Personal Injury
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March 20, 2025
Federal plan aims to end over-criminalization of Indigenous people & support Indigenous legal orders
The minority Liberal government has rolled out its “Indigenous Justice Strategy”— the first federal roadmap toward revitalizing Indigenous laws and legal orders and ending the over-criminalization of Indigenous people in Canada, Ottawa says. The single-spaced 46-page document was developed by the federal government over more than four years, taking into account extensive consultations with Indigenous community members, representative organizations and governments, as well as with provincial and territorial governments.
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March 20, 2025
McCague Borlack hires new associate
Juela Xhaferraj has joined the Ontario-based firm McCague Borlack.
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March 19, 2025
Judge rejects bias claim in class action alleging junior hockey leagues encouraged violence
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has dismissed an application seeking her recusal from a proposed class action alleging that Canadian major junior hockey leagues permitted and even encouraged fighting and violence among players.
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March 19, 2025
Future of Sport in Canada Commission extended
Steven Guilbeault, minister of Canadian Culture and Identity, Parks Canada and Quebec Lieutenant, today announced the extension of the mandate of the Future of Sport in Canada Commission. The commission is currently undertaking an independent and forward-looking review of Canada’s sport system.
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March 19, 2025
Alexander Holburn hires three new lawyers
Matthew Desmarais, Naomi Krueger and Nicolas Pimentel have joined Alexander Holburn at its Vancouver office.
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March 18, 2025
Federal Court dismisses $2.5B class action alleging anti-Black discrimination in public service
The Federal Court has dismissed a proposed $2.5 billion class action commenced by Black public servants who alleged systemic discrimination in hiring and promotions in the public service.
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March 18, 2025
Quebec, Ontario courts approve $14.7M settlement in antipsychotic drug class action
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Quebec have approved a class action settlement of over $14 million for those who suffered adverse reactions to aripiprazole, an atypical antipsychotic drug that sells under the brand names Abilify and Abilify Maintena.
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March 18, 2025
Nova Scotia takes ‘milestone’ step to becoming accessible
Nova Scotia has adopted the first of six accessibility standards in its goal of province-wide accessibility.
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March 17, 2025
Federal Court of Appeal decision keeps class action alive involving Indigenous women inmates
Indigenous female inmates in Canada’s federal prison system have gained a partial legal victory in their quest to certify a class action against the government over discrimination by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).
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March 14, 2025
SCC extends Charter-guaranteed presumption of innocence to inmate discipline proceedings
Overruling its own 35-year-old precedent while expanding the Charter’s protections for the presumption of innocence into new legal territory, the Supreme Court of Canada split 6-3 to strike down a Saskatchewan regulation that authorized inmate segregation or loss of earned remission to be imposed on those found to have committed a prison disciplinary offence, based only on proof on a “balance of probabilities” standard rather than on the heightened standard of proof “beyond a reasonable doubt.”