Legal Focus LLP

We are pleased to announce that Jessica Habib has joined the team at Legal Focus LLP. Jessica's areas of practice include: Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Complex Contractual Disputes, Product Liability, Fraud and Misrepresentation, Privacy, and Risk Management. Jessica has particular experience with complex commercial contracts, consumer protection and product liability matters, data privacy and incident response, fraud and misrepresentation claims, construction litigation, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, and matters relating to the preservation and production of information. Welcome Jessica!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A belated congratulations to our Legal Focus runners of the Detroit Marathon and Half Marathon!

Legal Focus is growing! As of October 01, 2024, COUREY LAW PROF. CORP. and LISA GRANT LAW FIRM have merged with LEGAL FOCUS. The office at 18 Queen St. S., P.O Box 178, Tilbury ON N0P 2L0, 519.682.1644 remains open, with Paul Courey practising there, together with lawyers from Legal Focus.

As a matter of interest to all, the Court of Appeal has ruled that it is unconstitutional for Canadian Border Services to search cell phones (as they are currently allowed to do). The effect of the decision takes effect next February.

Here's a snippet from an article that can be found on the Toronto Star page.
"The law allowing Canadian border officers to search people’s personal devices is unconstitutional, Ontario’s top court has ruled, giving Parliament six months to come up with new legislation.

The Ontario Court of Appeal said in a 114-page decision released Friday that there’s a need for a higher threshold justifying a search of travellers’ phones, tablets and laptops, after concluding the current law violates the right to be free from unreasonable searches guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“Because the border is not a Charter-free zone, it is also not an almost-anything-goes zone for highly intrusive searches like digital device examinations,” wrote Chief Justice Michael Tulloch on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel that included Justices Jonathon George and Patrick Monahan. "...