Supreme Court of Canada rules to bolster rights of inmates in provincial jails
The judgement, which considered question of how inmates are disciplined, is a rare reversal from the Court on established law ...
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Supreme Court of Canada schedules hearings for insurance, civil, criminal cases
This coming week, hearings set before the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, and Federal Court included ...
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Canada Supreme Court raises standard of proof required in inmate disciplinary proceedings
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decided on Friday that the standard of proof required in major disciplinary offence proceedings for inmates would be raised from a 'balance of probabilities' to ...
Canada court approves $23 billion settlement to end Big Tobacco lawsuits
A Canadian court approved a plan to settle long-running tobacco lawsuits in the country as part of which the units of three ...
Canada Court Approves CA$32.5B Settlement in Decades-Long Big Tobacco Litigation
The settlement, which ends an almost 30-year-long legal battle, involved some of the country’s biggest law firms and is the ...