The Complete Brief
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October 24, 2025
Lavery expands with 7 new lawyers across Quebec offices
Lavery has added seven new lawyers to its Montreal, Quebec City and Trois-Rivières offices: Stephanie Cech, Laurence Isabelle, Philippe Juhos, Myriam Lachance, Arianne Leduc, Jessy Menard and Arielle Supino.
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October 24, 2025
Rachel Schechter joins Roper Greyell’s privacy practice
Roper Greyell has added Rachel Schechter as an associate in its privacy practice.
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October 24, 2025
Federal Court upholds dog import ban from certain countries, rejects procedural challenge
The Federal Court has upheld federal orders banning the import of commercial dogs from high-risk countries over rabies concerns, finding the government acted reasonably and owed no procedural fairness to animal rescue organizations opposing the ban.
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October 24, 2025
Court upholds class action over CBSA’s placement of immigration detainees in prisons
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a class action certification of a case alleging that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) unlawfully placed thousands of immigration detainees in provincial prisons instead of immigration holding centres (IHCs), despite them not being tried for any criminal offence.
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October 24, 2025
Snacks tax: A Revenue Canada reverie
A sudden impulse struck me recently at my nearby Sobeys supermarket, causing me to buy a package of onion bagel chips.
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October 24, 2025
The ‘bundle of sticks’: Legal vs. beneficial ownership in estate planning
As every estate lawyer worth their salt knows, the amount of careful analysis and due diligence that good, individualized estate planning requires cannot be overstated. Importantly, this process involves determining all the assets a testator has an interest in, how such interest is held, and finally how they would like to dispose of or pass on such interest(s) in their estate planning documents.
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October 24, 2025
B.C. law society seeking input on discrimination, harassment concerns in legal profession
The Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) is conducting an anonymous survey on discrimination and harassment in the legal profession. The survey has been set up to inform the law society’s bullying, discrimination and harassment task force’s work in developing evidence-based measures to address these behaviours, which are contrary to the LSBC’s code of professional conduct.
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October 24, 2025
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSSUES - Protection against arbitrary detention or imprisonment - Protection against unreasonable search and seizure
Appeal by Crown from a judgment of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal which reversed Wilson’s convictions and entered acquittals. Wilson was with Delorme, and two other individuals, when Delorme began to overdose after using fentanyl. A member of the group called 9-1-1.
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October 24, 2025
AI: Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer
Martin is a lawyer who has closed many residential real estate transactions. Back when he was starting out, Martin read the relevant statutes and regulations and prepared all the documents himself. For each transaction, Martin drafted a Statement of Adjustments, adding numbers in his head. Eventually he used a calculator, and then a software program. Then, he hired a law clerk and taught her how to do it.
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October 24, 2025
11th annual Wrongful Conviction Day event
On the evening of Oct. 14, the International Wrongful Conviction Day Committee and Innocence Canada hosted the 11th annual commemoration event to recognize the unfortunate phenomenon of wrongful convictions in our country.