Personal Injury
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October 16, 2025
Carney says Liberals’ impending crime bill will propose more bail reverse onuses & stiffer sentences
Next week Ottawa will propose Criminal Code reforms — including new reverse onuses for bail, a ban on conditional sentences for a number of sexual offences, and stiffer sentences for repeat convictions for auto-theft, organized crime and home invasion, says Prime Minister Mark Carney, who added that his government is also poised to unveil new border security measures on Oct. 17.
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October 15, 2025
A veteran correctional officer’s take on personal self defence: The Kurt Suss three-foot rule
21:45 hours. Recreation was announced closed at one of Canada’s largest high medium penitentiaries. “Return to your units,” echoed over the loudspeakers in the gym and the rec field.
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October 14, 2025
Four associates join Lerners London office
With offices in Toronto, London, Strathroy and Waterloo, Ont, region, Lerners has signed on four new associates, all of whom will be working in London
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October 10, 2025
SCC clarifies when Quebec 10-year ‘extinctive prescription’ period reboots for collecting on judgments
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 9-0 in a Quebec appeal that filing and serving a notice to seize property counts as a judicial application interrupting the 10-year deadline to collect payment on a judgment — thereby restarting for a further 10 years the “extinctive prescription” period (comparable to a limitation period in the common law provinces) that applies to rights resulting from most money judgments under art. 2924 of the Civil Code of Québec.
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October 09, 2025
New law to allow B.C. to go after vape makers for public health costs
The B.C. government has introduced new legislation which would allow the province to recover public health cost from vaping product manufacturers and wholesalers, according to a release issued on Oct. 8.
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October 09, 2025
The case for human-centred elder justice
On a good day, 83-year-old Beatrice can still make a cup of tea and find her way to the park. But when she tries to fill out a digital form, the steps feel endless and confusing. For many people with dementia, even small hurdles can make it hard to get the help they need.
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October 08, 2025
Fraser calls provinces’ demand to scrap Ottawa’s SCC arguments on notwithstanding clause ‘untenable’
Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has pushed back against the demands of five premiers that Ottawa should drop its novel arguments at the Supreme Court that there are substantive constraints on governments’ powers to invoke the Charter’s s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause — arguments that those five provinces contend “represent a complete disavowal of the constitutional bargain that brought the Charter into being” in 1982.
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October 08, 2025
Justice system doesn’t work if court orders become discretionary: lawyer
An Ontario court has given a warning that defendants should be wary of paying out settlement funds when facing a charging order. That was the finding by a three-judge divisional panel of the Ontario Superior Court in an action revolving around the enforcement of a charging order in a motor vehicle accident case.
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October 07, 2025
Attorney General Sean Fraser tells SCC the law needs to protect people with ‘no voice’
There was a celebratory mood at the opening ceremony for the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2025-26 court year, but Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser and other legal leaders delivered a sober message to the Ottawa courtroom packed with lawyers and judges.
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October 07, 2025
Small change, big impact: Ontario expands small claims jurisdiction to $50,000
As of Oct. 1, 2025, the monetary jurisdiction of Ontario’s small claims court has increased from $35,000 to $50,000 (exclusive of costs and interest). While it may appear a merely incremental change, the increase represents a significant procedural development in Ontario’s justice system, affecting not just new claims but potentially existing ones as well.