Business
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July 24, 2024
Federal government approves collective agreement with unionized border workers
The federal government has approved a tentative collective agreement covering about 11,000 workers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and its Border Services bargaining unit.
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July 24, 2024
Duty of tech competence, AI adoption by lawyers | Connie L. Braun and Juliana Saxberg
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dominated legal tech conversations for several years, and for good reason. Widespread consumer adoption of ChatGPT and other generative AI products has delivered a host of unprecedented legal and tech risks to Canadian entities. Governments and regulators in Canada and abroad continue to scramble to regulate the responsible use of AI tools, even though their use is already thoroughly embedded in Canadian and global business, government and legal system operations. As a result, the typical Canadian entity’s AI compliance dossier is an unfinished patchwork of aspirational codes and aging regulatory instruments that were designed when Y2K was considered a big enterprise tech risk.
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July 24, 2024
CIVIL PROCEDURE — Judgments and orders — Amendment, rescission and variation — After judgment entered
Appeal by Wing Wah Investment Inc. and Kevin Yi-Hsiung Hsieh (Wing Wah), from judge’s interpretation of interest provisions in mortgage, and from use of slip rule to correct amounts in order nisi years later. Wing Wah loaned $225,000 to respondent-borrower, Sathasivam, secured by a second mortgage.
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July 24, 2024
New managing partner for Aird & Berlis
Jill P. Fraser, a senior partner in Aird & Berlis’s financial services group and a long-standing member of the executive committee, the firm’s new managing partner.
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July 24, 2024
Whatever happened to the Osgoode Hall restaurant? | Joseph Groia
Osgoode Hall, named after William Osgoode, Upper Canada's first chief justice, is one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in Canada. It was opened in 1832 to house Ontario’s Law Society as well as its law school. John Ewart and William Warren Baldwin designed the original building, which was built between 1829 and 1832, in the late Georgian Paladin and Neoclassical styles. The building was then expanded in 1844, and in 1846, the court space was added. Today it is a national historical site and is considered one of Canada’s greatest examples of Victorian classical architecture. It is jointly owned by the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) and the government of Ontario.
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July 23, 2024
Federal Court orders broadcaster to pay $27.3M for copyright infringement of Turkish programs
The Federal Court has ordered a broadcaster to pay $27.3 million for infringing the copyrights of Turkish broadcaster Kanal D on 2,729 episodes of 22 television programs.
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July 23, 2024
Canadian securities regulators stepped up enforcement in 2023-24, driven in part by crypto schemes
Canadian securities regulators commenced 83 enforcement proceedings between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, with 27 cases of selling securities illegally making it the most common offence, according to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) annual year-in-review report.
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July 23, 2024
Appeal court finds insured not covered for failing to notify insurer of securities fraud probe
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal in which the insured was not able to receive coverage or relief from forfeiture due to his delay in notifying the insurer about circumstances that would reasonably lead to a claim.
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July 23, 2024
Ontario appellate court releases rare ruling on eyewitness, voice identification evidence
In a rare ruling that addressed both eyewitness and voice identification, the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for a man convicted of sexual assault in 2022 after finding that the trial judge failed to provide proper jury instructions regarding both forms of identification.
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July 23, 2024
Remote scenarios: Ontario court clarifies evidentiary requirements for manufacturing defect claim
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently dismissed a plaintiff’s product liability claim based on negligent manufacture and the duty to warn, for damages totalling $250,000. The decision of Pelton v. Maytag Ltd., 2024 ONSC 3016, clarifies evidentiary requirements necessary to establish a manufacturing defect claim as well as the scope of a manufacturer’s duty to warn of foreseeable risks.