Civil Litigation
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July 15, 2025
DLA Piper welcomes associate Cameron Fox
Cameron Fox has joined the Edmonton office of DLA Piper (Canada) LLP as an associate in the litigation, arbitration and investigations group.
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July 15, 2025
B.C. court affirms Labour Board’s power to bar shifting ‘struck’ work beyond province
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld an order that barred an airline catering provider from relying on catering crews outside of B.C to load meals onto flights going through Vancouver, where its workers were on strike.
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July 15, 2025
Termination clauses: The unenforceable
Recently I was reviewing the briefs that counsel had submitted for a mediation, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that counsel for the employer had not even bothered to assert that the termination clause was enforceable. It clearly was not in light of the current state of the law, but that does not usually stop counsel from making the argument.
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July 14, 2025
Federal Court judge strikes SRL’s submission in employment dispute over AI hallucination citation
In another sign of AI’s growing impact on the law, the Federal Court has ordered that a self-represented respondent’s motion record be removed from a court file because it relied in part on a non-existent court decision hallucinated by an artificial intelligence (AI) research tool.
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July 14, 2025
FINTRAC publishes updates to its guidance on ministerial directive on Iran
Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog has updated its existing guidance related to the federal government’s ministerial directive on financial transactions associated with Iran.
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July 14, 2025
Federal Court quashes ISC denial of $200,000 Jordan’s Principle mould remediation funding request
The Federal Court set aside an Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) decision denying a $200,000 Jordan’s Principle funding request for mould remediation, ruling that ISC wrongly rejected the request due to lack of comparable public services without assessing the concerned children’s health needs.
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July 14, 2025
Alberta giving $1.25 million to groups in bid to end gender-based violence
Alberta is launching a new grant program through which more than $1 million will be available to community organizations as part of the province’s ongoing bid to tackle gender-based violence.
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July 14, 2025
Court approves $1.75M class action settlement in balcony malfunction case
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved a $1.75-million class action settlement in a case where balconies became inaccessible to condo residents due to alleged design issues.
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July 14, 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE - Pleadings - Significant irregularity causing prejudice
Appeal by appellant against a court order dismissing its application to strike certain portions of respondent’s response to civil claim. The appellant was a Chinese company in the business of commercial lending.
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July 14, 2025
Delay costs father on urgent motion over mother’s no-notice relocation
A recent Divisional Court decision suggests that parents left behind after an unauthorized relocation must act quickly to object — and stay actively involved in the child’s life — if they hope to prevent the new living arrangements from solidifying before trial.