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July 23, 2024
Canadian securities regulators stepped up enforcement in 2023-24, driven in part by crypto schemes
Canadian securities regulators commenced 83 enforcement proceedings between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, with 27 cases of selling securities illegally making it the most common offence, according to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) annual year-in-review report.
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July 18, 2024
Court finds doctor cannot amend libel claim against lawyer who represented car accident victim
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s Divisional Court has dismissed an appeal of a decision that denied a doctor’s request to amend his statement of claim in a libel case against a lawyer who was involved in a car accident insurance claim case.
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June 25, 2024
Alberta Court of Appeal again rejects injunction on $117M letter of credit in pipeline contract
The Alberta Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal concerning a dispute over a $117 million irrevocable letter of credit connected to a pipeline contract, finding that it could not stay its own previous decision allowing the letter to be called.
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June 17, 2024
Court rejects legal clinic’s intervention motion in NAFTA motorcycle trade dispute
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal clinic's request for intervener status in an international trade dispute between Mexico and a U.S.-based company in which arbitral procedural fairness was in dispute.
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June 11, 2024
Ex-Chief Justice of Canada says judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal remain independent
In the wake of Beijing’s escalating crackdown on independent voices and institutions in Hong Kong since China enacted and expanded a sweeping “national security law,” Hong Kong’s top court is still independent, retired Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said as she announced her planned departure next month from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
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June 11, 2024
Appeal Court restores $1M award for fire-damaged property in 'important' insurance decision
The Ontario Court of Appeal has reinstated an umpire’s determination that the actual cash value (ACV) of a commercial premises partially destroyed in a fire was $1,084,000, finding that the award was not arbitrary even though it far exceeded the market value of the premises.
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June 11, 2024
Alberta law society amends code of conduct rules on single-party communications
Benchers of the Law Society of Alberta (LSA) have adopted an amendment to its code of conduct on single-party communications. he amendment was made at the law society’s June 7 board meeting. In October 2023, the law society adopted several rules, commentary and amendments to the code, proposed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC) through its model code.
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June 07, 2024
SCC rules on interplay of informer privilege & open courts in so-called secret trial case
The Supreme Court of Canada says no “secret” trial occurred during the in-camera prosecution of a confidential police informer in Quebec, but it has ordered 9-0 that a redacted trial judgment should be made public, which contains no information that might identify the police informer in breach of what the top court has previously described as the “extremely broad and powerful” informer privilege.
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May 31, 2024
Border unions to enter mediated talks with federal government as possible strike looms
Federal government representatives and union leaders representing about 9,500 workers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) will begin mediated negotiations on June 3 in a bid to avert a summer strike, with wage increases and early retirement among the sticking points.
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May 27, 2024
Appellate court upholds decision finding that TTC legislation breached Charter
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal, upholding that labour legislation for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) was in breach of the Charter, despite finding that the application judge erred in some parts of the analysis. One appellate court judge dissented and would allow the appeal.