Criminal
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March 03, 2025
Reframing legal technology: From institutional efficiency to user-centric access to justice
Legal practitioners and courts have long anticipated the transformative potential of technology in law. From digitized case management systems to artificial intelligence-driven legal research tools, technological advancements promised efficiency, accessibility, and, ultimately, greater and more meaningful access to justice. However, despite significant investment and integration of digital tools, legal professionals and courts increasingly express skepticism about the tangible benefits of legal technology for justice and access to it.
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February 28, 2025
FINTRAC publishes new guidance and report form for terrorist-affiliated and sanctioned property
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has published new guidance and a new report form for businesses that are subject to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act to report terrorist and sanctioned property-related information.
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February 28, 2025
Nova Scotia court approves $2.1 million settlement in Dell data breach class action
A Halifax law firm has announced court approval of a $2.1 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against computer giant Dell Canada and parent Dell USA over a 2018 data breach.
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February 28, 2025
Nova Scotia planning update of human rights commission
Nova Scotia’s government is planning an upgrade of the province’s human rights commission in a bid to make it more accessible and “responsive” to the public.
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February 28, 2025
SCC rules Métis Nation’s pursuit of overlapping lawsuits against Saskatchewan not abuse of process
The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed 9-0 that a legal challenge by the Métis Nation–Saskatchewan to provincial permits that allow a company to explore for uranium on land to which the Métis claim Aboriginal title in Saskatchewan is not an abuse of process and may go ahead, notwithstanding that the Métis have also launched other lawsuits involving similar issues against the province.
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February 28, 2025
The Great Drain Robbery | Marcel Strigberger
Here it is, the crime overshadowing the 1963 British Great Train Robbery. And even more devious than the theft of Dorothy’s ruby slippers. I am talking about the crime of the century, namely the heist of the $6-million golden toilet from Blenheim Palace in the Oxford, England area. The trial of several accused started a few days ago. And I’ll get to the banana connection shortly.
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February 28, 2025
New partner for Stockwoods
Dan Goudge has become a partner at Stockwoods.
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February 28, 2025
R. v. Jarvis: Did the SCC cast the criminal liability net too wide? Part two
In a landmark decision that has sparked heated debate across legal and public spheres, the Supreme Court of Canada redefined the boundaries of privacy in R. v Jarvis, [2019] 1 S.C.R. 488. The case, involving a high school teacher who secretly recorded his female students, has pushed the limits of what constitutes a “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the digital age.
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February 28, 2025
Juror questions at heart of successful murder appeal
The Ontario Court of Appeal was asked to review the second-degree murder conviction and sentence imposed on a London, Ont., man who chose to call no evidence in his three-week murder trial in 2021.
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February 27, 2025
Justice Minister quashes murder conviction, finds possible miscarriage of justice in decades-old case
Citing the emergence of new information, federal Justice Minister Arif Virani has ordered the retrial of Roy Allan Sobotiak, who was convicted in Edmonton 34 years ago of second-degree murder in the 1987 disappearance of Susan Kaminsky, whose body has never been found.