Banking, Bankruptcy & Insolvency
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June 24, 2024
Alberta court orders garnished funds to be distributed under BIA, not to judgment creditors
An Alberta court has ordered that funds from garnishees, found liable for payments owed by the bankrupt judgment debtor, be distributed in accordance with the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) rather than be used to satisfy the judgment debts.
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June 24, 2024
Liberal government’s ‘intransigence’ and undue secrecy spurs litigation: information commissioner
A recent ruling from the Federal Court affirming a disclosure-of-government records order by Canada’s Information Commissioner illustrates the growth in litigation highlighted by the commissioner's 2023-24 annual report to Parliament, a litigation trend she says is fuelled by the Trudeau government’s court challenges and flouting of her legally binding orders.
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June 21, 2024
Public school boards are bound by Charter; tribunals’ Charter rulings reviewed for correctness: SCC
In an important Charter and standard of review case, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that labour arbitrators and other administrative tribunals “should play a primary role” in deciding Charter issues within their bailiwicks — which Charter determinations courts should review on a “correctness” rather than “reasonableness” standard — and that the Charter applies to Ontario public school boards, thereby protecting board employees’ reasonable expectations of privacy in their workplaces and shielding employees from unreasonable search or seizure by their employers.
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June 21, 2024
Ontario Court overturns finding that company directors were personally liable in property dispute
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a finding that the directors of two companies were personally liable for the proceeds of the sale of a property that was the subject of a joint venture dispute.
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June 21, 2024
Court of Appeal rules $730K business debt for pipeline cleanup not covered by B.C. environmental law
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal in a ruling that found that the lower court judge erred in determining that a creditor’s recovery claim for environmental remediation work related to a pipeline spill involved issues to be tried, rather finding that there was no cause of action.
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June 21, 2024
3 judicial appointments in Ontario
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani announced in a June 18 press release three judicial appointments to the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario: Barbara A. MacFarlane, Colleen Yamashita and S. James Mountford.
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June 20, 2024
Ottawa lists Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity in Criminal Code
The Government of Canada listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code, effective June 19, 2024.
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June 20, 2024
New partner joins Gowling in Toronto
A recent news release from Gowling WLG announced the addition of partner Asim Iqbal in the firm’s corporate restructuring, insolvency and advisory group.
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June 18, 2024
More Russians sanctioned for complicity in Putin regime’s responsibility for death of Alexei Navalny
Ottawa has sanctioned 13 additional senior officials and high-ranking employees of Russia’s investigation agency, penitentiary service and police force, who Global Affairs Canada says “were involved in the ill-treatment and death” of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who survived the Putin regime’s attempt to fatally poison him in 2020, only to die this year in a Russian prison.
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June 17, 2024
New partner joins Dentons Calgary
A new partner has joined the Calgary office of Dentons, a news release from the firm announced recently. The addition of Mark Ricketts helps to expand the firm’s banking and finance group, and he is also a part of the firm’s real estate group.