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Kelowna lawyer under investigation for allegedly coaching client under oath

The Law Society of B.C. is investigating Mark Koochin from Porter Ramsay for allegations of coaching, counselling

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A B.C. man has been sentenced to 6.5 years in a jail after an investigation into sexual exploitation that began more than three years ago. (Credit: Pixabay)

B.C. man sentenced to 6.5 years over sexual exploitation, child porn charges

New Westminster man pled guilty to sexual exploitation, making child pornography in October

A B.C. man has been sentenced to 6.5 years in a jail after an investigation into sexual exploitation that began more than three years ago. (Credit: Pixabay)
Edmonton Law Courts are shown in Edmonton on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. An Alberta judge has dismissed an Edmonton law student’s challenge to the legal profession’s mandatory Oath of Allegiance to the monarch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Alberta court rejects law student’s challenge to Oath of Allegiance to monarchy

Wirring, who is an Amritkhari Sikh, said he is only allowed to pledge allegiance to a divine being in the Sikh tradition

Edmonton Law Courts are shown in Edmonton on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. An Alberta judge has dismissed an Edmonton law student’s challenge to the legal profession’s mandatory Oath of Allegiance to the monarch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Victoria catering company Toque was closed earlier this year. (Pexels photo illustration)

Island chef who shuttered catering giant sued for ‘cold’ wedding food

B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal rejects case, leaves door open to it being refiled

Victoria catering company Toque was closed earlier this year. (Pexels photo illustration)
A group of Roosevelt elk that are abundant in the Cowichan Valley, particularly near Lake Cowichan. (Cowichan Valley Citizen file photo)

Man fined $5,100 for poaching Roosevelt elk near Chemainus

Kyle Watson-Harley also received 2-year hunting ban after guilty plea in 2019 incident

A group of Roosevelt elk that are abundant in the Cowichan Valley, particularly near Lake Cowichan. (Cowichan Valley Citizen file photo)
FILE - Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, left, is driven in a police vehicle from a maximum-security prison to an airport to be extradited to the U.S., on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Court records filed Friday, Oct. 13, indicate Van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, intends to plead guilty in a federal case accusing him of trying to extort money from the missing teen’s mother. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Suspect in Holloway disappearance to appear in federal court for extortion case; plea deal possible

An attorney for the mother of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who disappeared…

FILE - Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, left, is driven in a police vehicle from a maximum-security prison to an airport to be extradited to the U.S., on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Court records filed Friday, Oct. 13, indicate Van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, intends to plead guilty in a federal case accusing him of trying to extort money from the missing teen’s mother. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)
Police officers patrol on foot along Albert Street as a protest against COVID-19 restrictions marked by gridlock and the sound of truck horns reached its 14th day, in Ottawa on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. The court is expected to hear from Ottawa locals who lived in the midst of the “Freedom Convoy” trial as part of the criminal trial of two of the protest organizers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

‘It was intolerable’: Ottawa local testifies at trial of ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers

Vivian Leir is one of 5 residents expected to testify in trial of organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber

Police officers patrol on foot along Albert Street as a protest against COVID-19 restrictions marked by gridlock and the sound of truck horns reached its 14th day, in Ottawa on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. The court is expected to hear from Ottawa locals who lived in the midst of the “Freedom Convoy” trial as part of the criminal trial of two of the protest organizers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Lawrence Jewsbury has been taken to court for work that was paid for and never completed. (Pixabay)

30 suits in 5 years, Okanagan contractor owes thousands of dollars

Lawrence Jewsbury has been sued several times

  • Oct 6, 2023
Lawrence Jewsbury has been taken to court for work that was paid for and never completed. (Pixabay)
Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King appears as a witness at the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. King has asked the court once again to move his criminal trial out of Ottawa, even though others who were charged during the demonstration have been denied similar requests.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King asks to move trial out of Ottawa

His lawyer argued King is so notorious he would not have a chance at a fair trial in the city

Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King appears as a witness at the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. King has asked the court once again to move his criminal trial out of Ottawa, even though others who were charged during the demonstration have been denied similar requests.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
A massive Vancouver housing development spearheaded by the Squamish Nation has cleared a legal hurdle after a B.C. Supreme Court judge rejected a challenge by a residents’ association over lack of consultation. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a groundbreaking ceremony with Squamish Nation councillors Wilson Williams, back centre, and Khelsilem, right, at the First Nation’s Senakw housing development site, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. court rejects challenge to Squamish Nation housing project in Vancouver

Residents’ association had been seeking to have the Senakw project’s services agreement declared unlawful

A massive Vancouver housing development spearheaded by the Squamish Nation has cleared a legal hurdle after a B.C. Supreme Court judge rejected a challenge by a residents’ association over lack of consultation. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a groundbreaking ceremony with Squamish Nation councillors Wilson Williams, back centre, and Khelsilem, right, at the First Nation’s Senakw housing development site, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Cameron Ortis, a senior intelligence official at the RCMP, walks with his lawyer Ian Carter, obscured at left, after leaving the courthouse in Ottawa after being granted bail on October 22, 2019. More than four years after Cameron Jay Ortis was charged with breaching Canada’s secrets law, the former RCMP intelligence director is about to get his day in court. Ortis was taken into custody in Ottawa on Sept. 12, 2019, an arrest that deeply shocked the national police force. As the head of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, Ortis had access to some of the country’s most closely held information. Ortis, 51, is charged with violating the Security of Information Act by allegedly revealing secrets to three individuals and trying to do so in a fourth instance, as well as breach of trust and a computer-related offence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Trial to begin for ex-RCMP intelligence director accused of disclosing secrets

Cameron Jay Ortis was taken into custody in 2019

Cameron Ortis, a senior intelligence official at the RCMP, walks with his lawyer Ian Carter, obscured at left, after leaving the courthouse in Ottawa after being granted bail on October 22, 2019. More than four years after Cameron Jay Ortis was charged with breaching Canada’s secrets law, the former RCMP intelligence director is about to get his day in court. Ortis was taken into custody in Ottawa on Sept. 12, 2019, an arrest that deeply shocked the national police force. As the head of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, Ortis had access to some of the country’s most closely held information. Ortis, 51, is charged with violating the Security of Information Act by allegedly revealing secrets to three individuals and trying to do so in a fourth instance, as well as breach of trust and a computer-related offence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Dozens of health care professionals across the country are fighting the federal government in court for legal access to psychedelics, namely psilocybin mushrooms, to start offering therapeutic treatments in their practices. Psilocybin mushrooms sit on a drying rack in the Uptown Fungus lab in Springfield, Ore., Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Craig Mitchell

Federal court ruling sets back health workers seeking psilocybin mushroom access

Health-care professionals want exemption to take magic mushrooms themselves in ‘experiential training’

Dozens of health care professionals across the country are fighting the federal government in court for legal access to psychedelics, namely psilocybin mushrooms, to start offering therapeutic treatments in their practices. Psilocybin mushrooms sit on a drying rack in the Uptown Fungus lab in Springfield, Ore., Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Craig Mitchell
Nanaimo RCMP closed a section of Hammond Bay Road in March 6, 2019, after a pedestrian was hit at the Brigantine Drive intersection. (News Bulletin file photo)

Parents in B.C. awarded damages based on Korean tradition after son’s death

17-year-old was struck and killed by vehicle at crosswalk on Vancouver Island in 2019

Nanaimo RCMP closed a section of Hammond Bay Road in March 6, 2019, after a pedestrian was hit at the Brigantine Drive intersection. (News Bulletin file photo)
A B.C. judge ruled a Vancouver woman is allowed to keep her two guinea fowl hens, saying they fall under the category of exotic bird pets in the city’s animal control bylaw. (Pixabay/mirceaadrian72)

Vancouver woman allowed to keep guinea fowls for ‘pure joy of companionship’

Court dismissed city bylaw charge, ruling birds were pets, not poultry

A B.C. judge ruled a Vancouver woman is allowed to keep her two guinea fowl hens, saying they fall under the category of exotic bird pets in the city’s animal control bylaw. (Pixabay/mirceaadrian72)
B.C. car buyers are encouraged to get a vehicle inspected by a mechanic before buying it. (Pexels photo)

Victoria woman sues teen who sold her a car that immediately fell apart

Teen said the car didn’t give him any problems

B.C. car buyers are encouraged to get a vehicle inspected by a mechanic before buying it. (Pexels photo)
As thousands of demonstrators clogged the streets around Parliament Hill in early 2022, many of them did so with a phone in their hand. A protester records a police line with their phone as police move in to clear downtown Ottawa near Parliament Hill of protesters after weeks of demonstrations on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Trial by social media: Court struggles under weight of ‘Freedom Convoy’ evidence

The 2nd week of the trial has been slow-rolled by issues related to social media evidence

As thousands of demonstrators clogged the streets around Parliament Hill in early 2022, many of them did so with a phone in their hand. A protester records a police line with their phone as police move in to clear downtown Ottawa near Parliament Hill of protesters after weeks of demonstrations on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
A man walks past the Supreme Court of Canada, Friday, June 16, 2023 in Ottawa. An Alberta woman who tried to take her fight over COVID vaccine rules to the Supreme Court has died. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Woman who tried to take COVID transplant fight to Supreme Court dies

Sheila Annette Lewis was diagnosed with a terminal disease in 2018

A man walks past the Supreme Court of Canada, Friday, June 16, 2023 in Ottawa. An Alberta woman who tried to take her fight over COVID vaccine rules to the Supreme Court has died. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The mother of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby park in 2017 says her “heart was bleeding” when her daughter went missing and was later found dead. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Accused’s lawyer suggests to dead teen’s mother they had a poor relationship

Ibrahim Ali denies murdering the girl who was found dead in Burnaby’s Central Park early in July 2017

The mother of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby park in 2017 says her “heart was bleeding” when her daughter went missing and was later found dead. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Moving is expensive and one person in Victoria fought one of the fees charged. (Pexels photo)

Victoria man wins after suing strata over ‘unreasonable’ move-in fee

Strata council couldn’t prove the fee charged was necessary

Moving is expensive and one person in Victoria fought one of the fees charged. (Pexels photo)
Six men were charged in relation to a large-scale drug lab bust in Lumby in 2018. (RCMP photo)

Large Okanagan drug lab leads to 11 years jail for 2 men

Trent Fussi and Robyn Bryson are among six people to be sentenced after the lab was busted in 2018

Six men were charged in relation to a large-scale drug lab bust in Lumby in 2018. (RCMP photo)