Ontario Superior Court urges deferral of proceedings due to stay-at-home order
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 @ 4:04 PM
Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice has announced that, effective immediately, it will defer as many matters as possible due to the current, provincewide stay-at-home order. The deferral decision includes virtual hearings and is intended to reduce the number of court staff, counsel or parties required to leave their homes to participate in court proceedings, the court said in an April 20 notice to the profession and public. ... [read more]
B.C. budget focuses on COVID-19, future economic growth
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 @ 3:16 PM
British Columbia has outlined its fiscal plan for the next three years, and like their federal cousins B.C. lawmakers are focusing on the short-term need to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and a long-term focus on job growth and economic recovery. ... [read more]
Ontario appellate court acquits second person wrongly convicted by Motherisk evidence
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 @ 3:09 PM
Veteran Toronto criminal defence lawyer Clayton Ruby is disappointed that the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent exoneration of a woman convicted of giving cocaine to her son nearly a quarter-century ago was “too narrow” and “uninterested” in exploring how the since-discredited and former Motherisk lab at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children was allowed to generate flawed evidence that put Joyce Hayman behind bars, and in not recommending some sanction against the lab’s founding director, Dr. Gideon Koren. ... [read more]
Toronto, Peel Region implement powers to close workplaces with COVID-19 outbreaks
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 @ 4:09 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 @ 9:22 AM
Two of Ontario’s largest public health regions are taking action to close workplaces that have had five or more COVID-19 cases in the previous 14 days, pre-empting what numerous doctors have been calling on the province to do. Toronto and Peel Region both announced April 20 that they will issue the closure orders under s. 22 of the Ontario Health Protection and Promotion Act, shutting workplaces for a minimum of 10 days. ... [read more]