The Complete Brief
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July 11, 2024
Quebec court approves $1.8M settlement agreement in Nissan data breach class actions
The Superior Court of Quebec has approved a national class action settlement against Nissan Canada Inc. over a data breach in which customer data was allegedly stolen and put up for ransom.
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July 11, 2024
Unsolved murder: Perfect crime against perfect trustee
In the evening hours of April 1, 1991, on what otherwise may have been a relatively unassuming day in Düsseldorf, Germany, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder was murdered at his home in cold blood. The case remains unsolved and arguably ranks as Germany’s own version of the JFK assassination — a prominent member of the government establishment gone far too soon with seemingly no one to hold accountable.
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July 11, 2024
CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF LEGISLATION — Federal legislation — Imperial statutes — Determination of validity
Appeal by Attorney General of Canada (Canada) from declaration of application judge that s. 12 of The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act (Act) was ultra vires and invalid. This case involved a constitutional challenge to s. 12 of the Act.
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July 11, 2024
Gluckstein Lawyers articling student promoted to associate
A news release from Gluckstein Lawyers announced the promotion of Navneet Ranu to associate.
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July 11, 2024
New associate joins Polley Faith
A recent news release announced the addition of Alexia Parente as an associate at the litigation firm, Polley Faith LLP.
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July 11, 2024
Murder appeal case considers probative value of video, judge’s commentary
Nineteen-year-old Kamar McIntosh of Brampton was shot at a Popeye’s restaurant in Mississauga, Ont., on April 27, 2017. He was rushed to hospital, where he died of his injuries. By May, Peel Regional Police named two suspects seen leaving the scene of the shooting, Thulani Chizanga, 19, of Mississauga and Shamar Lawson Meredith, 18, of no fixed address.
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July 11, 2024
Investing in the U.S.: What you need for a visa
There are people all over the world who are interested in investing in the United States. Fortunately, there is a visa classification, the E-2 Treaty Investor, that covers many of them.
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July 10, 2024
Review launched into CRA’s ‘last minute’ change of 2023 bare trust filing requirements
The taxpayers’ ombudsperson, François Boileau, has launched a systemic examination into whether the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) “respected taxpayers’ rights in its administration of bare trust filing requirements for the 2023 tax year.”
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July 10, 2024
RCMP charges federal consultant with $250K in overbilling to federal agencies
In an unusual move, the federal government has praised the RCMP for investigating an individual consultant who was subsequently charged for “fraudulently overbilling the Government of Canada” as part of an overall RCMP probe into an estimated $5 million in contractor overbilling.
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July 10, 2024
Court certifies class action against federal practice of holding immigration detainees in prisons
The Ontario Superior Court has certified a class action against the federal government over the use of provincial prisons to hold immigration detainees between 2016 and 2023.