May 19, 2026
Criminal defence counsel frequently find redactions in disclosure material. Sometimes large passages are obscured or “highlighted in black,” as I used to say. In November 2025, the Federal Court gave us some insight as to why and when such deletions are appropriate. That decision was Canada (Attorney General) v. Majcher, 2025 FC 1777.
May 19, 2026
Ontario’s class actions continued to evolve in Q1 2026, with five key rulings addressing certification standards for causation, preferability between overlapping proceedings and the limits of cross-border evidence, among other topics.
May 19, 2026
Appeal by Pasquill and cross-appeal by British Columbia Securities Commission (Commission) from chambers judge’s forfeiture order. In 2014, Pasquill was found to have perpetrated one of the largest frauds on capital markets in British Columbia, in violation of the Securities Act. He was ordered to pay, jointly and severally with others, $36.7 million in monetary sanctions.
May 15, 2026
Environmental law groups are denouncing the new Canada-Alberta agreement on carbon pricing and an oil pipeline.
May 15, 2026
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal involving an individual who was subject to a cryptocurrency scam but ignored warnings from trading platforms when carrying out the transactions.
May 15, 2026
The Federal Court has struck an application brought by the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association seeking declaration for a right to counsel in immigration and refugee cases, allowing the motion by the responding ministers.
May 15, 2026
Most law firm owners didn’t start their careers thinking carefully about their life design. They started thinking about cases, clients, qualifications and building something credible in a demanding profession.
May 15, 2026
The Government of Ontario is introducing legislative changes to “strengthen protections for children in private and international adoptions by enhancing oversight of the adoption process, creating new compliance and enforcement tools and establishing better safeguards to prevent bad actors from entering the system.”
May 15, 2026
In an effort to “strengthen the bail system and keep dangerous offenders behind bars,” the Government of Ontario is increasing adult correctional capacity by adding “more than 2,500 permanent jail beds within the next decade.”
May 15, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada has created 6-3 a new common law tort of “intimate partner violence” (IPV), which may be claimed separately or within family law proceedings. The far-reaching five-judge majority judgment, written by Justice Nicholas Kasirer (along with a separate lone concurrence by Justice Andromache Karakatsanis), not only recognizes a new tort, it elaborates on when novel torts should be created and on the roles of courts and legislatures in developing the law: Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16.