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With Courts available only for urgent matters, and many Ontarians finding themselves with reduced incomes and confined to their homes, there are myriad of unique and unprecedented questions arising for the lawyers assisting through family breakdown.

The current constantly evolving situation creates a myriad of unique and unprecedented challenges for both Crown and Defence counsel, as well as the accused and convicted.

Navigating Canada’s export controls and sanctions regimes may seem overwhelming for the uninitiated. Canada’s network of sanctions laws, regulations and export controls are constantly evolving, responding to geopolitical events and technological innovation.

Governments in Canada are afforded important legal tools, to help protect the public, during times of crisis. 

What does a new decade bring for advising your clients on U.S. tax law? Join our faculty to update yourself on cross-border tax issues involving residency implications, acquiring and holding foreign property, and limiting U.S. estate tax.

In light of all of the concerns and developments currently facing us as a society, there are many rapidly evolving issues for employers.

Lawyers are receiving an increasing number of inquiries related to force majeure clauses, liability of occupiers for the spread of the virus in their space, contract issues arising from cancellations and availability of insurance to cover losses.

On December 19, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in a trilogy of cases, Vavilov, Bell Canada and NFL, rewriting the standard of review analysis set out in Dunsmuir.

The intersection of bankruptcy and taxation is a complicated area of the law. While there are a limited number of provisions in Canada's federal taxation statutes that specifically address situations where a taxpayer has become insolvent, there are a variety of other provisions that can apply to insolvency situations that lawyers must be aware of in order to best serve their clients.

“Breaking the internet” used to refer to literally making the internet unusable. In recent years, it has come to mean dominating the online conversation. When it comes to current issues in broadcasting law, both meanings may apply.