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…
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…
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 25, 2023 /Tsodilo Resources Limited (“Tsodilo” or the “Company”) (TSX- V:TSD)(OTCQB:TSDRF)(FSE:TZO) wishes to provide a corporate update with respect to its legal action Botswana Ministry of Minerals & Energy (MME ).
Oral Argument was held in the High Court in Maun, Botswana on April 18, 2023, with respect to the Ministry of Minerals and Energy’s (MME) decision to not renew Prospecting License PL020/2018 held by the Company’s Botswana subsidiary, Gcwihaba Resources (Pty ) Limited.
The litigation landing page has been updated with the parties’ documents filed with the court. The judge has indicated that…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed new legislation to overhaul the country’s conscription system, which will make it harder for Russians to avoid being called up for military service, and keep at least some of those who already fled the country away longer.
Putin signed the bill, which was hastily passed by Russia’s upper and lower houses of parliament this week, into law on Friday.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its 14th month, the move will create a system where conscription and draft notices will be delivered electronically through a widely used government services portal instead of being hand-delivered.…
Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, April 3, 2023 6:18PM EDT
Last Updated Monday, April 3, 2023 9:24PM EDT
TORONTO – Ontario has not yet put a four-year-old policing law overhaul into effect, which includes allowing officers to be suspended without paying more often, but the solicitor general said Monday he’s directing it to be done “as soon as possible.”
Michael Kerzner was asked Monday in question period about the law that has been sitting on the books since 2019 in light of news reports about an Ontario Provincial Police…
Donald Trump’s defense lawyers blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case on Tuesday, saying it lacks the kind of convincing detail he’ll need for a slam-dunk prosecution against the first-ever former president to face criminal prosecution.
A number of legal experts and former prosecutors, however, said Bragg was smart to leave out critical details of his case in order to gain competitive advantage over Trump’s aggressive team of lawyers and political influencers.
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Covering up “crimes relating to the 2016 election”
The indictment handed up…
OTTAWA –
A judge’s erroneous direction that Canadian officials should secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria amounts to a “wholesale expansion” of the law, a federal lawyer told an appeal hearing Monday.
Lawyer Anne Turley said the decision created a new right to be returned to Canada, or even be rescued by Ottawa, when a citizen finds himself in trouble abroad, despite no involvement of Canada in the foreign detention.
Turley made the argument while asking a Federal Court of Appeal panel to overturn a January ruling by Federal Court Justice Henry Brown.
The Court…