Civil Litigation
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May 28, 2025
Elie Laskin joins Harper Grey as an associate
Harper Grey has announced the addition of Elie Laskin as an associate in its health and insurance law groups.
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May 28, 2025
When a child turns away: Understanding the difference between parental alienation and estrangement
In family law, it’s not unusual to see situations where a child refuses to spend time with one parent. But behind that refusal, there’s often a deeper story. The challenge, both for the courts and for the families themselves, is to understand what that story really is.
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May 28, 2025
Decisions made by AI: 4 ways to make legal challenges
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT or BERT have the potential to alleviate overwhelming case loads and focus adjudicators on the substantive merits of the decision before them. In the upcoming decade, tribunal decision-makers will lean on generative A.I. and LLMs to ease their administrative burdens. But reliance on A.I. poses significant challenges.
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May 28, 2025
What ‘agreed statement of facts’ really means
The “facts” aren’t always so obvious. More than 90 per cent of criminal convictions in Canada are not the result of a trial, but of a guilty plea. People plead guilty for many reasons, only one of which is that they are actually guilty. But that’s another matter.
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May 27, 2025
Throne speech states Carney government’s ‘core mission is to build the strongest economy in the G7’
Delivering Canada’s speech from the throne for the first time, King Charles III outlined the Carney Liberal government’s plans to make Canada’s economy the most robust in the G7, including by driving the country’s emergence as an energy superpower and by removing internal trade barriers and other roadblocks to creating big national projects and large-scale affordable housing.
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May 27, 2025
Court: Minority shareholder’s arbitration rights ended by exercise of buyout option
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has ruled that a minority shareholder’s right to arbitrate claims under shareholder agreements was extinguished once the majority shareholder exercised a separate contractual option to purchase his stake.
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May 27, 2025
Class action certified against Bayer for alleged non-disclosure of contraceptive migration risk
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has certified a class action against Bayer Inc. over allegations the pharmaceutical giant failed to disclose the migration risk of its Mirena intrauterine contraceptive device.
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May 27, 2025
Ontario court approves $500M class action settlement with Loblaw over bread price-fixing
The Ontario Superior Court has approved a historic $500-million negotiated settlement in a class action targeting grocery store giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. over their admitted role in an industry-wide scheme to fix the price of bread that stretched from 2001 to 2015.
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May 27, 2025
Yukoners want more legal services in French
Yukon residents want better access to legal resources in the French language. So states a recent What We Heard report released by Yukon’s government, according to a government news release.
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May 27, 2025
Civil court delay reduction and prejudgment interest
In fall 2023, Attorney General Doug Downey created the civil rules review (CRR) with a mandate to identify issues and develop proposals for reforming the Rules of Civil Procedure. The CRR’s Phase 1 Consultation Paper asked: What reforms might improve efficiency and reduce delays and costs?