbitration Ordinance. This report covers some topics that are Read more…