Pulse
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November 27, 2025
Law360 Canada Pulse survey 2025: AI sparks debate on legal industry's future
Canadian lawyers are somewhat split on the impact artificial intelligence will have on their industry, a new Law360 Canada survey shows. According to the 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey — which marks Law360 Canada’s third deep dive into the feelings and thoughts that legal professionals have about their jobs — nearly half of respondents agreed that both the pros and cons of AI are sizable.
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November 27, 2025
Judge deplores ‘abusive & vexatious’ litigation, squandering of court resources: ‘Enough is enough’
In a judgment which stands as a warning against wasting finite court resources, a Federal Court judge has terminated a self-represented plaintiff's third repetitive motion for reconsideration, stating “enough is enough — this type of recurring behaviour must be stopped for good, and with this order and reasons the bell tolls” for the plaintiff's failed efforts to challenge the validity of court orders featuring electronic typed judicial signatures, rather than the judge’s own handwritten signatures.
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November 27, 2025
The open and shut case
Lawyers who think they have a slam-dunk case usually come to grief. With their clients, with the courts, with their peers, and ultimately with themselves. And those lawyers who know better themselves but let their clients think they have a cakewalk are no wiser.
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November 27, 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE - Class or representative actions - Certification - Members of class or sub-class - Representative plaintiff
Appeal by appellants from decision of the Federal Court dismissing their certification motion. The appellants sought certification of a class proceeding, as representative plaintiffs, on behalf of a class of current and former regular members of the RCMP with an operational stress injury. The appellants claimed that the RCMP was systemically negligent and discriminate in delivering Mental Health Services to members of the proposed Class.
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November 26, 2025
Mathews Dinsdale announces the addition of Megan Jenkinson
Megan Jenkinson is now an associate in the Toronto office of boutique labour and employment law firm of Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP, the firm has announced. She both summered and articled with Mathews Dinsdale.
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November 26, 2025
Loopstra Nixon welcomes Yasmin Thompson as an associate
Loopstra Nixon LLP has announced that Yasmin Thompson is an associate, establishing a broad practice in banking and financial services the firm said in a release.
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November 26, 2025
Law360 Canada Pulse survey 2025: what lawyers really think about their profession
Find out what lawyers really think about their profession in Law360 Canada Pulse’s Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.
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November 26, 2025
Police behaviour sparks ‘excited delirium’ debate
“It’s letting the cops get away with murder!” That’s the reaction of one cynic upon hearing the Nov. 21, 2025, CTV News report on the Ontario Provincial Police probe that looked into the propriety of the Vancouver Police officers involved in the 2007 taser death of Robert Dziekański at Vancouver International Airport.
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November 26, 2025
My best lesson in law school
I had many wonderful profs in law school and had the honour of several of them becoming clients after I was called to the bar. I think they took pity on my struggling practice. But the most important lesson was not from a prof, but from a fellow student who wasn’t even there. Here’s how it goes.
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November 26, 2025
RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES - Residential tenancy boards - Orders
Appeal by Heitner from decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court (Supreme Court) judge regarding judicial review applications. This appeal involved a dispute between a tenant and purchaser.