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The Canada Revenue Agency has launched a new program aimed at targeting international tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance by Canadian citizens. The Offshore Tax Informant Program (“OTIP”) is a hotline that will allow persons to provide information related to major international tax non-compliance to the CRA. If the tip leads to the collection of taxes owing, the informant will receive a reward of 5 – 15% of the tax collected.

The Firm is pleased to announce that Cheryl D’Sa will be speaking at a CIRA Medical Services Seminar entitled “Chronic Pain: A Multidisciplinary Approach”. Ms. D’Sa is the only Plaintiff Personal Injury Lawyer invited to speak at the event and will be offering insight on recent British Columbia Supreme Court cases involving psychological aspects of chronic pain.

Every major white-collar prosecution involves parallel civil, administrative and criminal proceedings. Clients facing parallel proceedings are in a difficult position because an effective defence in one proceeding may compromise their position in others. The risk is heightened where the target individual or company has not been notified, formally or informally, that a criminal investigation is taking place. These are difficult and complex problems that require the assistance of counsel who is capable of navigating through the labyrinth of issues that arise in these types of cases. Although every case is different, our Firm has identified the range of concerns and considerations when representing clients subject to possible white-collar parallel proceedings.

We are pleased to announce that Angie Murray has joined the Firm.

We are proud to congratulate the participants of the 2013 Peter Burns Trial Competition at the University British Columbia, Faculty of Law. The competition provides a select set of law  students with a unique opportunity to take part in a complex trial before a panel of Provincial Court Judges.

Narwal Litigation is pleased to announce that, Vancouver Personal Injury Lawyer, Cheryl D’Sa, has been appointed to the Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia Branch) Scholarship Task Force, whose mandate is to review entrance scholarship commitments at three of British Columbia’s law Schools – the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, and Thompson Rivers University – and explore options for generating funds to meet existing and future commitments. Ms. D’Sa is honored to accept the appointment as she believes that “increasing the availability of scholarship funding to both entering and current law students in B.C. would help not only to maintain the excellence of the bar in this province, but would also serve to increase the vitality and diversity of the bar and increase opportunities for aspiring lawyers.”

Vancouver Criminal Defence Lawyer, Joven Narwal, has been appointed an Adjunct Professor at the Universtiy of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, where he will teach a class entitled “White Collar Crime”.

We are pleased to announce that Cheryl D’Sa has joined the Firm to further enhance our growing civil litigation practice. She will support our existing practice areas and spearhead our growth into personal injury litigation.

Joven Narwal and Professor John Kleefeld presented their work “Plea Bargaining: Lessons Learned from Teaching Negotiation in the Criminal Justice Context” at the 6th Annual SoTL Conference for Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, held in Savannah, Georgia, from March 27 – 29, 2013.

Vancouver Criminal Defence Lawyer, Joven Narwal, has been elected to serve as a director of the Vancouver Bar Association.