David Plotkin

Feb 6, 2024 | mondaq.com | David Plotkin

Ontario Court sets aside arbitral award, finding procedural fairness violation where arbitrator refused to admit evidence filed with consent. The Applicant, Mattamy, held a 49 per cent stake in the landholding company that owned the Downsview Project lands in Toronto. In the context of proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, Mattamy acquired Urbancorp's majority 51 per cent share in that landholding company. The transaction gave rise to several disputes.

May 16, 2023 | workingdads.co.uk | David Plotkin

A key development will be the impact of the UK leaving the EU. The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill means EU legislation will be repealed at the end of 2023 unless the UK chooses to retain it. However, if a clause is triggered the timeframe will be extended until 23 June 2026. Why does this matter? Because a considerable amount of our employment law comes from the EU.

May 15, 2023 | nature.com | Akito Y. Kawahara |David Plotkin |Fabien L. Condamine |Mariana P. Braga |Paul Frandsen |Hannah L. Owens | +34 more

AbstractButterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However, these hypotheses have not been extensively tested because a comprehensive phylogenetic framework and datasets for butterfly larval hosts and global distributions are lacking.