current legal issues in the news 2022

Maintaining the Canadian legal system is obstructing justice for Indigenous peoples

22/02/2025despair

This Opinion piece is by André Bear, a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan’s law school who is now pursuing his master of laws.

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The Canadian legal system seems eager to fill its prisons mostly with Indigenous peoples, as evidenced by our staggering overrepresentation.

On the other end, there are countless legal professionals making a good living off our overrepresentation: lawyers, judges, prison officials and anyone else who profits.

Although Indigenous peoples desperately need allies in the legal profession, at some point we should also recognize how the

Aluminum Is Now A Hot Topic In Supply Chain And Trade

29/12/2024despair

Last Friday, February 24, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the United States. You can read the full proclamation here.

The Proclamation states that, beginning on March 10, 2023, a 200% ad valorem tariff will be imposed on all aluminum articles and derivative aluminum articles produced in Russia. Additionally, on April 10, 2023, a 200% ad valorem tariff will be imposed on aluminum articles where any amount of primary aluminum or derivative aluminum articles used in the manufacture of the articles was smelted or cast in Russia.

The purpose of the Biden Administration’s

Witness list includes lawyers, bankers, accountants

23/12/2024despair

The trial of Alex Murdaugh began Monday, Jan. 23 and we have the latest from the Colleton County Courthouse.

Murdaugh will face his first charges in a long list of criminal and civil allegations in the deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, on June 7, 2021. These two deaths were the catalyst to the ruins of the Murdaugh dynasty and the unfolding of a much larger story.

The Greenville News will be in the courtroom to give you the latest updates starting with jury selection until a final verdict is reached.

Watch the Alex Murdaught trial live:Murdaugh

Witness list includes lawyers, bankers, accountants

22/12/2024despair

The trial of Alex Murdaugh began Monday, Jan. 23 and we have the latest from the Colleton County Courthouse.

The Greenville News will be in the courtroom to give you the latest updates starting with jury selection until a final verdict is reached.

Watch the Alex Murdaught trial live:Murdaugh

What three luxury homes reveal about who owns UK property

18/09/2024despair

Stylised graphic showing Beechwood House, Lubov Chernukhin and Alisher Usmanov

Owners of around 50,000 UK properties held by foreign companies remain hidden from public view, despite new transparency laws.

The Register of Overseas Entities, launched in August 2022, was meant to reveal who ultimately owns UK property.

But analysis by BBC News and Transparency International found that almost half of the firms required to declare who was behind them failed to do so.

Labor MP Margaret Hodge said the legislation was not “fit for purpose”.

A UK government spokesperson said the register has been an “invaluable source of information for

DHS Released a Notice on the Addition of Entities to the UFLPA Entity List

05/09/2024despair

On August 4, 2022, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the Chair of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), formally published the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List. The Entity list is a consolidated register of the four lists required to be developed and maintained pursuant to Section 2(d)(2)(B) of the UFLPA. DHS also released details on seeking changes to the UFLPA Entity List, including requests for removal from the list.

For our previous blog entries on the UFLPA and its implementation, see posts here, here, here, here, here and here.

UFLPA requires the Commissioner

Managing financial and other risks as a Contractor

26/08/2024despair

Whether you are a new contractor or have been working in the industry for some time, it is important to keep yourself informed, up to date and prepared for the various issues and risks faced in the construction industry.

As many are well aware, the long term affected of the pandemic and subsequent inflation over the costs of materials and supplies. In such an environment, it has become far riskier to conduct business in circumstances where companies are often set up with little to no assets to their name. Meaning that if something goes wrong, the ability to recover any