Jessica Mach

Jessica Mach is Canada Editor - Law for Canadian Lawyer, Law Times, and Lexpert. She previously covered California employment law and US labour policy for Law360, Law.com, and the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

She has won several awards for her work, including SABEW Canada's 2025 General Excellence - Reporter at a Small Publication award and a second place Los Angeles Press Club award for a series she reported on California's trial courts. You can reach her at [email protected].

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SCC: an accuser’s sexual past can be evidence in trials for human trafficking, sex services offences

Oct 16, 2026

The ruling applies to charges laid before Parliament enacted the Protecting Victims Act this summer

There’s still time to register to attend the 2026 Lexpert Rising Stars Awards

Oct 15, 2026

The Lexpert Rising Stars Awards will take place on Thursday, Nov. 12 in Toronto

Neither fear nor ‘blind optimism’: keynote at Canadian Legal Summit argues for proactive approach to AI

Oct 14, 2026

The second annual Canadian Legal Summit took place in downtown Toronto Wednesday

SCC reconciles need to address high Indigenous incarceration rates with protecting Indigenous victims

Oct 09, 2026

A split ruling on Friday introduces a three-step test for reconciling the two requirements under criminal law

Courts ‘cannot provide an unlimited audience’ to AI filings, BCCA justice warns litigants

Oct 08, 2026

In a ruling this week, BCCA Justice Susan Griffin says AI has introduced access to justice issues

Navigating the common-law property problem in family law

Oct 07, 2026

As non-married relationships increase, lawyers are advising on the varied provincial rules for property-division rights

Legal org applies for injunction to force Quebec lawmakers to pledge allegiance to the king

Oct 07, 2026

The org’s request comes after the Parti Québécois won a minority government in Quebec this week

BCCA upholds certification of class action challenging COVID-19 lockdowns in correctional facility

Oct 06, 2026

The case is one of several class actions across Canada alleging the mistreatment of inmates

McCarthy Tétrault to launch Latin American office in Santiago, Chile

Oct 05, 2026

The new office will not practise local law but aims to support clients who operate across the region

SCC fall session: high court to hear appeals on firearms, Ontario redevelopment law, inmates’ rights

Sep 29, 2026

The session will be SCC Justice Glenn Joyal’s first since he joined the high court this summer

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