Table of Contents‘No win no fee’ explained: What does it actually mean?You might have heard about ‘no win, no fee’ agreements that certain law firms offer existing and prospective clients. This type of arrangement is also known as a conditional agreement and government sources often refer to it as a conditional cost agreement.
Many people find this type of offer an attractive prospect, due to the fact that upfront legal fees can be waived. However, it can prove confusing, so we thought we would explore this legal term more fully, to keep you best informed about the particulars.…
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The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring.
Ghislain Picard, a member of the Assembly of First Nations executive, said it has been fighting for improvements to First Nations policing on two fronts: securing better funding for existing services and helping to draft new legislation.
“We’ve been talking about this for years,” said Picard, one of the leads on justice and policing issues for the national advocacy organization that represents more than…
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An influx of asylum seekers into Canada via unofficial border crossings has prompted the federal government to relocate refugees from Quebec as far as the Atlantic provinces, some more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away, and hire a risk mitigation company to deal with the record surge .
The government’s latest measures underscore the human fallout of the situation at the US-Canada border. After almost 40,000 asylum seekers entered Canada from the US through irregular border crossings last year, the two countries revised their two-decade-old asylum pact last week to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
But those…
The Saskatchewan First Act was borne out of meetings and consultations, but its a lack of consultation with Indigenous communities that has the act destined for a courtroom.
On Thursday, Saskatchewan Party government members voted unanimously to pass the act, known as Bill 88.
The government has said the bill is meant to assert provincial jurisdiction and prevent federal government intrusion.
Usually, bills pass with little fanfare outside of cheers and the sound of hands slapping desks on the governing party’s side of the aisle.
That happened on Thursday, but it was the presence of a great opposition in the…
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Ray Lachapelle’s cocaine addiction was an open secret among colleagues, clients and staff. It was an addiction so severe he lost his liberty and now his license to practice law.Article content
In a Feb. 24 ruling, the Law Society of Ontario’s disciplinary tribunal revoked Lachapelle’s license, effective immediately, for conduct unbecoming — notably his role in a 2017 conspiracy to import more than a tonne of cocaine from Colombia to Canada.
The Hawkesbury-based lawyer was found guilty in a Halifax court in 2018 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
The Mounties dubbed the project “Operation Halfpenny”…