• The Government publishes legislation to make changes to the UK’s merger control regime• The Government publishes legislation to regulate significant digital market undertakings• The BVCA publishes a report on the contribution of UK private equity and venture capital• The Financial Reporting Group publishes terms of reference for the Pre-emption Group• Draft legislation is published to give Companies House the power to issue fines for failing to comply with the Register of Overseas Entities
Government publishes draft changes to UK merger control regime
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill have been introduced into Parliament.
Among other things, the Bill…
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In a long-awaited ruling released on Tuesday, Superior Court Justice Jaye Hooper was granted the application to declare Steve Maynard (pictured above) vexatious, which was filed by Mississippi Mills solicitors in 2021. Photo by Steve Maynard /SUPPLIED
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Former Mississippi Mills mayoral candidate Steve Maynard has been declared a vexatious litigant after a judge effectively tossed his numerous cases and appeals from court and ordered that Maynard seek a judge’s permission before filing any further lawsuits against the township.…
This week was the first full week of floor work for the Oklahoma legislature. While it is technically a three-week period from the start of floor work to the March 23rd deadline for bills to be passed off the floor of their origin, next week is expected to be a light week with only two days of legislative work. This week and the deadline week are the only full weeks for the House and Senate to consider bill measures.
The Senate moved several bills this week, while the house saw a bit of a slow down due to some internal…
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…
TORONTO –
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…
Andrew Green finds reasons for hope when it comes to addressing climate change.
In his recent book Picking Up the Slack: Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate PolicyGreen, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, explores how the law and legal institutions are shaping our current response to climate change.
The book delves into the complexity of the issue in the Canadian context. For example, Green examines the difficulties caused by the discretion embedded in our environmental laws by the diffusion of responsibility for climate law and policy, as well as the deference of courts and the public…
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…