A quarterly selection of significant Canadian court decisions about arbitration practice and procedure, curated by The Honourable David M. Brown, FCIArb.
Each issue highlights recent Canadian decisions of practical significance to arbitration counsel, arbitrators, and the courts. Browse the archive below or open an issue to read it online.
Issue 4
Published July 2026
This issue leads with a Quebec court’s warning on AI-hallucinated authorities in award drafting, then surveys late amendments to leave applications, foreign-award enforcement, default procedure, and institutional impartiality challenges.
Issue 3
Published April 2026
This issue considers estoppel between serial rent arbitrations, a cluster of B.C. leave-to-appeal decisions, the reach of arbitration clauses over third-party claims, and enforcing foreign awards against non-parties.
Issue 2
Published January 2026
This issue follows B.C. developments on extricable questions of law, cross-appeal deadlines, and procedural fairness in costs, alongside Ontario rulings on interim and anti-suit injunctions.
Issue 1
Published November 2025
This inaugural issue examines leave and cross-appeal thresholds, the Sattva standard of review, competence-competence, and when an arbitrator’s handling of a disclosed conflict creates a reasonable apprehension of bias.