In-House Counsel
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October 10, 2024
New report highlights lack of racialized lawyers at Ontario firms, offers diversity ranking
Blink Equity, an organization founded to combat systemic racism in workplaces, has released what it calls a “landmark report” titled “The Blink Score: A Racial Diversity Audit & Ranking of Ontario Law Firms,” said to indicate a “lack of inclusion” in the profession.
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October 10, 2024
Canadian Judicial Council rolls out new advisory guidelines for federal judges on their social media use
“Proceed with caution” might sum up, in a nutshell, the latest official advice for judges on their use of social media.
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October 10, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and voice contracts: Where are we now in Entertainment Law?
In the evolving battle of artificial intelligence (AI) and aggregated personality, characteristics and attributes of actors and famous personalities, the human voice has become a persistent battleground, one that is followed keenly by entertainment lawyers.
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October 10, 2024
Treatment of trusts in equalization claims
Calculation of an equalization claim under the Family Law Act first requires the value of an individual spouse’s Net Family Property (NFP). Where a spouse is a beneficiary of a trust, there are two key questions to consider while calculating NFP:
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October 10, 2024
A reasonable decision is not a binding precedent | Sara Blake
May a tribunal change its mind after a court has found its decision to be reasonable?
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October 09, 2024
Taxpayers’ ombudsperson reports that complaints, inquiries surged as CRA resumed collection activities
The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson (OTO) saw a 29 per cent increase in complaints and a 62 per cent increase in inquiries in 2023-24 as the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) resumed collection activities that were put on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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October 09, 2024
Class action settlement approved in case against HSBC related to Ponzi scheme
The British Columbia Supreme Court has approved a class action settlement requiring HSBC Bank to pay up to $1.2 million to the victims of a Ponzi scheme that two of the bank's clients operated through their HSBC accounts.
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October 09, 2024
With strike, court actions ended, McGill law profs, university go to arbitration
A “new path forward” has been forged between McGill University and its unionized law professors through a memorandum of understanding that ends both a faculty strike and the school’s legal challenge to the union’s existence.
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October 09, 2024
Personal injury lawyers ask SCC not to make it harder for clients to sue foreign defendants
When can people injured abroad sue in Canadian courts? Does the presumption of innocence apply in non-criminal settings? When a miscarriage of justice occurs, what is the scope of an appeal court’s power to acquit when setting aside a guilty plea? These are some of the questions raised by appeals slated for the Supreme Court of Canada’s new fall session as counsel began making their arguments this week in a court building with stepped-up exterior security features, such as an imposing barricade of large cement planters.
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October 08, 2024
Insured mortgage refinancing for secondary suite construction to be available starting 2025
The federal government has announced that homeowners looking to add secondary suites will be able to refinance insured mortgages, according to an Oct. 8 release. The government has also increased the mortgage insurance home price limit for those refinancing to build a secondary suite to $2 million.