Wealthy visitor not dependent on family, court rules in insurance case
Golam Kibria is a retired engineer with a mortgage-free home and 20 acres of farmland leased out to tenants. He’s obviously financially comfortable, but is he a dependant of his family when it comes to...
View ArticleAn expensive lesson
A Toronto lawyer says he has learned an expensive lesson about not taking clients’ words without a written direction after a judge ordered him to pay nearly $20,000 this week for accepting a settlement...
View ArticleDoes insurance cover theft of pot plants?
A Rockwood, Ont., couple have lost their bid for greater insurance coverage for the theft of their marijuana plants.In an action against TD General Insurance Co., homeowners Darren Stewart and Vanessa...
View ArticleCourt rules consumers not confused by B.C. insurance info web site
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia has lost an appeal in which it sought to wrest control of the domain ICBCadvice.com from the owners of a web site providing basic advice and marketing the...
View ArticleNew auto insurance bill hurts drivers: OTLA
The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association is urging the provincial government to amend auto insurance legislation its claims will deny justice to accident victims.Bill 15, the “fighting fraud and reducing...
View ArticleThis week at the SCC
This week, the Supreme Court of Canada’s spring session begins. Two appeals will be heard. The first is a challenge of ministerial discretion by a Tamil refugee. The other will determine the scope of...
View ArticleAppeal court overrules itself on vicarious liability
In what lawyers are calling an “extremely rare” move, the Ontario Court of Appeal has expressly overruled one of its own past decisions. After grappling with what the court called “a difficult...
View Article‘Minor’ advantage not enough to disqualify former in-house lawyer from case
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge refused to disqualify a lawyer from a case this week even though the lawyer was previously in-house counsel for the company his current client is suing. The...
View ArticlePrivilege, authority, and sex on tap for SCC’s winter session
The Supreme Court of Canada’s winter session kicks off next week, with hearings that deal the usual assortment of criminal and business matters, and the occasional Charter challenge. This season, the...
View ArticleThis week at the SCC
This week, the Supreme Court of Canada’s winter session ends. The court will hear three appeals regarding international tariffs, insurance contracts, and an interesting case in which the judge rejected...
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