In this month’s webinar, Adam Kardash will be joined by Chris Naudie, Kristian Brabander, Tommy Gelbman, and Jessica Harding, Partners from Osler’s national privacy and data litigation team.

The semi-annual Data Litigation Roundtable will focus on key themes and takeaways from recent privacy and data litigation decisions across Canada, as highlighted in the Third Edition of Osler’s Privacy Jurisprudence Review (Fall 2024).

Among other topics, the discussion will cover:

• The assertion of privilege over forensic reports and other internal documents created in response to a data breach (LifeLabs v. Ontario IPC);
• The Federal Court’s latest decision about the concept of “commercial activities” when considering the applicability of PIPEDA (Parker v. Ontario Medical Association);
• Recent developments in data breach and data misuse class actions, including: judicial consideration of biometric data, causes of action that are successfully being certified, and the assessment of class-wide damages.

Continuing Professional Development

• Ontario: The program contains 45 minutes of Substantive content.
• British Columbia: This program contains 45 minutes of General content.
• Québec : Ce programme est admissible à 45 minutes de formation continue.

This organization has been approved as an Accredited Provider of Professionalism Content by the Law Society of Ontario.