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Elliott v. R. | 2013 CarswellNat 2540 (T.C.C.) | Boyle J

It is trite to say that that making a living is a stressful activity and that much of life can be nasty and brutish.

The Combating Counterfeit Products Act, S.C. 2014. c. 32 provides Canada Border Services Agency with authority to take action against commercial movement of counterfeit goods at border and adds new criminal offences relating to counterfeit goods.

An appeal court issued its first decision regarding the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines and provided a detailed standard of review analysis.

This post summarizes a recent BC Provincial Court case which discusses the need for creative sentences in cases involving first time offenders.

This post explains how legal researchers can use westlaw Canada's new auto-suggest feature to find cases by name even faster and more efficiently.

Century 21 Canada Ltd. Partnership v. Rogers Communications Inc. | 2011 CarswellBC 2348 (B.C. S.C.) | Punnett J.

In self-represented litigation, the "pleadings" rarely reflect meaningful details of the issues to be tried.

This post provides an update on recent changes to the Estate Administration Tax Act, 1998 in Ontario.

This post summarizes a recent case in which several journalists were found to have defamed a climate researcher.

Fuhr v. Churchbridge (Regional Municipality) No. 211 | 2013 CarswellSask 610 (Sask. Prov. Ct.) | Klause Prov. J.

To understand these appeals one must first gain an understanding of how the process of credentialing and privileging physicians within [the health authority] actually works, an understanding that likely is beyond the general knowledge of most people in [the province].