ADR
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April 08, 2022
BlackBerry Ltd. settles class action with plaintiffs for $165 million in N.Y. District Court
BlackBerry Limited has reached an agreement in principle to settle the consolidated securities class action lawsuit in Pearlstein v. BlackBerry Limited, et al., Case No. 13 Civ. 7060 (CM) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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April 04, 2022
OBA report casts spotlight on lack of ‘neutral diversity’ in mediation, arbitration
The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) has released a report highlighting the lack of diversity of arbitrators and mediators being hired in the province. The OBA’s research in this area noted trends in commercial litigation and employment law, with survey respondents indicating that they engaged mostly white males for mediation and arbitration matters.
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January 28, 2022
Alberta hits brakes on traffic court changes
Alberta has paused its plans to shake up traffic court, proposals which have led to an outcry by lawyers in the province that the changes would ignore due process and create barriers for people who may want to challenge the tickets they have received.
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December 14, 2021
Ottawa’s ‘update’ reveals new spending, tax supports, funding for 40,000 Afghan refugees and families
The federal government has announced some new refundable tax credits for pandemic-hit businesses and individuals, as well as financial aid to businesses for greening the economy and support to speed up immigration processing and to help resettle Afghan refugees in Canada.
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September 13, 2021
Ex-top judge Beverley McLachlin calls writing legal page-turners a challenging ‘voyage of discovery’
Beverley McLachlin spent 28 years at the Supreme Court of Canada grappling with the country’s most difficult legal problems, but she tells The Lawyer’s Daily writing legal thrillers presents its own unique challenges. The author of an award-winning autobiography, Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law, and the #1 best-selling courtroom suspense novel Full Disclosure, releases her second legal page-turner this week, featuring tough-minded criminal lawyer Jilly Truitt.
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July 07, 2021
Independent Safe Sport Mechanism will investigate incidents, hold hearings, feds say
On July 6, Canada announced that the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) had been “selected to establish and deliver a new Independent Safe Sport Mechanism.” According to the announcement, the “main objective of this new mechanism will be to oversee the implementation of the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS) for federally funded sport organizations.”
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April 30, 2021
Arbitration Place adds 12 ‘NextGen’ arbitrators
Arbitration Place announced that it has launched a new 12-member “NextGen Roster” of arbitrators to build on its existing roster by including younger arbitrators for a wider range of disputes.
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April 29, 2021
Divorce mediation firm opens three new locations
Fairway Divorce Solutions announced three new locations in Oakville, Ont., Calgary and Edmonton.
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April 23, 2021
LSO approves technological legal services pilot; Alberta law society adopts new hearing guideline
With the rise of apps and online services upending the legal profession, benchers of the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) have given the nod to launching a pilot project aimed at more closely regulating innovative technological legal services (ITLS) in the province.
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March 02, 2021
Dentons appoints national lead, deputy lead of litigation, ADR group in Canada
Dentons announced that it has appointed Toronto partner Mark Evans as national lead of its litigation and dispute resolution group in Canada, and Calgary partner Rachel Howie as deputy lead.