The Complete Brief
-
April 25, 2025
Tim Pritchard joins Miller Thomson as partner
Miller Thomson has announced that Tim Pritchard has joined its Vancouver office as a partner in the commercial litigation group.
-
April 24, 2025
Drug conviction appeal results in modified sentence
A joint operation between the Ontario Provincial Police and the North Bay police resulted in multiple arrests and the seizure of drugs, cash, cars and electronics. When published reports of this takedown appeared in 2020, 30-year-old Justin Glynn was named as one of the people arrested.
-
April 25, 2025
Happiness may buy you money
For me, happiness is indeed a worthy goal. I think that many would agree — including lawyers, who are not in my experience the happiest folks around. So how do you get there? Is it by earning more money than the next guy?
-
April 24, 2025
N.B. advocate warning against millions in cuts to child services
New Brunswick’s advocate for children, youth and vulnerable adults is sounding the alarm over tens of millions in cuts to child welfare services — a move he is calling “the most significant single-year reduction to services for vulnerable children in recent memory.”
-
April 24, 2025
Quebec court approves Phoenix system class action settlement for non-union federal employees
The Quebec Superior Court has approved a settlement for a class action over compensation errors that non-unionized and casual federal public servants faced as a result of the Phoenix pay system, which was launched in 2016.
-
April 24, 2025
Federal Court approves class action settlements of over $2M in alleged molded door price-fixing case
The Federal Court has approved class action settlements of over $2 million related to alleged price-fixing of interior molded doors.
-
April 24, 2025
Alberta court rules UFCW Canada union not liable for allegedly toxic workplace at local affiliate
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has rejected a constructive dismissal claim against an international union, finding that it was not a supervisor of employees at an affiliated union local and could therefore not be held liable for allegedly failing to prevent a toxic work environment.
-
April 24, 2025
Langlois welcomes three lawyers to its labour and employment law team
Quebec-based firm Langlois has announced that three lawyers have joined its labour and employment law group: Julie-Ann Blain, Andréanne Brosseau and Marie-Claude Nantel-Huot.
-
April 24, 2025
Quebec appoints three new judges
The Court of Quebec and Minister of Justice Simon Jolin-Barrette have announced the appointment of three judges.
-
April 24, 2025
Benefits and claims - Qualification and entitlement - Misconduct - Appeals and judicial review - Employment Insurance Commission
Application by Zagol seeking judicial review of decision of Appeal Division (AD) of Social Security Tribunal(SST), which affirmed General Division's (GD) decision disqualifying him from receiving Employment Insurance (EI) benefits.