DotMusic, the company that started selling .music domains seven months ago, has had a relatively successful launch, but one in four domains sold have not yet gone live. The latest registry transaction reports show that there were just over 30,000 registered .music domains at the end of January. Registry CEO Constantine Roussos tells us it’s…
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A testamentary spousal trust can be a powerful tool to support a surviving spouse while achieving tax deferral and preserving assets for the next generation. From a legal drafting or estate administration standpoint, it’s important to understand what the Income Tax Act (Canada) (“ITA“) requires for a trust to qualify as a testamentary spousal trust,…
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As part of a broader campaign targeting knife crime the Home Office has published its consultation response on a new procedure for authorised police officers to issue takedown notices to online platforms (also now to include search engines). These would require 48-hour removal of specified illegal weapons content items, on pain of civil penalty sanctions….
By: Lindsay Charles, Partner and Cassandra De Marco, Articling Student The Rules of Civil Procedure are the foundation of Ontario’s civil justice system. Rule 7.08 governs the need for approval of settlements involving parties under disability. Rule 49 deals with offers to settle, specifically how they are made, withdrawn, accepted, and the potential costs…
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In MacDonald v. MacDonald 2025 ABKB 72 Justice Lema considered several important issues that often present themselves in family law cases. The first question posed was whether post-separation Mr. MacDonald was obliged to pay child and spousal support during the three-year period his salary, dividends, and share sale proceeds were deposited into the parties’ joint…
Introduction The European Union and the United Kingdom are currently engaged in a ‘reset’ of relations. An international summit between the parties will take place in London on 19 May 2025. The driving forces have been geopolitical, as Russian aggression in Ukraine has incentivised bilateral security cooperation. Reset, however, also has a significant legal dimension….
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a series of federal lawsuits against four states—New York, Vermont, Michigan and Hawaii—alleging that recent legislative and enforcement efforts to hold fossil fuel companies financially responsible for climate change unlawfully interfere with federal authority. The lawsuits, filed on April 30 and May 1, challenge two distinct forms…
AS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE RURAL VOICE: In the real estate world, a Right of First Refusal (“ROFR”) creates an opportunity for the holder of the right to match an offer made to purchase a property – it’s a “sort of” option to purchase that will arise in the future under certain circumstances. In the…
