From: Gerard McMeel <Gerard.mcmeel@quadrantchambers.com>
To: Andrew Tettenborn <a.m.tettenborn@swansea.ac.uk>
Stephen Pitel <spitel@uwo.ca>
Obligations <obligations@uwo.ca>
Date: 26/06/2020 15:19:41 UTC
Subject: Re: ODG: Supreme Court of Canada on Unconscionability in Contract

The result reached by the majority looks unimpeachable. The dissenting view that we are the realm of international commercial arbitration has an air of unreality (but might succeed in London or perhaps New York, where such distortions of the common law tradition often succeed).


Gerard



From: Andrew Tettenborn <a.m.tettenborn@swansea.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 3:41 PM
To: Stephen Pitel; Obligations
Subject: Re: ODG: Supreme Court of Canada on Unconscionability in Contract
 
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It certainly does. On a quick reading it seems to me that there's a certain amount of platitude, and that we could have done with a more analytical approach. But I may well have missed something.

Andrew


On 26/06/20 15:01, Stephen Pitel wrote:

The Supreme Court of Canada has released its much-awaited decision in Uber Technologies Inc. v Heller:

 

https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/18406/index.do

 

I have not read it yet, but it seems to cite a great deal of academic authority around unconscionability.

 

Stephen

 

 

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Past President, University of Western Ontario Faculty Association

 


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