The Complete Brief

  • June 25, 2026

    B.C. Court of Appeal expands the practical reach of liquidation relief

    The British Columbia Court of Appeal’s decision in Golden Spigot Pub Ltd. v. Eddy Ng Management Services Ltd., 2026 BCCA 231, strengthens liquidation as a practical remedy in disputes involving closely held corporations that function like partnerships.

  • June 25, 2026

    Lost Canadians: IRCC reverses Bill C-3 citizenship certificate surrender orders

    In one of the fastest reversals in recent memory, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has begun walking back the “surrender letters” it sent to Lost Canadians days earlier — telling many of the people ordered to hand back their Bill C-3 (An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025)) citizenship certificates that they can keep them after all.

  • June 25, 2026

    New era of trauma-informed intakes: What Ahluwalia and Bill C-16 demand of legal professionals

    For any legal practitioner or advocate deep in the gender-based violence (GBV) sector, certain names carry an undeniable historical weight. Recently, my mind has been occupied by a striking parallel: two landmark legal decisions, separated by more than 30 years and a vast ocean, yet fundamentally bound by the same name, the same history of horrific abuse and the same foundational concept: coercive control.

  • June 25, 2026

    Trademarks: The interest of justice applied

    In a previous post, I discussed the requirement that parties obtain leave before filing additional evidence on an appeal from the Registrar of Trademarks to the Federal Court. The Federal Court has now applied the same test to refuse leave.

  • June 25, 2026

    SENTENCING - Offences relating to conveyances - Dangerous operation of motor vehicle causing death - Impaired operation

    Appeals by appellant Robertson from convictions and from a global sentence of 17 years’ imprisonment. The appeal arose from two incidents of dangerous driving.

  • June 25, 2026

    Admission of secret recordings OK in sexual assault case, Ontario court says

    Ontario’s top court has upheld the convictions of a man accused of sexual assault, saying he did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in recordings the complainant made that allegedly included conversations they had about the assaults.

  • June 24, 2026

    B.C. court splits data-breach class action between B.C. and Ontario

    The British Columbia Supreme Court has certified statutory privacy tort claims in a 2023 data breach affecting nearly 1.5 million Canadian investors, but held that overlapping negligence and breach-of-contract claims should proceed in an existing national class action in Ontario.

  • June 24, 2026

    Feds launch process to list major projects under the Building Canada Act

    On June 24, the federal government announced the initiation of three major projects of interest to be listed under the Building Canada Act (the Act): the Mackenzie Valley Highway Project, the Grays Bay Road and Port Project, and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO)’s Deep Geological Repository (DGR).

  • June 24, 2026

    Lessons learned from my COO

    When I became the managing partner of my firm, we hired an excellent general manager, who ultimately became our COO. I will call her Bev. Bev had a background in business, significant experience in Human Resources, and a great capacity for emotional intelligence, all of which were in short supply among our partners.

  • June 24, 2026

    N.B. maintaining rent cap amid housing crunch

    New Brunswick is extending a rent cap put in place to combat an ongoing housing crisis in the Maritime province. According to a June 24 news release, the province “is maintaining its rent cap at three per cent for the 2027 calendar year in response to ongoing affordability issues.”

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