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Legal changes would require explanation for questionable wealth in BC
VICTORIA — People or companies in British Columbia will need to explain how they obtained their cash, fancy homes, cars and luxury goods if there’s a suspicion they came from criminal activity.
VICTORIA — People or companies in British Columbia will need to explain how they obtained their cash, fancy homes, cars and luxury goods if there’s a suspicion they came from criminal activity.
The provincial government has tabled changes to its Civil Forfeiture Act that would allow for the creation of unexplained wealth orders to help prevent money laundering by those who hide their assets in goods or through
Top law firms invest in content marketing “which does not work”
Emails: Only some firms send regular updates
A “significant proportion” of large law firms are investing in content or ‘inbound’ marketing schemes that “simply don’t work as they should” and could even damage their reputation, a report has been found.
Researchers said a “staggering” 19% of the top 100 law firms let people sign up for legal updates – often with quite complex preference forms – only to never actually send any.
Marketing consultancy Thought Spark said it was essential for law firms to develop inbound strategies to “engage and retain potential clients”, leveraging platforms and data to build a
Journalism has Changed: A New Standards Code for Modern Journalism
Author: Dr Peter Coe
On the 16th of February Impress, the Press Recognition Panel approved regulator of the UK press, launched its new Standards Code and Guidance (the new Code and Guidance will come into force on the 1st of April 2023). As a member of the Impress Code Committee I was involved in the review process and in drafting the revised Code. In this post I explain some of the reasons behind the new Code, and some of the key changes.
Journalism has changed. One of the great things about the internet is that it has opened up journalism
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