Family law in Canada: What happens when a sponsorship relationship breaks down?
Family law problems in the immigration law context usually occur because a relationship or marriage breaks down after the spouse or partner has been sponsored to come to Canada. When this happens, there may be concerns about maintaining immigration status, sponsorship undertakings and spousal financial support.
Sponsor your family for Canadian immigration
The sponsor and the sponsored person must be in a relationship under one of three categories:
- Spouse: the sponsor and the sponsored person are married.
- common
Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorney complains about the media again
Attorney Stephen Owens, left, and his client Gwyneth Paltrow, in a Park City, Utah, courtroom on March 29, 2023. (Law&Crime Network)
Gwyneth Paltrow’s lead attorney raised concerns about yet another camera focused on his award-winning client on Wednesday afternoon in the Utah courtroom where she is standing trial on a negligence claim over a 2016 ski crash with a retired eye doctor.
Time was of the essence late in the day as each side tried to argue to Judge Kent Holmberg why they should be entitled to more time to plead their case in front of the Park City judges.
Why a Trump lawyer was ordered to turn over evidence in the docs case
Attorney-client privilege is an important legal principle, which is protected in nearly all instances, but it is not absolute. As the criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s classified documents scandal advances, the former president and his team are discovering that those limits can be highly problematic. The New York Times reported overnight:
A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a lawyer representing former President Donald J. Trump in the investigation into his handling of classified material had to answer a grand jury’s questions and give prosecutors documents related to his legal work. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals
Donald Trump still faces multiple other legal worries. Here are all of them – National
The hush money case in New York that has led to criminal charges against Donald Trump is just one of a number of investigations that could pose legal problems for the former president.
Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for Trump, confirmed Thursday that he had been informed that the former president had been indicted on charges involving payments made during the 2016 campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The specific charges were not immediately made public.
Trump faces a string of other inquiries as he campaigns for another term in 2024, including a criminal investigation over top secret
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Google warned that the datasets of scraped pictures used to train AI’s usually included pornography, mirrored social stereotypes, and contained “derogatory, or otherwise dangerous, associations to marginalized identification teams”. And Ms Selhi mentioned proposed adjustments to UK legislation would as a substitute make it easier for AI corporations to legally scrape artists’ work from the web – one thing which DACS opposes. “There are not any safeguards for artists [..] to have the ability to determine works in databases which would possibly be being used and decide out” she provides. Even where that is potential – not many artists will …
Continue ReadingTrade Secrets Litigation: 2023 Update
Thomson Reuters Practical Law has released the 2023 update to “Trade Secrets Litigation,” co-authored by our colleague Peter A. Steinmeyer.
Following is an excerpt (see below to download the full article in PDF format):
Trade secrets are often an employer’s most valuable assets. When an employee or former employee misappropriates an employer’s trade secrets, the employer frequently initiates litigation with several goals in mind, including:
- Preventing further unauthorized use or disclosure of its trade secrets.
- Recovering the trade secrets.
- Obtaining damages.
This Practice Note discusses trade secrets litigation. In particular, it addresses:
- Preliminary steps to consider, such as sending a
5 things to consider when buying a business
The main thing a business lawyer does when you are purchasing a business is to help you determine whether or not the business is actually worth purchasing. The commercial decision to buy a business is a complex one and a business lawyer can help make the purchase process easy. This is done by providing clear advice as to what you are purchasing and most importantly on the terms of the agreement. Whether it is a small business or larger entity the key elements remain the same.
Some business buyers are making quick decisions when you find a good business you’re
The opposition cries foul after the minister’s in-law appointed interim ethics commissioner
The appointment of an interim ethics commissioner who is also the sister-in-law of a cabinet minister has opposition parties crying foul.
It was announced earlier this week that Martine Richard had been appointed to the role for a period of six months after the previous commissioner, Mario Dion, retired last month.
Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who himself has violated ethics rules in the past.
The news outraged opposition parties, particularly the Conservatives. Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett first raised the issue during the question period on Wednesday.
“How can Canadians have confidence in