Personal Injury
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September 27, 2024
Ontario Court of Appeal clarifies pre-judgment interest on personal injury cases
Ever since the Ontario Court of Appeal released MacLeod v. Marshall, 2019 ONCA 842, judges of the Superior Court have struggled with the pre-judgment interest rate for non-motor vehicle collision personal injury cases. Two recent decisions from the Court of Appeal put an end to any question that the presumptive pre-judgment interest rate for non-pecuniary damages is five per cent.
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September 25, 2024
Federal Court expands RCMP class action to include affected family members
The Federal Court has expanded a class action against the RCMP to include family members of RCMP members and reservists allegedly subjected to systemic bullying, intimidation and harassment.
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September 25, 2024
Class action seeks compensation for alleged abuse of Indigenous students at Alberta school
A proposed Alberta class action alleges that Indigenous students at a school in Bonnyville, Alta., were subjected to frequent physical, psychological and sexual abuse from September 1966 to June 1974.
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September 24, 2024
Survey: Half of Canadian small businesses face fraud attempts, victims lose $7,800 on average
Half of all small businesses in Canada experienced either attempted or successful fraud in the past 12 months, with 36 per cent of those that actually fell victim to fraud losing an average of $7,800 as a result, according to a survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and Interac.
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September 23, 2024
Exemptions to abortion bans: More reasons why they don’t work — police reports | Abby Hafer
In my articles of Sept. 12 and Sept.18, I discussed some severe problems with rape exemptions to abortion bans. These included the fact that they effectively punish women for having sex voluntarily as though that is in some way a crime and that they fail to provide access to abortion to those who qualify, since in states with bans abortion clinics all shut down, so those wishing to exercise the rape exemption cannot get an abortion in state anyway.
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September 20, 2024
Canadian Judicial Council says guidelines coming for federal judges’ use of AI, social media
As part of their two-day fall meeting in Charlottetown this week, the chief and associate-chief justices of the nation’s superior courts discussed their progress in creating guidelines for federal judges’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media, the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) says.
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September 20, 2024
Class action launched as ‘forever chemicals’ found in Quebec’s water supply
Class action firm Slater Vecchio LLP has initiated what it calls a “groundbreaking” class action lawsuit that seeks compensation for past and future costs related to removing “forever chemicals” from Quebec’s water supply.
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September 20, 2024
Howie, Sacks & Henry expands with new associate
A recent news release announced that the firm of Howie, Sacks & Henry has welcomed Daniel Rabinovitch as an associate.
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September 19, 2024
Treasury Board president Anita Anand gets second Cabinet post as transport minister
Liberal MP Anita Anand, the president of the federal Treasury Board and former defence minister in the Liberal government, has taken on the additional post of minister of transportation.
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September 19, 2024
Bar groups, regulators condemn Manitoba NDP’s ouster of lawyer MLA over Nygard connection
The Law Society of Manitoba, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC) and Crown and defence bar groups are deploring comments publicly made by Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and Mike Moyes, chair of the governing NDP caucus, that purported to justify expelling a Winnipeg criminal lawyer from their caucus because he works at a law firm that defends Peter Nygard, a high-profile Manitoban recently convicted of multiple sex crimes.