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Understanding Inland Spousal and Common-Law Partner Sponsorship

  • September 22, 2024
Published on February 10th, 2023 at 08:00am EST Family is one of the primary pillars of Canadian society. Accordingly, Canada has several family sponsorship programs that the country’s citizens and permanent residents (PR) can apply under to reunite with their loved ones. In fact, among family-class immigrants, Canada seeks to welcome some 80,000 newcomers per year under its Spouses, Partners, and Children category. One program under this category is called Inland Spousal and Common-Law Partner Sponsorship. This program is for spouses or common-law partners who are legally living together in Canada. Sponsor your family for Canadian immigration For these purposes,…
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The Battle of the Supermarkets Vol. 2 – GINgle Bells, GINgle Bells, GIN All the Way

  • September 11, 2024
It is beginning to look a lot like a legal disputes saga between supermarkets in the UK. We have recently covered an ongoing dispute between Lidl and Tesco (see here), which relates to an alleged trade mark infringement. This time, Marks & Spencer (M&S) are suing the largest Europe’s discount grocery chain Aldi for copying their registered designs of the light-up Christmas gin bottles. This is the second legal case recently brought by M&S against Aldi, with the first involving the famous Colin the Caterpillar cake, which has since been settled. Notably, the case at hand in relation to gin…
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Sri Mulyani Applauds Issue of New Financial Sector Law

  • August 12, 2024
TEMPO. CO, Jakarta – President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo enacted the Draft Bill on the Development and Strengthening of the Financial Sector (PPSK) as Law No.4/2023 (PPSK Law). Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati explained that the government and House legislators managed to reach an agreement on five major points regulated in the PPSK Law. “The first is the improvement of financial sector authorities with a main focus on institutional; independence,” minister Sri mentioned in a written statement on Friday, January 13, 2023. The second and third aspect, Sri continued, is the improvement of governance and increasing public trust, and encouraging the…
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Block on Iowa’s strict abortion law can be appealed, the state Supreme Court says

  • July 25, 2023
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Law society issues citation to another former Alberta justice minister

  • July 22, 2023
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Another former Alberta justice minister has been cited by the professional oversight body for lawyers for his conduct. In the citation posted to the Law Society of Alberta website, Kaycee Madu is alleged to have “engaged in conduct that undermined respect for the administration of justice” when he called Edmonton Police Service Chief Dale McFee over a traffic ticket on March 10, 2021. CBC News first broke the story of the phone call. Hours after news of that phone call was made public, then-premier Jason Kenney stripped Madu of his cabinet post,…
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US News & World Report indefinitely postpones law and medical school rankings amid backlash

  • April 30, 2023
Lists originally slated for release on April 18 (Reuters) – US News & World Report has delayed the release of its law school and medical school rankings for a second time, without a new publication date. In a Wednesday message posted to its website, US News said it is working to address a large volume of inquiries from schools and will publish the new law and medical rankings “when this work has been completed.” The rankings were initially slated to publish April 18, then pushed back to April 25 due to an “unprecedented” number of questions from schools. US News…
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Is the Trump Indictment a “Legal Embarrassment”?

  • April 17, 2023
Last week, Donald Trump surrendered to authorities and was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom on thirty-four felony stem charges from hush-money payments made during the 2016 Presidential campaign. (The money went to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with Trump.) In an indictment that was unsealed after the hearing, Trump is accused of falsifying business records; an accompanying statement of facts alleges that the former President “violated elections laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York.” A number of legal commentators across the political spectrum…
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Dominion’s latest brief against Fox News shows why the voting company should win

  • March 15, 2023
We’re getting closer to a potential trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, and it’s not looking good for the right-wing TV network. The latest reminder of that comes in the voting tech company’s reply brief, filed Wednesday. One of the important points it emphasizes is that “Fox does not contest the obvious falsity of the statements about Dominion that Fox published.” The brief stated: The unassailable truth is that Dominion did not rig the 2020 Presidential Election, through vote-flipping software, Venezuelan connections, kickbacks, or otherwise. These basic truths undergird the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential Election’s…