For the third year, Chuck is teaching a seminar at
Osgoode
Hall
Law
School
on Canadian,
United States
and Mexican Business and Economic Relations. The course outline, class notes and first lecture podcast are found on our “ Student Courses” link. |
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We are pleased to welcome Try Tan the first intern from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Bennett Gastle. Try (pronounced “Tree”) will work with Bennett Gastle until December 2007 assisting
Chuck Gastle
with consultation work for the Phnom Penh, Cambodia project with respect to the implementation of legislation dealing with WTO TRIPS 39.3. |
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Chuck was interviewed on BNN television regarding the NAFTA meeting in Quebec of Harper, Bush and Calderon. The focus was the Security and Prosperity Partnership which is designed to reduce regulatory impediments to trade and to build capacity within Mexico. It is essential for Canada’s future that this initiative continue at a time of growing protectionism within the United States.
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We are pleased to welcome Brad Pleavin as a new lawyer to the firm. Brad was called to the bar in 2006 and will practice in the areas of insurance defence, commercial and civil litigation, as well as assisting with the firm's international law practice. Brad comes to Bennett Gastle from a large national firm in Toronto where he gained broad exposure to a range of litigation matters. |
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Chuck traveled to
Cambodia for the third time, to present draft law on Undisclosed Information and Public Health implementing Article 39 of the World Trade Organization TRIPS Agreement. On June 9th-11th, Chuck traveled to Vientiene and Luang Prabang in
Laos and discussed WTO Accession from the TRIPS perspective. |
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Elizabeth Bennett-Martin was interviewed by Vera N. Held, on behalf of Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario, for an article appearing in HR Magazine regarding day to day HR issues. (Read Article) |
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Chuck appeared on BNN (formerly ROBTV) to discuss desire of Minister Emerson to negotiate a free trade deal with
China. |
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Chuck will teach “Globalization and Global Systems” as part of the Osgoode Hall Law School LL.M. program. This is the fourth time in the past five years that the course has been offered. |
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Elizabeth Bennett-Martin with the assistance of Danielle Young is successful in obtaining an order for costs against a solicitor personally where a third party claim was dismissed against the insurer’s employees as an abuse of court. (Read Decision)
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Bennett Gastle welcomes 21 students of the graduating class of the Magistère, Droit des Affaires Fiscalite et Compatabilite, Universite D’Aix Marseilles III from
Aix-en-provence. This is part of the
Osgoode
Hall
Law
School – Universite D’Aix Marseilles III exchange program. |
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Chuck is appointed to the steering committee of a new initiative of the Canada-Brazil Chamber of Commerce to promote bilateral trade with Brazil. |
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Chuck was a Guest Lecturer at the Magistère, Droit des Affairs Fascalité et Compatabilité, Universite D’Aix Marseilles III,
Aix-en-provence. |
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The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade published a paper by Chuck entitled “The Importance of Sustainable Aboriginal Cultures: Defining Aboriginal Trade Issues in the Context of International Trade”. |
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Chuck gave a workshop on International Trade and Aboriginal Procedures, at the National Aboriginal Forestry Association at its annual convention in
Ottawa
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A workshop conducted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to review legislative guides prepared for the implementation of TRIPS Article 39 dealing with the protection of undisclosed information in the approval process for pharmaceutical drugs and also for trade secrets. The Workshop was presented to members of the Departments of Commerce, Health and Justice as well as members of the Bar of Cambodia. |
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