The Complete Brief
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April 28, 2025
The different effect of divorce on men and women
In divorce, gender-sensitive legal services are essential to ensuring that the emotional and psychological repercussions of marital breakdown are appropriately understood and addressed. Divorce professionals such as judges, lawyers and mediators alike must recognize that the mental health impact of separation is not experienced uniformly across genders.
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April 28, 2025
Unexpected things you can do in the U.S. as a B-1 business visitor
The B-1 Temporary Business Visitor classification is used by many people entering the United States. Many of these visitors come to attend meetings, which is often an appropriate business visitor activity. However, there are many more things that business visitors can do.
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April 28, 2025
Colour of right, principal and secondary parties under discussion in N.B. appeal
A couple, Kevin Melanson, 48, and Christina Melanson, 40, of Sackville, N.B., were sentenced to three years in prison for a violent robbery at the now-defunct Fredericton business Buddy’s Cannabis Clinic, in June 2018. Kevin had invested $25,000 in Buddy’s, and he understood he had lost his investment.
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April 28, 2025
Ontario family ruling ‘extremely important’ with ‘far-ranging’ implications, lawyer says
In a ruling being described as important and having significant implications, Ontario’s top court has given clarification on the interplay between provincial family law and federal refugee law in cases involving allegations of a child’s wrongful detention in Canada.
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April 28, 2025
Quebec appeal court confirms ruling finding provisions abolishing school boards unconstitutional
The Quebec Court of Appeal confirmed that certain provisions of a provincial law that abolished school boards unjustifiably infringe the rights guaranteed to Quebec’s minority language groups by the Canadian Charter, a ruling deemed by the English community as a sweeping win.
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April 28, 2025
U of T law professor John Borrows awarded Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing
The Ontario government has announced that the 2024 David Walter Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing has been awarded to professor John Borrows.
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April 28, 2025
TRUSTS - Creation - Presumed resulting trusts
Appeal by appellant Diane Wilkinson from chambers judge’s order dismissing her trust claims as statute barred under Limitation Act.
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April 28, 2025
FOR TORTS - Affecting the person - Defamation - Method of publication - Internet
Appeal by Neufeld from an order finding him liable in defamation to Bondar and awarding $45,000 in general and punitive damages on grounds that judge erred in concluding that impugned words were defamatory and erred in awarding more than nominal and punitive damages.
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April 28, 2025
When the system came for me, my co-counsel was AI
In July 2023, I was detained and charged by an officer of the Toronto Police Service during a low-speed parking manoeuvre in downtown Toronto. My dashcam footage contradicted the officer’s claims. Still, I was detained for nearly an hour, falsely accused of impaired driving and issued four additional traffic charges. What followed was a two-year ordeal filled with obstruction, delay and procedural abuse by the Toronto Police Service and the City of Toronto’s legal counsel.
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April 28, 2025
Law firms restricting social media posts: More sinister than just hatred
I recently wrote an article titled "Hate everything or risk the consequences" in which I lamented that law firms restrict the social medial activity of their lawyers. But then I spoke to writer Tony Albrecht, who knows a lot about this stuff, and I now realize I understated the problem.