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Ontario court rules search of car trunk under Liquor Licence Act unlawful

Indefinite licence suspension automatically following dangerous driving conviction giving rise to miscarriage of justice

Recent case in which the appropriate punishment for contempt was the refusal to hear a mother’s motions until she was in compliance.

T. (D.L.) v. M. (K.K.) | 2015 CarswellBC 2825 | British Columbia Supreme Court

Recent case in which a settlement agreement was not found to be unconscionable or unfair to the wife.

Recent Ontario cases find harsh remand conditions result in extraordinary credit for pre-sentence custody

This post examines the burdens and standards of proof within our legal system, as well as the related concepts of presumptions of fact, rebuttable presumptions and reverse onus presumptions and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This digest highlights a recent B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision where damages were awarded for religious harassment.

Motor Coils Manufacturing Ltd. and Unifor, Local 520 (Steacy), Re (2015) [2015] O.L.A.A. No. 263, 2015 CarswellOnt 10254 Ontario Arbitration

The case comment explores the issue of whether the Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) an asset that flows into the Estate (to be divided amongst the Estate’s residuary beneficiaries)? Or, to the person named by the Deceased, pre-death, as a beneficiary on the designation/declaration form?

In the Special Focus section of this newsletter, the authors review the decision Mayotte v. Ontario which interprets and applies the scope of the duty of honest performance as set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Bhasin v. Hrynew.

In "Mending Wall"1 , poet Robert Frost and his neighbour are engaged in their annual spring ritual of repairing the stacked stone wall that divides their properties.