Kamloops lawyer charged in human remains case being sued by bank

Breadcrumb Trail LinksNews Local News CrimeThe Bank of Nova Scotia alleges that Rogelio Butch Bagabuyo and his law firm owe nearly $19,000 in credit card chargesButch Bagabuyo is facing one count of interference with a dead body related to the discovery of a person who died in a vehicle outside a Kamloops home on March 17. Photo by Kamloops This Week /PNGsArticle content Kamloops lawyer Rogelio Butch Bagabuyo, who has been charged with interference with human remains in connection with an ongoing homicide investigation, is being sued by the Bank of Nova Scotia.Advertisements 2This…
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Legal Update: Amendment To The Real Estate Sector Regulation Law – Real Estate

January 12, 2023 Raees + Co To print this article, all you need is to be registered or logged in to Mondaq.com.The principal Law governing the real estate sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain is Legislative Decree No. (27) of 2017 on the Issuance of the Real Estate Sector Regulation Law (the “Law”). On 3 November 2022, the Shura Council along with the Council of Representatives enacted Decree No. (41) of 2022 introducing a new chapter to Section Three of the Law related to the management of the common parts other than through the owner’s union. This…
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Supreme Court of Canada hears appeal on Yukon First Nation’s residency requirement

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear appeals on Tuesday, centered on a Yukon First Nation’s requirement that elected officials live on settlement land, and whether that requirement infringes the Charter rights of citizens living elsewhere. The case could be precedent-setting for self-governing First Nations across the country, as the nation’s highest court considers the intersection of Canadian and Indigenous law when it comes to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Indigenous self-government. The court granted Vuntut Gwitchin citizen Cindy Dickson’s appeal application, as well as her First Nation’s conditional application for cross-appeal, last spring. Dickson began her legal…
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Trinidadian Attorney Neil Byam dies after collapsing before Court of Appeal

Trinidad’s former deputy chief state solicitor general, Neil Byam, collapsed and died on Friday while addressing the Court of Appeal. “We can confirm that there was a medical incident involving an attorney in court today,” the Judiciary said. Byam, said to be in his 60s, was before Court of Appeal judges Allan Mendonca, Prakash Moosai and Gillian Lucky, shortly before 11am (local time) when he collapsed and had to be assisted by Senior Counsel Douglas Mendes who helped lower him to the floor where attempts were made unsuccessfully to resuscitate him. – Advertisements – Former attorney general, Faris Al-Rawi, speaking…
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NY Appellate Court Prohibits Local Development Agency from Condemning Property for Hospital Parking Lot

This post was authored by Amy Lavine, Esq. A New York appellate court held in December that the Oneida County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) had no authority to condemn property for a hospital parking lot. The court explained in a rather cursory opinion that under the IDA’s enabling legislation, its “statutory purposes” —and thus its use of eminent domain—were restricted to the development of “commercial facilities.” The court noted that “healthcare-related facilities” weren’t included in any of the IDA’s statutory purposes and then concluded that the proposed condemnation would not be for a “commercial purpose” because the property wasn’t being…
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Osgoode Hall trees’ fate set to be determined

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice is set to determine if the historic trees at Osgoode Hall in Toronto will live beyond this week. The court granted the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) an interim injunction on Sunday that prevented Metrolinx from chopping down the mature trees for Ontario Line subway station construction. But on Friday, the interim injunction will expire at midnight, unless the order is extended. A virtual hearing is taking place on Thursday afternoon in the hope of extending the current temporary pause on tree removal until the Toronto City Council can consider an Ontario Heritage Act…
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This advocate and law student is making space for the voices of marginalized Quebecers

CBC Quebec is highlighting people from the province’s Black communities who are giving back, inspiring others and helping to shape our future. These are the 2023 Black Changemakers.Idil Issa fights for the causes that she believes in and works to help others get their voices heard, too. The McGill University law student has spent more than five years lobbying for human rights in Quebec, particularly voicing her opposition to restrictions on the wearing of religious symbols. Issa, who grew up in Winnipeg and Toronto, first came to Montreal for university. After doing international communications work for a decade, she…
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Trump Attorney Gives Bizarre Explanation For Classified Folder At Mar-A-Lago

An attorney for Donald Trump said the latest classified folder turned over to investigators was just that ― a folder, and a folder alone ― which the former president used to block a light that was bothering him at night. Timothy Parlatore downplayed the folder on CNN as “one of the more humorous aspects of this whole thing” and claimed it “means nothing” because it was empty. He said the folder marked “Classified Evening Summary” was found in Trump’s bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has…
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