October 01, 2026
Petra Stojnic has joined Lenczner Slaght in Toronto as a 2026-27 Fox Scholar.
October 01, 2026
Hafeez A. Khan has been appointed a judge of the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba, Family Division, in Winnipeg.
October 01, 2026
Simon Kennedy has joined Bennett Jones as a senior adviser in its public policy group in Toronto.
October 01, 2026
Mental health, job stress and keeping up with AI remain “front of mind” for the new president of Manitoba’s law society.
October 01, 2026
The Federal Court has allowed a judicial review in a case where a chief electoral officer in a First Nation community cancelled an election the day before it was supposed to be held due to concerns of unfairness in the process.
October 01, 2026
Every fall, I hear some version of the same call. Two parents who spent the summer managing around each other, sometimes well, sometimes barely, suddenly find themselves in open conflict over a decision that has to be made right now: which school a child is registered at, which parent signs the form, whether an extracurricular activity happens on a day that falls outside the regular schedule. On the surface, it looks like a dispute about a single decision. It rarely is.
October 01, 2026
Fatality claims are unlike any other claims in personal injury law. From a litigation perspective, they may be the simplest cases we have. However, from a client management perspective, they are no doubt the most difficult.
October 01, 2026
Many people may be surprised and pleased to learn that there is a new path to becoming a Canadian citizen. The Government of Canada passed Bill C-3, An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act (2025), on Dec. 15, 2025. Before this legislation came into effect, Canadian citizenship by descent was limited to the first generation born outside Canada. For example, Emily was born or naturalized in Canada, and she could pass her citizenship to her child, Duncan, born outside of Canada.
October 01, 2026
A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision warns about the risks of delivering a bare criminal verdict and leaving the reasons for judgment for many months. In R. v. Qita, 2026 ONCA 554, the court ordered a new trial after concluding that the extraordinary delay between the announcement of guilty verdicts and the delivery of written reasons rebutted the presumption that the reasons accurately reflected the trial judge’s actual reasoning.
October 01, 2026
Appeal by appellant from his convictions for first-degree murder of his mother and stepfather (collectively, victims). The victims were asleep when fuel poured near their bed was ignited.