September 24, 2026
Meili Toner and Antonia Chircop have joined Pink Larkin as associates in its Halifax office.
September 24, 2026
Toronto-based lawyer Matt McLeod has joined Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP as a partner in the firm’s defence group.
September 24, 2026
As estate planning lawyers, we constantly orbit the estate litigation galaxy, navigating to keep our clients’ estates from being pulled into the black hole of court. This article is a guide for both estate planning lawyers and their clients to stay in “safe orbit” and navigate smartly around some of the most common estate litigation in the galaxy, with a nod to the late 1970s comedy science-fiction series A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
September 24, 2026
Appeal by appellant from a damages award following a motor vehicle accident. The respondent admitted liability for a rear-end motor vehicle accident.
September 23, 2026
Chief Justice of Canada Richard Wagner says Canada’s independent justice system and perspective on confronting global threats to the rule of law has attracted interest abroad. Speaking Sept. 22 at a Newfoundland and Labrador law society event in St. John’s, Chief Justice Wagner told local lawyers and those online that he was the only non-European court leader invited to attend the meeting in Cyprus last June of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the 27-member European Union (EU).
September 23, 2026
This is part one of a two-part series examining Siam v. Canada, 2026 FCA 91, in which the Federal Court of Appeal addressed a recurring evidentiary problem in tax reassessment litigation: what a taxpayer must actually prove when arguing that the Canada Revenue Agency never sent an original Notice of Assessment.
September 23, 2026
Quebec’s new judicial guidelines offer an occasion to examine how AI assistance enters a litigation file, without confusing judicial guidance with lawyers’ duties.
September 23, 2026
Ontario’s Arbitration Act represents one of many efforts by the state to delegate the adjudicative function to non-judicial decision-makers.
September 23, 2026
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has created an opt-in process for legal claims for people who suffered hazing or abuse while playing Major Junior Hockey in the Ontario Hockey League and/or the Western Hockey League of the Canadian Hockey League.
September 23, 2026
A Canadian court will once again be at the centre of a lawsuit challenging alleged governmental inaction on climate change, with a judge turning back attempts by Ottawa to quash a lawsuit challenging its record on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).