Auditing firm Deloitte must pay $40 million in damages to a Canadian broadway musical company whose founders perpetrated a fraud that the auditor failed to detect, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a divided decision released Wednesday. Canada’s highest…
Canada’s highest court will decide June 1 whether it will hear an appeal from a major auditing and accounting firm that could face a trial this fall in a class action lawsuit filed by several banks over the bankruptcy in…
If the Supreme Court of Canada upholds a Court of Appeal for Ontario ruling against Deloitte & Touche, corporate auditors “will be encouraged to resign an audit before they feel they can responsibly do so in order to minimize the…
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it will hear an appeal from Deloitte & Touche, which was sued for $84 million in Ontario by the special receiver for Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada Inc., essentially for failing to detect…
A negligence lawsuit against the company that audited the financial statements of the entertainment firm formed in 1989 by Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb could reach the Supreme Court of Canada. In a decision released in 2014, the Ontario Superior…