Duval Hesler first woman chief justice of Quebec
For the first time, a woman has been named chief justice of Quebec.Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Justice Nicole Duval Hesler to the position of chief justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal on...
View ArticleFeds appoint six lawyers to the bench
The federal government has appointed six lawyers as judges at courts across the country.Late Friday, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced the appointment of Gordon Weatherill of Vancouver’s Lawson...
View ArticlePwC loses bid to avoid claims in Quebec
The Quebec Court of Appeal has dismissed the joint appeal of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Coopers & Lybrand in the on-going case involving Montreal-based Castor Holdings Ltd.The decision, which came...
View ArticleThis week at the SCC
This week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear four appeals, including Rocco Galati’s constitutional challenge of Federal Court of Appeal Justice Robert Mainville to the Quebec Court of Appeal, as...
View ArticleSCC dismisses appeal of exonerated convict, finds no abuse of process
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision today in the Réjean Hinse case, although disappointing, does include “a slight progression of the law in favour of the wrongly convicted,” says a lawyer for the...
View ArticleQuebec appeal court rules assisted-dying law can go ahead
Quebec can implement Canada’s first law permitting physician-assisted dying, while the federal government decides on a framework for how to handle the tricky ethical issue, the Quebec Court of Appeal...
View ArticleThis week at the SCC
This week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear six appeals. The first three are criminal cases relating to search and seizure and reasonable grounds for arrest. The court is also hearing a case...
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