The Complete Brief
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April 04, 2025
Proposed class action targets Bell, Sunwing, Air Canada, Montreal airport for delays due to outage
A proposed class action has been brought against discount airline Sunwing, the Montréal-Trudeau airport, Air Canada and Bell for a network outage that occurred at the airport on March 25, causing flight delays of nearly 24 hours.
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April 04, 2025
Ontario court injunction bars solicitation of claimants in $32.5 billion tobacco class action
In a rare move, the Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court has granted an injunction preventing lawyers, law firms or other entities from soliciting potential claimants in the mediated $32.5 billion class action settlement involving three tobacco companies, Canadian provinces and territories, and victims of tobacco use.
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April 04, 2025
New report finds businesses not succession ready as many owners retire
Canada is facing a wave of small business closures amid “economic uncertainty and tariff wars,” partly driven by the number of retiring baby boomer entrepreneurs, according to a new report by consulting firm MNP, which found that nearly two-thirds (64.1 per cent) of Canadian businesses have no succession plan.
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April 04, 2025
New partner joins McCarthy Tétrault
This week, McCarthy Tétrault LLP welcomed new partner Vasuda Sinha to its national litigation and dispute resolution group.
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April 04, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal increases ‘inordinately low’ damage assessment in defamation case
B.C.’s top court has increased the amount of special damages in a defamation case by nearly $200,000, after calling out the original assessment as not being adequate.
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April 04, 2025
New Brunswick investing in start of courts’ digital upgrade
New Brunswick is spending $5 million to kick-start the digital transformation of its courts. In what is being called an investment in greater access to justice, New Brunswick’s government will spend more than $32 million over six years for the technological revamp of the province’s court system, which will include various digital upgrades to the courts, as detailed in an April 3 news release.
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April 04, 2025
The Friday Brief: Editor-In-Chief’s must-read items from this week
Here are my picks for the top stories we published this week.
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April 04, 2025
Who piked the drinks? | Marcel Strigberger
A fish story follows. Flanders fish.
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April 04, 2025
Successful appeal examines probative value of the proffered similar act evidence
It is said that sexual assault is one of the hardest crimes to beat in a criminal trial. Nonetheless, Quang Vu was acquitted in the Ontario Court of Justice on Jan.19, 2024. Vu had been charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.
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April 04, 2025
Are law firms involved in politics fair game? | Sergio R. Karas
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court,” which threatens sanctions and other unspecified actions against attorneys who represent asylum seekers or who litigate against the Trump administration’s policies regarding illegal aliens. The memo makes the assertion that immigration attorneys are acting improperly in their efforts to represent people in an increasingly complex and restrictive immigration system. It also ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to recommend revoking attorneys’ security clearances or terminating law firms’ federal contracts if she deems their lawsuits against the administration are “unreasonable” or “vexatious.”