Other Areas of Practice
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July 25, 2024
Legal status of Tibetans migrants in Canadian refugee law
Tibetans living in exile in India, Nepal and Bhutan often call themselves stateless refugees since they lost their country following China’s invasion of Tibet in the 1950s, and they still cannot return to their Tibetan homeland due to the lack of freedom and human rights and the ongoing persecution and cultural genocide by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Tibetan plateau of the Himalayas. Their lack of freedom and risk of harm, including persecution in the form of detention, torture and even death or disappearance, is reported yearly by Freedom House, Amnesty International, the U.S. International Committee on Religious Freedom and other non-Tibetan organizations. Many of these Tibetans have come to Canada seeking refugee protection.
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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
New partner joins Torys in Montreal
Torys LLP recently announced the addition of Anne Merminod as a partner in the firm’s Montreal office, with a practice focusing on class action litigation.
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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 22, 2024
Class action seeking $10M launched against Calgary for ruptured water main
A proposed class action has been launched against the City of Calgary and Calgary-based utility Enmax Corp. over flooding that resulted from the major water main rupture that occurred in the city in June, which the lawsuit alleges was caused by known defects in the main since its installation in the 1970s. The claim seeks $10 million in general damages.
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July 19, 2024
The Friday Brief: Managing Editor’s must-read items from this week
Here are my picks for the top stories we published this week.
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July 19, 2024
CROWN — Actions by and against Crown — Statutory defences, immunities and bars to actions
Appeal by Attorney General of Canada (Canada) from a judgment of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal which affirmed a judgment of the Court of Queen’s Bench concluding that Crown’s immunity was not absolute. Power had been convicted of two criminal offences and had served a term of imprisonment.
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July 19, 2024
Dentons Montreal expands with new partner
Global law firm Dentons recently announced the addition of Alexandre-Philippe Avard as a partner in the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution group.
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July 18, 2024
Court finds doctor cannot amend libel claim against lawyer who represented car accident victim
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s Divisional Court has dismissed an appeal of a decision that denied a doctor’s request to amend his statement of claim in a libel case against a lawyer who was involved in a car accident insurance claim case.
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July 17, 2024
Feds concerned about cross-border negative impacts of CDC’s new dog regulations
Health Minister Mark Holland has raised concerns about the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision to tighten import and entry requirements for dogs crossing the Canada-U.S. border effective Aug. 1, citing negative impacts on tourism, transportation and the economy for both countries.