Faculty of Law News Archive

November 21, 2025 — 
A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than 1.2 million Canadian dollars he had stored in bizarre locations around his home. Dr. Michelle Gallant, Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba, said in this case, the onus is on Breton to prove the money was obtained legally, noting “cash is the currency of illegal drugs.”

November 20, 2025 — 
CBC News asked Yvan Guy Larocque, Clinical Counsel at Robson Hall at the University of Manitoba, with expertise in Indigenous governance and economic development, to review the Meadows purchase and development agreement. He said it is odd to see a band adviser so financially involved with their client.

November 14, 2025 — 
On November 7, 2024, law students from the Faculty of Law’s L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic, Travis Dech (3L) [BA/23], Sparsh Kohli (3L) [BSc./22 U Western Ontario], and Gilad Stitz (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/23], hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship entitled Startup Law 2.0: Law for Entrepreneurs.

November 14, 2025 — 
On November 5, 2025, the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic collaborated with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship to bring a Legal *Pop-Up* Clinic to the Asper School of Business, to deliver legal education directly to student entrepreneurs on campus, as part of a joint kick-off UM Entrepreneurship and Innovative Thinking Month.

November 7, 2025 — 
Dr. Michelle Gallant, Professor of law in the University of Manitoba said the word ‘wealth’ can mean anything, and the onus is on the respondent to provide proof.

November 7, 2025 — 
A lawyer in Saskatchewan is speaking out after she was told she couldn't wear a poppy in court. CBC's Faith Fundal heard reaction to the news from Yvan Guy Larocque, Clinical Counsel at Robson Hall, who oversees the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts. 

November 4, 2025 — 
A University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law professor is bringing a host of top international legal scholars to Winnipeg on November 14 for the inaugural Insights ’25 Canadian Forum for Business and Human Rights conference.

November 3, 2025 — 
Jayden Kyryluk [BA/22] is a third-year law student working as a Research Assistant for the Desautels Business Law Accelerator at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Law. He is currently spending this term on an exchange program, studying international law at Radbound University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. On the same day that his classmates in Winnipeg were meeting with Supreme Court of Canada Judge Sheilah Martin, Kyryluck was shaking hands with Judge Kimberly Prost in The Hague.

November 3, 2025 — 
The province doesn’t have the authority to use the notwithstanding clause in a situation such as the Supreme Court striking down mandatory minimum sentences, said Brandon Trask, Associate Law Professor, University of Manitoba

October 31, 2025 — 
Dr. Allison Fenske, Director of the University of Manitoba Community Law Centre, speaks with host Marcy Markusa about the conditions and realities of pre-trial custody and how proposed bail reforms could impact education, housing, and employment for the accused.