Business
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November 19, 2024
Class action launched against global pharmaceutical giant and Canadian subsidiary for privacy breach
A proposed national class action has been filed against global pharmaceutical wholesaler Cencora, Inc. and its Canadian subsidiary Innomar Strategies, Inc. for a privacy breach that compromised the personal and health information of individual Canadians, class counsel Charney Lawyers announced on Nov. 18.
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November 19, 2024
New Quebec requirements for information security incidents reporting by financial institutions
The Regulation respecting the management and reporting of information security incidents by certain financial institutions and credit assessment agents (the Regulation), published in the Gazette officielle du Québec on Oct. 23, 2024, introduces new requirements to enhance the management and reporting of information security incidents to the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).
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November 19, 2024
New associate joins Gluckstein Lawyers
A recent news release from Gluckstein Lawyers announced the addition of David Stein as an associate in the firm’s class action and mass tort team.
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November 19, 2024
Defamatory statements and the doctrine of absolute privilege
When representing clients in disputes, lawyers often need to write to third parties to seek information and address the nature of the allegations that are at issue. Adverse parties who were discussed in such correspondence may feel that they have grounds to pursue a claim for defamation based on the nature of the allegations, particularly if matters have yet to be determined.
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November 18, 2024
Ottawa providing funding to investigate how to fix shortage of francophone law clerks in Canada
The federal government is providing $68,589 to help Collège La Cité in Ottawa assess how the college’s French law clerk program can be used to fill labour shortages in Ontario and other provinces with francophone minority communities.
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November 18, 2024
Proposed class action filed against Gap and Old Navy for alleged false discounts
A proposed national class action has been filed against Gap and Old Navy for allegedly selling their products at false discounts. The lawsuit alleges that the products that the clothing retail chains sell online are “rarely, if ever, sold at the undiscounted ‘regular price.’”
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November 18, 2024
FINTRAC advisory underlines G7 warnings about North Korea, Iran and Myanmar
Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog is echoing warnings from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies cautioning financial institutions to be wary of all transactions emanating from North Korea, Iran, Myanmar and several other jurisdictions.
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November 18, 2024
Successful appeal addresses principles behind sentencing
There have been several cases in Ontario involving the possession of handguns and their use in threatening situations. The sentences imposed upon conviction have been in the range of four years even for youthful first offenders.
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November 18, 2024
Why digital legacy planning should now be part of every estate plan
We’ve all seen the Facebook profiles of departed friends that appear on our timelines, floating by like digital zombies. Although social media platforms like Facebook have introduced procedures such as memorialization and legacy contact to manage the accounts of deceased or incapacitated users, many remain in cyber-limbo due to a lack of a proactive digital legacy plan, as any estate planning lawyer will tell you.
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November 15, 2024
SCC majority overturns acquittals in first judgment on human trafficking provisions enacted in 2005
In pronouncing for the first time on the Criminal Code’s human trafficking provisions that came into force in 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada has overturned 7-2 a Nova Scotia man’s acquittals, ruling that the trial court erred in determining that the accused’s violence against his ex-spouse was evidence of “past discreditable conduct” outside the allegations in the indictment and, therefore, did not go to proving the essential elements of the offences in s. 279.01(1) and 279.02(1) of the Code.