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Remove Williams (2017 FCA 252): the s. 13 PCMLTFA exception was repealed in 2018

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Williams interpreted the 'election not to proceed' exception in PCMLTFA
s. 13, but Parliament repealed s. 13 the year after the decision
(S.C. 2018, c. 27, s. 174). The case is no longer good law on a live
provision, and surfacing it on cross-border currency-reporting queries
risks misleading a user about what the Act now requires. A comment in
canlex/caselaw.py marks the slot so the case isn't accidentally
re-added.

24 chunks dropped (5036 -> 5012). 141-question eval after the removal:
Hit@1 0.79 / Hit@3 0.94 / Hit@5 0.98 / Hit@10 0.99 / MRR 0.87 (vs
pre-removal 0.79 / 0.96 / 0.99 / 0.99 / 0.88 -- small embedding-space
jitter on PCMLTFA s. 18 and IRPA s. 64; the trade is a small precision
dip for legal correctness, the right call).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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  1. canlex/caselaw.py +4 -4
  2. data/processed/caselaw.json +2 -2
canlex/caselaw.py CHANGED
@@ -299,10 +299,10 @@ CASES = [
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  {"court": "fca", "id": 35595, "short": "Tourki",
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  "topic": "PCMLTFA; the structure of the s. 30 appeal to the Federal "
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  "Court against the forfeiture of seized currency"},
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- {"court": "fca", "id": 304112, "short": "Williams",
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- "topic": "PCMLTFA; the s. 13 exception -- electing not to proceed with "
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- "the importation or exportation relieves the duty to report "
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- "currency"},
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  {"court": "fc", "id": 37898, "short": "Dokaj",
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  "topic": "PCMLTFA; the Federal Court's jurisdiction on a s. 30 appeal is "
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  "limited to whether the s. 12 reporting duty was contravened"},
 
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  {"court": "fca", "id": 35595, "short": "Tourki",
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  "topic": "PCMLTFA; the structure of the s. 30 appeal to the Federal "
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  "Court against the forfeiture of seized currency"},
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+ # Williams, 2017 FCA 252 (item 304112) interpreted PCMLTFA s. 13, the
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+ # 'election not to proceed' exception to the reporting duty. Parliament
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+ # repealed s. 13 in 2018 (S.C. 2018, c. 27, s. 174), so Williams is no
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+ # longer good law on a live provision and is excluded from the corpus.
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  {"court": "fc", "id": 37898, "short": "Dokaj",
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  "topic": "PCMLTFA; the Federal Court's jurisdiction on a s. 30 appeal is "
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  "limited to whether the s. 12 reporting duty was contravened"},
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