Civil Litigation
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July 14, 2025
Federal Court judge strikes SRL’s submission in employment dispute over AI hallucination citation
In another sign of AI’s growing impact on the law, the Federal Court has ordered that a self-represented respondent’s motion record be removed from a court file because it relied in part on a non-existent court decision hallucinated by an artificial intelligence (AI) research tool.
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July 14, 2025
FINTRAC publishes updates to its guidance on ministerial directive on Iran
Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog has updated its existing guidance related to the federal government’s ministerial directive on financial transactions associated with Iran.
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July 14, 2025
Federal Court quashed ISC denial of $200,000 Jordan’s Principle mould remediation funding request
The Federal Court set aside an Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) decision denying a $200,000 Jordan’s Principle funding request for mould remediation, ruling that ISC wrongly rejected the request due to lack of comparable public services without assessing the concerned children’s health needs.
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July 14, 2025
Alberta giving $1.25 million to groups in bid to end gender-based violence
Alberta is launching a new grant program through which more than $1 million will be available to community organizations as part of the province’s ongoing bid to tackle gender-based violence.
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July 14, 2025
Court approves $1.75M class action settlement in balcony malfunction case
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved a $1.75-million class action settlement in a case where balconies became inaccessible to condo residents due to alleged design issues.
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July 14, 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE - Pleadings - Significant irregularity causing prejudice
Appeal by appellant against a court order dismissing its application to strike certain portions of respondent’s response to civil claim. The appellant was a Chinese company in the business of commercial lending.
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July 14, 2025
Delay costs father on urgent motion over mother’s no-notice relocation
A recent Divisional Court decision suggests that parents left behind after an unauthorized relocation must act quickly to object — and stay actively involved in the child’s life — if they hope to prevent the new living arrangements from solidifying before trial.
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July 14, 2025
The disadvantages of common law precedent
The Canadian common law system has its pros and cons. On the one hand, it provides for a certain level of consistency and predictability within an area of law by having judges rely on past precedent rulings to guide future awards. On the other hand, this consistency promotes a certain bias that takes a long time to review and change, which ironically creates inconsistencies across other legal frameworks.
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July 11, 2025
FINTRAC flags rising use of dual-use goods, cryptocurrencies in weapons proliferation
Canada’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC, is warning that foreign actors are increasingly targeting Canadian dual-use goods and turning to cryptocurrencies in efforts to acquire resources and information to build weapons of mass destruction and evade counter-proliferation controls.
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July 11, 2025
Trade tribunal, CBSA announce developments in steel product dumping investigations
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has determined that the dumping of steel strapping from China, South Korea, Türkiye and Vietnam, and the subsidizing of steel strapping from China, are threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry.