Pension plans exist to ensure that people have a pool of savings available in their retirement – and some retirement funds are “locked-in” until that time. Making these funds accessible to people before they retire would undermine the policy objective.

CBA Advocacy scored a win on the subject of medical assistance in dying with the help of the Quebec Superior Court.

Money can’t solve all of the world’s problems, but stable, sustainable funding does seem to be the starting point for healing some of the wounds identified in the report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Statutory filing deadlines and limitation periods in federal legislation have become problematic in the COVID-19 era, when many lawyers don’t have access to the courts, tribunals, or parties whose input they need to carry out their duties.

A recent amendment to the Trademarks Act that lacks clear direction for its implementation has added a substantial burden to applicants in terms of the time and money they need to spend to prove that their trademark is “distinctive.”

Amendments proposed in the federal government’s medical assistance in dying legislation fall short of the goal of harmonizing and clarifying the law, the CBA says in a submission to the Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

Words matter, the CBA’s Family Law Section says in a submission to Justice Canada regarding proposed regulations and guidelines in support of the amendments to the Divorce Act which come into effect on July 1.

Bill C-5, the latest iteration of legislation proposing to mandate sexual assault training for federal judges contains important modifications from a private member’s bill with a similar purpose tabled in the last Parliament, but still contains some worrisome elements apart from its impact on the independence of the judiciary: to wit, it addresses the wrong audience.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is interpreting PIPEDA’s consent obligations and outsourcing in a way that could have “significant negative consequences for the Canadian economy,” the CBA’s Privacy and Access Law Section says.

Access-equals-delivery is an idea whose time has come, the CBA’s Business Law Section says in response to the Canadian Securities Administrators’ proposed model for prospectuses and other documents.