In-House Counsel
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July 24, 2024
Duty of tech competence, AI adoption by lawyers | Connie L. Braun and Juliana Saxberg
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dominated legal tech conversations for several years, and for good reason. Widespread consumer adoption of ChatGPT and other generative AI products has delivered a host of unprecedented legal and tech risks to Canadian entities. Governments and regulators in Canada and abroad continue to scramble to regulate the responsible use of AI tools, even though their use is already thoroughly embedded in Canadian and global business, government and legal system operations. As a result, the typical Canadian entity’s AI compliance dossier is an unfinished patchwork of aspirational codes and aging regulatory instruments that were designed when Y2K was considered a big enterprise tech risk.
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July 24, 2024
New managing partner for Aird & Berlis
Jill P. Fraser, a senior partner in Aird & Berlis’s financial services group and a long-standing member of the executive committee, the firm’s new managing partner.
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July 23, 2024
Federal Court orders broadcaster to pay $27.3M for copyright infringement of Turkish programs
The Federal Court has ordered a broadcaster to pay $27.3 million for infringing the copyrights of Turkish broadcaster Kanal D on 2,729 episodes of 22 television programs.
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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 23, 2024
Appeal court finds insured not covered for failing to notify insurer of securities fraud probe
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal in which the insured was not able to receive coverage or relief from forfeiture due to his delay in notifying the insurer about circumstances that would reasonably lead to a claim.
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July 23, 2024
Remote scenarios: Ontario court clarifies evidentiary requirements for manufacturing defect claim
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently dismissed a plaintiff’s product liability claim based on negligent manufacture and the duty to warn, for damages totalling $250,000. The decision of Pelton v. Maytag Ltd., 2024 ONSC 3016, clarifies evidentiary requirements necessary to establish a manufacturing defect claim as well as the scope of a manufacturer’s duty to warn of foreseeable risks.
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July 22, 2024
Montreal law firm launches proposed class action over plant milk listeriosis outbreak
A Montreal law firm is the first in Canada to seek compensation for consumers affected by a recent listeriosis outbreak linked to some plant milk products.
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July 22, 2024
B.C. Court of Appeal upholds securities regulator's power to compel witnesses to provide evidence
The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld the constitutional validity of B.C. Securities Act provisions that allow the B.C. Securities Commission to compel witnesses to provide evidence and to seek court orders to ensure compliance with summonses under threat of contempt.
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July 22, 2024
Competition watchdog gives guidance, seeks input on policing deceptive ‘greenwashing’ by business
The federal Competition Bureau is asking for input from lawyers, their clients and the public to inform the bureau's “future enforcement guidance” regarding misleading and unsubstantiated environmental claims by businesses about products or activities, including future enforcement guidance with respect to last month’s amendments to the Competition Act that explicitly address “greenwashing.”
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July 22, 2024
Class action seeking $10M launched against Calgary for ruptured water main
A proposed class action has been launched against the City of Calgary and Calgary-based utility Enmax Corp. over flooding that resulted from the major water main rupture that occurred in the city in June, which the lawsuit alleges was caused by known defects in the main since its installation in the 1970s. The claim seeks $10 million in general damages.