May 04, 2026
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has rejected a leave to appeal application for non-party subpoenas in a class action relating to prepaid purchase cards.
May 04, 2026
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has started the ball rolling on a process that would see the size of convocation reduced by 16 and would also create three new appointed bencher positions.
May 01, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has quashed an appeal in an alleged medical malpractice case, ruling that an order allowing two doctors to be added as defendants did not finally determine their limitations defence and could only be appealed to the Divisional Court with leave.
May 01, 2026
Heralding a significant shift in the Canadian legal landscape, the British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected the legal profession’s constitutional challenge to the B.C. Legal Professions Act — legislation that would end more than 150 years of lawyer self-governance and self-regulation by benchers elected from the provincial bar.
April 30, 2026
B.C. has announced that new regulations under the Wildlife Act are now in effect, restricting the use of foot-encapsulating traps, commonly known as egg traps, to licensed trappers to prevent pain and injury to raccoons.
April 28, 2026
B.C. has made regulatory changes to how domestic sheep are classified under the Wildlife Act to better protect wild sheep populations from diseases.
April 28, 2026
In a property ownership case, the Ontario Court of Appeal has held that an appeal from a vesting order was moot once the order was registered on title, despite the appellant pursuing a stay motion pending appeal.
April 27, 2026
MLT Aikins has added Jordan Parmar as an associate in its Vancouver office.
April 27, 2026
The federal government has announced more than $8.6 million in funding over two years for 24 projects to develop services for Black youth, victims and survivors of crime, and individuals navigating the criminal justice system.
April 24, 2026
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has certified a national class action alleging that the corporate defendants’ medical devices — cochlear implants surgically implanted for hearing impaired patients — were “risky, defective, and require users to undergo invasive revision surgery to have the device removed and replaced.”