Personal Injury
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January 06, 2025
Manitoba moving to heighten teacher accountability, strengthen student safety
Manitoba is making moves to increase teacher accountability and transparency by having an online registry for the public and an independent commissioner to investigate complaints.
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January 06, 2025
Government bills die on order paper as Parliament prorogues, Justin Trudeau announces departure as PM
After more than nine years as Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau announced that Parliament is prorogued until March 24, 2025, and that he will step down as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada once his successor has been chosen “through a robust nationwide competitive process.”
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January 06, 2025
Domestic violence in Ontario: A beginning to an end? | Michael Cochrane
In three previous columns I examined the incredible cost to taxpayers of the consequences of domestic violence (billion$), the ill-considered judicial invention of a special tort of family violence (an invitation to a return to trench warfare over unhappy relationships) and the questionable value of trying to criminalize coercive behaviour in relationships (as if corrosive behaviour — as defined in the bill — could be deterred when it is so embedded in some cultures). All three of those issues deal with the aftermath of the violence, not the origins of the violence or the prevention of the violence, so let’s turn to that now.
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January 03, 2025
Dozens of Indigenous governments working to run their own child and family services
In the five years since enabling federal legislation came into force, 85 Indigenous governments, representing more than 110 communities across Canada, have given notice to exercise their jurisdiction over child and family services or have made requests to enter into discussions about entering coordination agreements with the federal government, according to Indigenous Services Canada (ISC).
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January 03, 2025
'Precedential' Ontario Court of Appeal decision clarifies steps required to advance a class action
In what one lawyer describes as a "precedential" decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a class action for delay, finding that the plaintiffs failed to establish a timetable for completing the necessary steps to advance the proceeding within one year, as required under section 29.1 of the Class Proceedings Act (CPA).
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January 02, 2025
Federal Court approves $150M class action settlement over alleged racism in the Canadian Armed Forces
The Federal Court has certified a class action and approved a $150 million settlement agreement pertaining to alleged racial harassment and discrimination against some members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
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January 02, 2025
Ontario Court okays $14.75M class action settlement over side-effects of antipsychotic drug
The Ontario Superior Court has approved a $14.75 million class-action settlement over claims that manufacturers and marketers of certain antipsychotic drugs failed to adequately warn users that their use could increase the risk of compulsive behaviors, including compulsive gambling and hypersexuality.
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January 02, 2025
Novel family violence tort, solicitor-client privilege & insurance are on the SCC’s winter menu
What does Canadian securities law mean by making timely disclosure of “material” changes? Should the judiciary create a new tort of “family violence”? Were a lawyer’s Charter rights breached as a result of police wiretapping her phone call to a client?
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December 24, 2024
Ontario government files leave to appeal application with SCC in climate change Charter rights case
The Government of Ontario has filed a leave to appeal application to the Supreme Court of Canada in a case challenging its passing of the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, which lowered targets for greenhouse gas emissions.
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December 24, 2024
N.B. Court of Appeal certifies class action related to Oxytocin use by Moncton birthing room nurse
The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal and certified a class action relating to a nurse’s use of Oxytocin on patients while they were in labour, allegedly causing harm to several mothers.