Personal Injury
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December 15, 2025
How holiday stress contributes to domestic-related calls and charges
The holiday season is often celebrated as a time of warmth, tradition and togetherness. Yet for many households in Canada, it also brings a unique mix of pressures that can contribute to increased conflict in the home.
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December 12, 2025
SCC clarifies warrantless arrest power, affirms right of defence to challenge legality of such arrests
Ruling 9-0, the Supreme Court of Canada has delineated statutory limits on the power of police to make warrantless arrests and the nature of their statutory partial immunity for “good faith” but mistaken warrantless arrests, thereby clarifying that Criminal Code s. 495 does not bar a criminal accused from the opportunity to allege that their warrantless arrest was illegal and thus infringed their s. 9 Charter-guaranteed right not to be arbitrarily detained or arrested.
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December 11, 2025
Report finds N.B. highways in poor condition, overseers not keeping up
An audit report out of New Brunswick finds almost half of its highways to be in poor condition, and that it recently had the highest per capita highway death rate of all Canadian provinces.
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December 10, 2025
Prison lawyers: Contraband smugglers or misunderstood advocates?
The main gate phone rang; it was the shift supervisor: “We got Milano’s lawyer comin’ in at 13:30, make sure you check him good!”
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December 10, 2025
TYPES OF DAMAGES - For personal injuries - Cost of future care - Loss of earning capacity - Non-pecuniary loss
Appeal by King from trial judge’s award for past and future loss of earning capacity. Cross-appeal by Karpenko from awards for non-pecuniary damages, past and future loss of earning capacity, and cost of future care. Karpenko was rear-ended while merging onto a highway and sustained chronic soft tissue injuries.
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December 09, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal upholds vexatious-litigant order against IP company and officer
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld an order declaring a corporation and its sole officer vexatious litigants, citing years of meritless court proceedings, hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid costs awards and multimillion-dollar lawsuits that ultimately settled for nuisance-level amounts.
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December 08, 2025
Quebec’s young lawyers are suffering psychological distress, report reveals
More than 60 per cent of Quebec lawyers with fewer than 10 years of experience suffer from psychological distress, a comprehensive study reveals, painting a disconcerting portrait of young lawyers overwhelmed by stress and struggling with the pressures of billable hours and long workweeks.
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December 05, 2025
Nova Scotia court approves $36.2M settlement in deaf schools abuse case
The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has approved a $36.2-million settlement for a class action concerning the alleged abuse and mistreatment of former students at two schools for deaf children, according to a release issued on Dec. 4 by class counsel Wagners.
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December 05, 2025
Supreme Court rules in R. v. B.F. attempted murder case
When someone has provided a person with the means to take their own life, and that person makes an independent and autonomous choice to do so, the question arises: how are we to distinguish between the offences of culpable homicide and aiding suicide?
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December 05, 2025
Dashcam evidence and delay explanations: LAT reaffirms flexible, fact-driven approach in SABS claims
The use of dashcam footage in personal injury and accident benefits disputes is rapidly changing the way Ontario adjudicators assess both liability and credibility. In a recent decision involving my client, the Licence Appeal Tribunal reaffirmed how critical this form of objective evidence can be, while also clarifying how tribunals evaluate delayed benefit applications under the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS).