Criminal
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September 13, 2024
Judge declines to boot novel JR of Ottawa’s renewed funding for the UN relief agency in Gaza
After the federal government failed to get the case dismissed on a preliminary motion to strike, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and four victims of the Hamas massacre in Israel last year can move ahead with their novel judicial review of Ottawa’s decision to resume funding the largest humanitarian aid agency in the Gaza Strip.
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September 13, 2024
Canada Bread lawsuit against Maple Leaf Foods ‘largely unprecedented’: competition law expert
One of Canada’s most experienced competition law experts says that Canada Bread’s decision to sue Maple Leaf Foods in a bid to recover costs associated with a long-running bread price-fixing case is “largely unprecedented” and will be watched closely by both the Competition Bureau and the federal Department of Justice (DOJ).
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September 13, 2024
Courts did not err in convictions against defendants in drug cases: Ontario Court of Appeal
Ontario’s top court has ruled against four men convicted of various drug-related offences in a case involving wiretap evidence and information from confidential informants.
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September 13, 2024
2 associates join Aird & Berlis Vancouver
A recent news release from Aird & Berlis LLP announced that Rikki Logan and Lauren Mar joined the firm’s Indigenous practice group in Vancouver.
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September 13, 2024
COMPELLING APPEARANCE, DETENTION AND RELEASE - Release or detention after trial or pending appeal - Bail
Application for bail pending appeal by Wardini, who was convicted of multiple offenses, including choking, assault, sexual assault, and forcible confinement against his former intimate partner between 2013 and 2015. He was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
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September 12, 2024
BCSC finds woman defrauded investors of nearly $2M in ‘predatory’ scheme
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) will maintain a temporary market ban on a woman it found defrauded investors of about $2 million “under the guise of helping Chinese students and tourists.”
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September 12, 2024
Sentence over? Now the punishment really starts | David Dorson
The title of this column comes from a poster I saw many years ago; the caption appeared over a picture of an empty jail cell with a barred door standing open. It accurately captures the experience of many people after release from prison. Most people think that when a prison sentence is over, the person goes back to a normal life. Almost everyone who serves time is immensely grateful at first to be released — and then you realize that your sentence is not over at all and that in many ways it will never be over.
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September 12, 2024
Minimizing bias in GenAI interactions | Connie L. Braun
During our lifetimes, every one of us has developed propensities and biases toward life, people, institutions and organizations — pretty much everything. These biases shape how we interact with technology and can be particularly apparent in our interactions with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Since the humans who make AI are biased, it may be natural to conclude that AI also is likely to be biased.
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September 12, 2024
Rape exemptions to abortion laws, or why women shouldn’t have sex for fun | Abby Hafer
The issues of abortion and rape are frequently intertwined. There is something viscerally disgusting about the idea of a woman being forced to carry to term a fetus caused by her rapist. For this reason, advocates for abortion rights often use this as an example of why abortions should be legal.
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September 12, 2024
Charge of evidence inadmissibility fails to persuade appeal court in sex assault decision
The modus operandi of sexual predators has become all too familiar. In the United States, there was Jeffrey Epstein, and in Canada, there was Selva Subbiah.