In Nova Scotia, automobile insurance is mandatory. There are some types of compensation that you will be entitled to receive through your own insurance company. If you are not at fault for the accident, you are entitled to compensation from the other driver, which is...

Parent company’s profits from insurance industry could skew reports, PUB told Questions about the independence of the consultant hired by the Public Utilities Board (PUB) to assess the auto insurance industry in the province became a little too intense Friday for PUB...

Samantha Monaghan to battle Nova Scotia government in court after it said she had unreported income.The Nova Scotia mother of a terminally ill boy is taking her fight with the Department of Community Services to court after the government kicked her off social...

Lynn Matheson claims she developed a mental illness due to a 'toxic' work environmentA Halifax Regional Municipality employee who claimed she was bullied into depression at work, is taking the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission to court after it dismissed her case.In...

CNIB, the national registered charity for the visually impaired, is again facing a legal fight with a former lottery kiosk operator who says he's been wrongly terminated and accused of mismanaging funds.Mike Perry is one of at least seven former kiosk operators to be...

People involved in certain civil lawsuits in New Brunswick could be ordered to pay the jury costs in trials under changes proposed by Attorney General Serge Rousselle.Under the proposed change, legal actions for libel, slander, malicious arrest, malicious prosecution...

Allegations against police force include negligence, extortion, perjury and false imprisonment.Former Fredericton police officer Jeff Smiley and his common-law wife Kim Burnett have made a series of allegations against Fredericton police and the RCMP in a civil suit...

Rehtaeh Parsons’ death in 2013 shocked people across the country, most particularly in Nova Scotia where after being sexually assaulted and belittled on the web, the 17-year-old attempted suicide in the bathroom of her family home and later died.Within weeks and...

On October 24, 2015, our firm team, Olivia's Divas, participated in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada's annual Light the Night Walk.We are proud to say that we raised a total of $12,151.00 to help find a cure!

A Canadian lawyer has launched a constitutional challenge of an anti-online harassment law, arguing its definition of "cyberbullying" is too expansive and infringes on free expression. The case of two feuding businessmen, one alleging the other "cyber-bullied" him, is...

An anti-cyberbullying law drafted in response to the Rehtaeh Parsons case was defended Thursday as necessary to fill in significant gaps in the criminal law. Nova Scotia’s Cyber-safety Act is the subject of a Charter challenge by Halifax lawyer David Fraser as part of...

'They are very, very happy with the outcome,' says lawyer.The Canadian National Institute for the Blind has withdrawn its claim against another former lottery kiosk operator it was accusing of missing thousands of dollars.The national charity has reached a...

Phillips's lawyer says police should have let the public know the risk was low before ordering evacuation.Key evidence has been released in the case of a Halifax man accused of stockpiling dangerous chemicals.An exhibit obtained by The Canadian Press contains an...

CBC News has obtained the document at the centre of the case against Christopher Phillips, the Nova Scotia man arrested at an Ottawa hotel earlier this year: an email he sent to a friend describing how he could use a highly toxic chemical.It was the email, forwarded...