The Complete Brief
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October 16, 2025
Swapna Prakash new associate at Gilbert’s LLP
Swapna Prakash is a new associate at Gilbert’s LLP, where she will support the litigation team.
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October 16, 2025
Ontario introducing legislation to expand ‘as of right’ provisions for health care workers
In a push to attract more healthcare professionals to the province, Ontario will introduce legislation next week to “support greater worker mobility across Canada.”
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October 15, 2025
Biometric data and workplace surveillance
The most common use of biometric data by Canadian employers is to monitor employees in the workplace. The legitimate extent of such monitoring is one of the fundamental legal questions of the 21st century – while biometric surveillance can make workplaces more efficient, it also implicates the most basic rights of employees. Canadian legislators have created a complex legal regime to address the task of balancing the right to privacy of employees with the right of employers to efficiently manage their workforce and run their business.
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October 16, 2025
Why do so many lawyers have ADHD ‘all of a sudden’?
You may have recently found yourself thinking that there suddenly seem to be a lot of lawyers with ADHD. As a former lawyer with ADHD, I wanted to explain why this is, and why it’s not a bad thing.
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October 16, 2025
INTERESTS IN LAND - Easements - Dominant and servient tenement - Disturbance of an easement
Appeal by appellants from orders arising from easement petition and judicial review petition; application by appellants to adduce additional evidence on appeal. These appeals arose out of a dispute about stairs built on an easement that facilitated access to the Saanich Inlet waterfront.
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October 15, 2025
Export firm fined $125K for ignoring environmental protection compliance order
A Quebec court has imposed a $125,000 fine on an export company after it failed to comply with an environmental protection compliance order, according to a release.
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October 15, 2025
Court finds RCMP conduct adjudicator lacked jurisdiction to hear case
The Federal Court has allowed a judicial review of a decision where a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) argued that an adjudicator did not have jurisdiction on an appeal relating to conduct.
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October 15, 2025
Federal Court overturns TMOB ruling for narrowing confusion test to past use
The Federal Court has set aside the Trademarks Opposition Board’s (TMOB) dismissal of a trademark opposition, ruling that the board erred by limiting its confusion analysis to the opponent’s actual use of its mark rather than the full scope of its registration.
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October 15, 2025
Debi Sutin joins Sotos as partner in commercial and corporate group
Debi Sutin has joined Sotos as a partner and brings to the role decades of extensive experience advising Canadian and international clients on franchising, licensing, and distribution matters, corporate and commercial law, and mergers &acquisitions. According to a statement from the firm, Sutin has served as co-chair of the Ontario Bar Association Annual Franchise Law Conference, actively contributes to the Canadian Franchise Association, the International Franchise Association, and the American Bar Association Forum on Franchising.
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October 15, 2025
Canadian victims of $15M U.S.-based fraud encouraged to seek compensation
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) is encouraging B.C. victims of a U.S.-based $15 million pyramid and Ponzi scheme to file their claims with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).