Following a court battle with the City of Pembroke, one resident is joining others with “serious” concerns about Mayor Ron Gervais, suggesting the mayor worked as a lawyer on the taxpayers’ dime while serving as an elected official last year.
Some residents recently told CBC News they had concerns about perceived and possible financial conflicts of interest involving Gervais’s ties to his place of employment, Sheppard & Gervais — the firm hired by the city to carry out the city solicitor job, headed by Robert Sheppard.
The solicitor contract began in 2002 and councilors are now looking at considering that…
The Liberal government will table legislation that includes reforms to Canada’s bail laws before the House of Commons rises for the summer, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says.Asked by Mercedes Stephenson about a timeline for the proposed reforms during an interview on The West Block that aired Sunday, Mendicino said there would be an announcement “in the not-too-distant future” that would address not just good but other investments to law enforcement.
“The short answer is yes,” he said when asked directly if legislation would come before the end of the spring legislative session, which is currently scheduled to end…
Jennifer Kagan wipes away a single tear as she composes herself once again to discuss her daughter’s legacy.
Her four-year-old, Keira Kagan, was found dead next to her father’s body at the base of a cliff in a Milton, Ont., conservation area in February 2020. A provincial committee found it was “extremely consistent” with past cases of murder-suicide involving a father and a child.
Kagan, who had been in a bitter custody battle with Keira’s violent father for years, was determined to have the tragic result in changes to the way the judicial system deals with cases of intimate partner…
A health screeningUS federal health officials say two hospitals broke the law by denying an abortion to a woman experiencing a life-threatening emergency.
The hospitals, in Kansas and Missouri, are now being investigated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The investigation is the first of its kind to be launched since the Supreme Court invalidated the national right to an abortion last year.
Numerous states have issued regulations and bans on abortion since that ruling.
Following the Supreme Court ruling, the White House warned hospitals that doctors must provide abortions if the patient’s health is at…
Andrew Yat-Cheung Lau took money from clients’ trust funds before performing any legal work and failed to remit GST and PST to officials.A BC lawyer who misappropriated trust funds and failed to remit GST and PST collected from clients to fund personal financial difficulties has been disbarred by the Law Society of BC.
Andrew Yat-Cheung Lau will no longer be able to practice law in BC following a hearing panel ruling issued April 6. The panel found Lau had committed professional misconduct in relation to six allegations.
Lau collected tax payments from clients but failed to remit the funds…
If the property is in your name only, it is sometimes the belief that the other person should be the one to leave. However there are circumstances, in particular if you have children, where you may be wise to think differently.
In instances where, for example, the other parent has no means to pay rent to live elsewhere, effectively leaving them unable to put a roof over the head of their child, then a Court would look less favorable on you. This is because in family law, where children are involved, the ‘best interests of the child’ is to be…
Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found.The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or strictly restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman’s health is at risk. The competing edicts have been rolled out since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional…
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CanadaAs the culture wars seep into various institutions, law societies have hardly been immunePublished May 01, 2023 • 4 minute readToronto’s Osgoode Hall, home of the Law Society of Ontario. Photo by Stan Behal/Postmedia/FileArticle content
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