In today's guest post, Danielle Mallozzi examines the Supreme Court of Canada's 2018 decision on whether life insurance beneficiaries should be enriched at the expense of unknowning premium payers. In Moore v Sweet, 2018 SCC 25 (“Moore”), the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) considered whether the appellant, Michelle Moore or the respondent, Risa Sweet was entitled […]
Introduction On January 31, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or "the Court") reached a decision on bankruptcy and insolvency law and the obligations owed by oil and gas companies that have filed for bankruptcy.
Introduction It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator What does harm to the reputation of a polarizing public figure entail? What is the […]
Until late March 2019, when Justice Keith Boswell struck down s.112(2)(b.1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, SC 2001, c 27 [IRPA], refugee claimants from certain “designated” countries were required to wait for two years longer compared to all other refugee claimants for a risk assessment of their removal from Canada. Two weeks ago in Feher v […]