Brandon Courneyea, the defendant, admitted to interfering with a flight attendant last month. His actions opened him up to a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 USD fine.

Yesterday's blog outlined the incident that occurred on June 13, 2015, when Mitchell Irwin sped through an intersection, hit a cyclist and left the scene. The cyclist later passed away due to major head trauma.

The percentage rises to 96% in the United States, which is one of the leading enforcers of foreign bribery offences.

On December 1, 2015, the Ontario government unanimously enacted the Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 (the Act).

In addition, the judge reminded the jury that the police conducted a canine search to validate Fallows' third person story, however they were unsuccessful.

On December 2, 2014, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") released its ground-breaking Foreign Bribery Report.

The slayer rule (or criminal forfeiture rule) is a long-standing legal principle in Canada rooted in public policy to prevent someone who unlawfully kills another person from benefiting from their acts.

Last week the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the implementation of a pilot program under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Early Wednesday morning at about 4 a.m. the Toronto Police received a call that someone had spotted a woman climbing up a crane in downtown Toronto, on Wellesley Street between Church and Yonge streets.

On March 2, 2018 we discussed a judgment rendered by the Court of Québec which found construction contractor Sylvain Fournier guilty of manslaughter ...

In this case, the British Columbia Supreme Court declined jurisdiction in a proceeding in which the plaintiffs sought to hold a parent company responsible for the actions of its subsidiary.

As previously announced in our Cassels Comments (see our articles from March 29, 2023; January 17, 2024; and August 1, 2024), effective January 1, 2025...

In Ontario, limitation periods are governed by the Limitations Act, 2002 ("Limitations Act"). A limitation period is the window of time that a party has to commence an action against another party.

The CRA can examine and make copies of items seized by the RCMP pursuant to search warrants issued during a criminal investigation without having to wait for a determination of whether the warrants were valid.

The Canadian government has recently introduced Bill S-14, entitled the Fighting Foreign Corruption Act, in an effort to revamp the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

In which part of the world is the risk of anti-corruption enforcement the highest? Law360 reported last week that, according to a report by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Asia appears to be the focus of United States ("US") regulators’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act crackdown.

The Securities Act (Ontario) is expected to be amended to include a prohibition on recommending the purchase or sale of securities of an issuer where the person or company making the recommendation is in a "special relationship" with the issuer.

We've all been told at some point in our lives that shooting a laser into a helicopter's cockpit will blind the pilot, and we've also been told that if we do so, we can be arrested and charged.

Final regulations (Regulatory Amendments) were published on March 26, 2025, amending certain regulations...

The first decade of Dianne Saxe’s professional life was devoted to energy/transportation policy and regulation, not litigation.