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Justice Nicholas McHaffie has been appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal from the Federal Court.
After first summering and then articling with Roper Greyell, Larissa DeWolff has recently been called to the B.C. bar and welcomed to the firm as an associate, where she will be practising in all areas of workplace law.
Thomson Rogers LLP has welcomed Adriana Isshak as an associate in its personal injury group in Toronto.
A behind-the-scenes bid by federal chief justices to make future recommendations from the federal independent judicial pay commission process binding on Ottawa is on hold as representatives of Canada’s 1,200 federal judges and Federal Court associate judges sue the Carney government for allegedly not giving “meaningful effect” to the work and non-binding advice of the latest quadrennial Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission (Giardini Commission.)
Keira Ostrosser has joined Mathews Dinsdale as an associate in its Calgary office.
Rebecca Wakeam has returned to Thomson Rogers LLP as a partner in its family law group in Toronto.
Eryn Stewart has joined McDougall Gauley LLP as an associate in its Regina office.
The Sept. 1 amendment to Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure is narrow in wording but broad in effect. Ontario Regulation 275/26 now requires the person signing the statement in a factum to certify not only that every cited authority is authentic, but also that every quotation accurately reproduces its source text. It also adds a quotation-accuracy statement to expert reports under Rule 53.03.
In Avalin Group FZE c. Lauzon -- Planchers de bois exclusifs inc., 2026 QCCA 651, the Quebec Court of Appeal overturned the decision of the Quebec Superior Court, which considered that the wording of the arbitration prevented any referral of the case at hand to arbitration.
Pay transparency is changing more than the information available to job candidates. It is also making compensation more visible to the lawyers who are already inside an organization.
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