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Girls Make Games debut in Canada at the Thomson Reuters Customer Centre in Toronto. Learn more about the event.

The Hon. René Marin discusses two recent SCC cases on text messages in the upcoming release of Admissibility of Statements, 9th edition

A “latent ambiguity” exists where the ambiguity becomes clear in the context of evidence.

In light of today's announcement that the Cleveland Indians baseball team will remove their "Chief Wahoo" logo from their uniforms in 2019, many news stories are recalling Douglas Cardinal's 2016 application, ultimately rejected, for an interim and interlocutory injunction enjoining the Cleveland Indians Baseball Company, Major League Baseball and Rogers Communications from displaying or broadcasting the "Indians" name and "Chief Wahoo" logo within Canada.

Property never belonged to plaintiff and was not put into names of defendants to facilitate their dealing with it on her behalf

Nichol v. Nichol (2017), 2017 MBQB 144, 2017 CarswellMan 496 (Man. Q.B.)

Employee awarded $500,000 punitive damages for breach of employment contract, and $250,000 for moral damages; Employer decided to dismiss or denigrate employee to point of resignation

As of January 17th Legislative Watch will be available as a NEW add-on subscription to LawSource that will allow users to track individual bills or bills relating to specific statutes for deeper, more efficient research.

The doctrine of unexplained recent possession allows a fact finder in a case of unexplained recent possession of goods unlawfully obtained to infer that the accused knew that the property was unlawfully obtained.

A “scab” is a traitor to the union cause (typically a strike-breaker).

Laws and regulations are constantly being changed, interpreted, and redefined. Stay informed on select new Supreme Court of Canada cases, significant or interesting decisions from the federal courts (trial, appeal, and tax), as well as cases from superior and provincial courts across the country.

Employer gave working notice to employee on medical leave. Employee awarded damages equal to salary he would have earned working during the notice period.