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Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench has made some tweaks to its rules on digital orders while offering a new guide for litigants in family law cases.
The inability to afford a lawyer remains the biggest barrier to legal services in Manitoba, but obstacles also arise when various bodies operate in silos rather than coming together to serve the “whole person,” an official says following the release of a survey on access to justice in the province. Earlier this month, the Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) released its “What We Heard from Community Report” as part of its ongoing Access to Justice (A2J) Initiative.
As AI-generated court filings by self-represented litigants proliferate, appellate counsel should read trial transcripts that are ostensibly “certified” more closely than ever and do so earlier in the appeal process as they might be AI-created fakes, advises a senior family law practitioner.
The guilty plea entered Aug. 25 by a Toronto jail inmate who viciously attacked his elderly cellmate should prompt more than horror at the brutality of the assault. It should also prompt a difficult legal question: what, if anything, can an extraordinary act of violence reveal about the offender’s mental state?
Canada should establish a transparent, evidence-based framework under which immigration applications connected to jurisdictions presenting demonstrable verification, fraud or security challenges receive enhanced scrutiny and, subject to narrow exceptions, a mandatory in-person visa interview.
Appeal by Crown from acquittals of the Respondents on charges of trafficking in cocaine.
A sentencing judge has delivered another sharp reminder that a court’s punishment cannot be considered in isolation from the conditions under which an accused has already been held. Justice Esther Rosenberg’s decision, released on Aug. 19 (R. v. Daniel), is significant not because the offences were minor. They were anything but.
The Canadian Finance and Leasing Association (CFLA) has released its new report titled “Fraudulent Financing and Illegal Vehicle Exports,” which notes that while traditional auto thefts have decreased, organized crime has adapted by significantly increasing fraudulent financing and rapidly exporting vehicles.
Justice Frans Slatter has retired from the Alberta Court of Appeal after 25 years on the bench.
Appeal by appellant from convictions for theft over $5,000. The charge arose from allegations that, while employed as general manager of Fancy Windows Manufacturing Limited, the appellant retained cash payments made by customers for window orders instead of remitting them to the company.
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