Publications

Kelly Santini LLP, Northpoint Legal, Ontario, September 24, 2018 – Click here to watch the recording of the webinar. In October 2018, Canada will become only the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to legalize recreational cannabis. This follows the 2001 legalization of medical cannabis. In this webinar, Tiffany Tsang from Lindsay LLP in Vancouver looks at how legal medical cannabis has impacted personal...

Northpoint Legal, July 23, 2018 – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of the law and jurisprudence on the current and potential future guidelines for authorization of medical marijuana by medical practitioners; judicial considerations for awarding versus denying medical marijuana claims; and the factual considerations that counsel should pay attention to when seeking...

CBM LLP, Fillmore Riley LLP, McKercher LLP, Northpoint Legal, June 07, 2018 – To view the recording, please click here. Across the country, insurers and defence counsel are facing an increase in claims from self-represented litigants. These cases face a number of different hurdles and need to be handled carefully and satisfy the principles recently endorsed by the Supreme Court of Canada in Pintea v. Johns. In this...

Northpoint Legal, January 19, 2018 – Haynes v Haynes, 2017 BCCA 131 In cases such as motor vehicle accident claims, it is tempting for parties (and even courts) to infer negligence from a breach of a statutory regulation; however, we are reminded in the recent case of Haynes v. Haynes, 2017 BCCA 131 that the factual matrix and evidence of surrounding...