October 14, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a bid to strike a proposed class action alleging that real estate rules requiring sellers to pay buyers’ brokerage commissions unlawfully control prices by shielding those commissions from competitive market forces.
October 14, 2026
Keeping up with the speed of money, working with limited resources and assisting judges with gaps in their technical knowledge were among the challenges under the spotlight at a recent legal conference about cybercrime and crypto fraud.
October 14, 2026
Applications by K’ómoks First Nation (KFN) for an extension of time and leave to appeal a British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission) order approving electricity purchase agreements (EPAs), as well as for a sealing order.
October 13, 2026
Only two women applied for the latest Supreme Court of Canada vacancy, filled by Manitoba’s Glenn Joyal, whose appointment last June restored a 5-4 male majority, ending the high court’s first female majority on the top bench.
October 13, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has revived a constitutional challenge to a Hamilton bylaw prohibiting tents and sleeping in public parks, finding that the application judge failed to apply the legal tests for the alleged Charter breaches.
October 13, 2026
The Federal Court has rejected a judicial review application after finding that an arbitrator’s admission of CN Rail’s graphs during closing submissions did not breach procedural fairness in a transportation rate dispute.
October 13, 2026
Last week, the federal government announced that it plans to introduce legislation to decriminalize advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID), leaving each province and territory to decide whether to permit them. Advance requests are intended to respect autonomy, but when undue influence, coercive control or other forms of abuse are discovered only after MAID has been provided, no remedy can restore the person’s life.
October 13, 2026
Appeal by Harjit from orders dismissing his civil claim and cancelling a certificate of pending litigation against his late father Swinder’s residential property.
October 09, 2026
Appeal by appellant from an order registering a New Jersey judgment in Saskatchewan under the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act.
October 08, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a lawyer’s limitation defence to a negligence claim over a failed property purchase, finding that the buyers’ knowledge that title had not transferred did not establish that they had discovered their claim.