Personal Injury
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January 10, 2025
Federal Court grants review of Jordan’s Principle decision involving Indigenous dad and his children
Indigenous Services Canada must notify applicants making requests under Jordan’s Principle of any essential documents they must provide before it makes a decision, the Federal Court of Appeal has held, calling out ISC’s “passive approach” to procedural fairness.
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January 10, 2025
Six added to partnership at Lerners
Lerners LLP recently welcomed six lawyers to partnership at the Ontario firm. In an announcement, Lerners congratulated new partners Clark Armstrong, David Isaac, Andrew Johnson, Spencer Jones, Mark McAuley and Erika Tower.
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January 07, 2025
Yukon wanting feedback on changes to health profession laws
Yukon’s government is looking for feedback on updating legislation governing the territory’s health-care professionals.
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January 07, 2025
Impact of delay on disciplinary sanctions
There is general agreement that, even where delay in investigating and prosecuting misconduct allegations does not amount to an abuse of process, delay during the proceeding can have an impact on the appropriate disciplinary sanctions that should be imposed. However, there is less agreement on how that impact should be assessed.
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January 07, 2025
The new year means new partners at Miller Thomson
Miller Thomson LLP has announced that, as of Jan. 1, it has added 14 lawyers to its partnership.
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January 07, 2025
Federal Court decreases class counsel fees in $1.9B Indigenous boarding home class action settlement
The Federal Court has decreased requested class counsel fees of $50 million to $32.5 million in relation to the $1.9 billion settlement regarding the class action for Indigenous boarding home survivors, citing significantly less risk as compared to previous settlements.
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January 06, 2025
WestJet ordered to disclose harassment complaint files in harassment class action
WestJet Airlines has been ordered to produce all documents related to harassment of flight attendants in a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company overlooked and tolerated harassment, particularly by pilots, in breach of its obligations to the airline’s flight attendants.
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January 06, 2025
Manitoba moving to heighten teacher accountability, strengthen student safety
Manitoba is making moves to increase teacher accountability and transparency by having an online registry for the public and an independent commissioner to investigate complaints.
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January 06, 2025
Government bills die on order paper as Parliament prorogues, Justin Trudeau announces departure as PM
After more than nine years as Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau announced that Parliament is prorogued until March 24, 2025, and that he will step down as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada once his successor has been chosen “through a robust nationwide competitive process.”
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January 06, 2025
Domestic violence in Ontario: A beginning to an end? | Michael Cochrane
In three previous columns I examined the incredible cost to taxpayers of the consequences of domestic violence (billion$), the ill-considered judicial invention of a special tort of family violence (an invitation to a return to trench warfare over unhappy relationships) and the questionable value of trying to criminalize coercive behaviour in relationships (as if corrosive behaviour — as defined in the bill — could be deterred when it is so embedded in some cultures). All three of those issues deal with the aftermath of the violence, not the origins of the violence or the prevention of the violence, so let’s turn to that now.