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This decision reinforces the courts' attitude towards a solicitor's failure to keep records of advice and instructions.

In two decisions released on November 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) affirmed the fundamental importance of litigation privilege and solicitor-client privilege.

The University of Calgary has succeded in establishing that the Alberta FOIPPA does not require a public body to produce to the Privacy Commissioner documents over which solicitor-client privilege is claimed...

In Sakab Saudi Holding Company v. Al Jabri, 2026 ONCA 586 (“Sakab”), the Ontario Court of Appeal clarified the law in ruling that the crime-fraud exception to solicitor-client privilege may apply in civil cases, although the exception will be narrowly construed.

The recent decision of the Divisional Court in Industrial Alliance Securities Inc. v. Kunicyn has clarified the test for the very narrow future crimes/fraud exception to solicitor-client privilege.

An insurer which offered to settle directly with personal injury claimants who had filed notices of their claims on the Road Traffic Accidents Portal must compensate the claimants' solicitors, ...

In Taylor Walton v Laing (2007), covered in the Footnotes section of the last Lawyers' Liability briefing, the Court of Appeal struck out a solicitors' negligence claim on the grounds of abuse of process. The Court reached its conclusion on the basis that the negligence proceedings would be re-litigating the same issue considered by the court in the underlying dispute, and that all the arguments made by the claimant (including allegations of negligence

This article addresses the legal methods and means of valuation of personal injury claims with a view to informing you about the legal processes involved and the processes involved.

The equitable lien is the traditional means by which equity provides a form of security for the recovery by solicitors of their agreed charges for the successful conduct of litigation...

It is trite law that where there is a legal wrong there must be a remedy as aptly captured in the latin maxim ubi jus, ibi remedium.

The Solicitor General's answer was pragmatic and unequivocal. Economic crime can only, he opined, be properly tackled by a coordinated response from...

The Canada Border Services Agency ("CBSA") has an internal policy with respect to examinations and searches of lawyers who are crossing the border into Canada.

In this decision, the Court of Appeal affirmed that a cause of action for solicitor’s negligence is assignable.

I have seen a perfect cottage for sale by 'modern method of auction'. I've not heard of this before. Can you explain?

A decision in the high court last week in the matter of Mortgage Express vs Sawali means that anyone signing a mortgage form or offer may have signed away their rights to legal professional privilege - the privilege whereby a solicitor is able to withhold disclosure of certain documents relevant to a dispute - with regards to their mortgage transaction even if the mortgage offer was signed before the solicitor was instructed.

On June 8, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") released amendments to Rule 206(4)-5 (the "Pay to Play Rule") under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act"), which extends the date on which covered advisers must comply with the ban on payment to certain third party solicitors.

Today, President Joe Biden announced that he intended to nominate Andrew N. Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC is made up of five Commissioners, and only three...