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"Why is the sun red? Wildfire smoke from a continent away spreads to New York."July 21, 2021 at 9:06 AM  Tags: New York, Law, New York City, Fire, The Sun, World Health Organization, Madison, Ontario, Manitoba, Department of Environmental Conservation, Ann Althouse 99 people like this. Like Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLIIJuly 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Law, Court, Walt Disney Company, Court of appeal, Johnson, Alberta, Ontario, Mohamed, Feeney, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Idris, Unrau, Rothmans, Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII, Ubah, Lymer 71 people like this. Like Cheesed Off Employee Loses Wrongful Dismissal AppealJuly 15, 2021 at 9:46 AM Written by Daniel Standing, LL.B., Editor, First Reference
Dismissal for cause is frequently characterized as capital punishment in the employment realm. As a drastic solution, one would presume that an employer would only terminate a worker’s employment for good reason and with a firm sense of an employee’s wrongful conduct. A recent decision of the Manitoba Court of Appeal, McCallum v Saputo, 2021 MBCA 62 (CanLII), indicates that an employer’s position is not necessarily compromised if it fail...Tags: UK, Law, Canada, Court of appeal, Employment law, Ontario, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Daniel, McCallum, Saputo, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Case Comment, Substantive Law, Breach Of Contract, Suspected Wrongdoing 2 people like this. Like Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLIIJuly 14, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, British Columbia, Ontario, Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII, Yahey, OBCA, Libfeld, Adamson Barbecue Limited, Kimmel J, Ski Bromont 114 people like this. Like Bad Faith Abounds at Landlord Tenants TribunalJuly 11, 2021 at 10:42 PM Over 6 months after many landlords in Ontario claimed that some tenants were using the pandemic as an excuse to pay rent, it’s becoming increasingly clear that many landlords themselves are using these circumstances to violate the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006.
The Landlord Tenant Board (LTB) has been described as “chaos,” as early as late 2020, and the circumstances since that time have not improved. The province’s Digital First Strategy was intended to save money and improve efficiencies, an...Tags: Landlord, Law, Toronto, Ontario, Board, Legislature, Riddell, Hamilton Spectator, Justice Issues, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Divisional Court, Huynh, LTB, Landlord Tenants Tribunal, Caryma Sa 7 people like this. Like A Very Special Clarification From Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal: Lawyers Can Advertise That They “Specialize” Without Being a “Specialist”July 6, 2021 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Law, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Legal Ethics, Ontario, Rothman, LSO, Law Society of Ontario, Appeal Panel, LSO Tribunal, Law Society Tribunal Appeal Panel, Society of Ontario, ONLSTA, Rothman 2019 ONLSTH, Rothman 2021 ONLSTA 138 people like this. Like Calculations of the Pandemic Limitations in OntarioJuly 4, 2021 at 9:14 PM When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit Ontario, the provincial government made a special order on March 20, 2020 under s. 7.1(2) of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act, creating a suspension of limitations under O. Reg. 73/20,
Limitation periods
1. Any provision of any statute, regulation, rule, by-law or order of the Government of Ontario establishing any limitation period shall be suspended, and the suspension shall be retroactive to Monday, March 16, 2020.
Period o...Tags: Law, Ontario, Federal Court, Joseph, Ontario Court of Appeal, R, Dawson, Boswell, McAuley, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Government of Ontario, Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, Canada Post Corporation, Pentney, Salvati 9 people like this. Like Return to Work: Psychological Barriers to ReorganizationJune 30, 2021 at 7:57 AM As the rate of COVID-19 vaccination increases in Ontario, many companies are asking their employees to return to the office in person. As a result, the “return to work” planning has sparked many discussions about improving the workplace. For example, “Six Steps to Make Your Legal Workplace Equitable” published in May 2021. Despite the proliferation of helpful articles on improving our workplaces, we still face barriers to adoption.
In the book The Behaviorally Informed Organization, there is an ...Tags: Law, Miscellaneous, Ontario, Kelly Peters, Risk Aversion, Knowledge Gap, Shannon O Malley, Returning To Work, Ambiguity Aversion, Group Think, Law Of The Instrument, Psychological Barriers To Reorganization, Skill Gap, Status Quo Bias 34 people like this. Like Monday’s MixJune 28, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, Canada, New York Times, Alvin, Ontario, Mike, Darlene, Adam Grant, Jason Kenney, Monday’s Mix, SoapBox, Éloïse Gratton, Alberta Legislature, Ontario Condo Law, Soapbox Kenney, Eloise Gratton Mon TEDx 73 people like this. Like A Taxonomy of Judicial Technological CompetenceJune 24, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Facebook, New York, Law, Canada, United States, Wisconsin, Legal Ethics, LexisNexis, Ontario, Bob Ambrogi, CJC, Canadian Judicial Council, Law Commission of Ontario, American Bar Association House of Delegates, Jena McGill, National Centre for State Courts 136 people like this. Like Determining Judicial Ethical Conduct: Not So Straightforward? Part IJune 22, 2021 at 4:15 PM INTRODUCTION
Time was the community or advocacy activity of lawyers with judicial aspirations centred around fundraising and other activities related to participation in our major political parties. Eventually, some of these lawyers found themselves rewarded with a judicial appointment. They cut their ties, as far as anyone knew, with their favoured party. It was not difficult to end their pre-judicial activity and remove themselves from community involvement. More recently, however, with the ne...Tags: Facebook, Law, Toronto, Canada, Coalition, Tetley, Ethics Committee, Black, Ontario, Parliament Hill, Board, Trudeau, Roberts, Governance Committee, Queen s University, McLeod 38 people like this. Like Monday’s MixJune 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, Canada, Ontario, Campbell, Andrew Campbell, Buller, Monday’s Mix, ODSP, COVID, Trauma Informed Lawyer, Family Health Law Blog Legal Writers Collective R, Michelle Alton June, Michelle Alton, Marion Buller 61 people like this. Like Representation Orders in Small ClaimsJune 20, 2021 at 10:35 PM In Ontario, Small Claims Court’s monetary jurisdiction increased from $25,000 to $35,000 on Jan. 1, 2020. This has allows far more claims to be heard in this venue, with its streamlined processes and less procedural delays. Even prior to the pandemic, the Small Claims Court handled more than half of all of Ontario’s civil disputes.
Wrongful dismissal claims in particular have been effectively advanced in this venue, especially during the pandemic, and for those looking to avoid the cost conseque...Tags: Law, Court of appeal, Small Claims Court, Ontario, Lawrence, Burley, Ontario Court of Appeal, RLA, Formosa, Riddell, Apple Canada Inc, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Divisional Court, Ontario Small Claims Court, Hotel Restaurant 27 people like this. Like Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLIIJune 16, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, Court, Bill, Ross, Ontario, Donovan, Oakes, R, Coates, SCC, EFA, Daigneault, Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII, SCR, Sherman Estate, Working Families Ontario 72 people like this. Like Rainbow Cupcakes at the Office for Pride: That’s So Sweet – and Sort of Strange?June 14, 2021 at 7:00 AM This submission comes from WeirFoulds LLP Law Library Manager Nairne Holtz, who is a member of the firm’s EDI (equality, diversity, inclusion) committee. When Nairne was asked to write a piece in support of legal history and Pride month in Ontario, the end product turned out to be more of a personal account. In the spirit of Canadian legal storytelling, and in support of Pride, Slaw is happy to be able to share Nairne’s story.
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I met my wife at work, a Bay Street law firm, in 1996. You ...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Miscellaneous, Toronto, Canada, Vancouver, Montreal, University of Toronto, EDI, Ontario, Billy, Bay Street, Gay Village, Practice Of Law, WeirFoulds LLP, Bruce McArthur 3 people like this. Like Notwithstanding in Ontario, Yet AgainJune 13, 2021 at 11:47 PM Nearly three years ago, I wrote here that the use of s. 33 in Ontario constituted “UnChartered waters.”
Given the successful appeal in that case, the use of the clause ultimately wasn’t necessary. However, I was fortunate to appear as an intervener before the Court to note that the potential use of the notwithstanding clause would presumably appear in circumstances that were pressing and substantial, and asked the Court to carefully scrutinize any such rationale as a result. That decision is sti...Tags: Law, Court, Vienna, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, House, States, Bill, Parliament, Quebec, Alberta, Ontario, Legislature, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Charlottetown 37 people like this. Like Standards, Rules, and Law’s Quest for CertaintyJune 11, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, Tribunal, Legal Ethics, Ontario, Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal BCCRT, John Braithwaite 54 people like this. Like Costs in International Arbitration: What’s “Reasonable?”June 9, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, Canada, British Columbia, Tribunal, Columbia, Ontario, Mohamed, Queen Mary University of London, Cairo University, Respondent, UNCITRAL, Dispute Resolution, Abdel Wahab, Kluwer Law International, Jean Engelmayer Kalicki, Mohamed Abdel Raouf 86 people like this. Like Crown Immunity Means Tough Luck for the Police: A Good Call?June 8, 2021 at 5:33 AM In Ontario (Attorney General) v. Clark (“Clark“), the majority (8 judges) of the Supreme Court of Canada held that Crown immunity precludes claims based on misfeasance in public office. Justice Côté dissented. Here I consider the policy underpinnings and ramifications of the two opinions.
Clark addressed only the question of whether the claim at issue, brought by police officers against the Crown attorneys in two cases in which the officers were involved, constituted a recognized cause of action...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Court, Toronto, Canada, United States, Court of appeal, PSU, British Columbia, Ontario, Moss, Henry, Watts, Clark, Blair, Abella 44 people like this. Like LinkedIn Is Not FacebookJune 6, 2021 at 11:00 PM You’ll see it every few weeks on LinkedIn. Somebody somewhere is complaining that LinkedIn is not Facebook. They’re usually complaining about it on LinkedIn, and the comments on these posts bear an earie resemblance to social media platforms that are not LinkedIn.
Joshua Titsworth says that despite being founded in 2002, the site has gone through significant changes since that time,
The truth about LinkedIn is that despite its intended use, it has always been a form of social media… Given th...Tags: Facebook, Microsoft, Law, Toronto, Linkedin, New York Times, Ontario, Roth, Law Society, LSO, Leach, Hamza, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Law Society of Ontario, Heeney, Rocheleau 2 people like this. Like Experienced Plaintiff Wins Wrongful Dismissal Suit to Some ExtentJune 3, 2021 at 9:36 AM Written by Daniel Standing LL.B., Editor, First Reference Inc.
Employees who are unjustly dismissed cannot simply sit back, relax and wait for their payday in court. They have a duty to mitigate their losses by taking reasonable steps to find work elsewhere. In Wilson v Pomerleau Inc., 2021 BCSC 388 (CanLII), the plaintiff learned this the hard way, seeing his damages reduced on account of his lax approach to mitigating his losses.
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Richard Wilson was an experienced estimator in Bri...Tags: Law, Employment law, Globe, British Columbia, Columbia, Ontario, Wilson, Daniel, Richard Wilson, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Case Comment, Bardal, Substantive Law, Pomerleau, Wrongful dismissal, British Columbia Employment Standards Act 35 people like this. Like How Far Can We Go Before the Constitutional Bargain Is Undermined?June 1, 2021 at 10:15 AM The Quebec Government’s An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (Bill 96), has generated considerable controversy over whether a province is able to make significant constitutional changes to its status and the use of the French and English languages unilaterally. It also raises the question of whether, if enacted and the constitution is amended, it will undermine the very architecture of the 1867 constitutional “deal” that united the original four members of confede...Tags: Google, Supreme Court, Law, Senate, Court, Canada, New Brunswick, House, House Of Commons, Cambridge, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Victoria, Bill, Parliament, Oklahoma 21 people like this. Like How Open Is an Open Court Online?May 30, 2021 at 11:57 PM In 2015, Shauna Hall-Coates wrote in the Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies,
Walk into any courtroom today, critics venture, and it will look stunningly similar to those of the past; the judge will be sitting behind the bench, the jury in its box, and the witness on the stand.1 As everyone settles into his or her place selected by centuries of ritual and status quo, the courtroom may even appear as a sanctuary from the trappings of digital technology, so doggedly pursued outside its walls.
This ...Tags: Law, Virginia, Court, Canada, New Brunswick, Bill, Parliament, Department Of Justice, Quebec, Alberta, Sierra Club, Hills, Ontario, Wilson, National Assembly, Mills 32 people like this. Like The Employer Post-Dismissal Release Repudiated ContractMay 27, 2021 at 9:08 AM Written by Lewis Waring, Paralegal, Student-at-Law, Editor, First Reference Inc.
In Peretta v Rand v Technology Corporation (“Perretta”), an employer repudiated an employment contract by insisting that a new term be added after the contract had already come into effect. The reason that the employer’s insistence on adding a new term resulted in the repudiation of the contract was that the new term was so important that the employer’s attempt to force the employee to agree to it showed an intenti...Tags: Law, Employment law, Small Claims Court, Rand, Ontario, Perretta, Substantive Law: Judicial Decisions, Substantive Law: Legislation, Case Comment, Substantive Law, Employment Contract, Common law reasonable notice, Termination Notice, Ontario Employment Standards Act 2000, Lewis Waring, Full and final release 27 people like this. Like Forum Non Conveniens OnlineMay 23, 2021 at 10:21 PM Like it or hate it, virtual hearings are with us in some part indefinitely. With virtual witnesses, and all of the parties attending remotely, there’s certainly some savings in travel expenses.
But what about complex trials, and where trial fairness may be significantly impaired through an online format alone? Can a forum non conveniens argument be raised in this context?
A party who is outside of Ontario can move under R 17.02 Rules of Civil Procedure staying the proceeding, including if the co...Tags: Law, Canada, Amsterdam, Ontario, Morgan, Van, Brown, Lloyd, Supreme Court of Canada, Cote, Uber Technologies Inc, Ontario Court of Appeal, Wellman, SCC, Heller, American Arbitration Association 44 people like this. Like Benchmarking the Ontario Court SystemMay 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM Systems and entities can be evaluated by measuring inputs against outputs, and then benchmarked against peers to rank relative performance. This simplistic measurement tool may not indicate optimal performance (as a whole sector could be functioning poorly) but it can be helpful generally to identify the best and worst performing entities within a given peer group. It can likewise prove useful to identify areas in need of improvement, and when tracked over time, can identify trends in performanc...Tags: Florida, New York, Law, Wikipedia, US, Toronto, Tesla, Fiat, Judiciary, Jordan, New York State, Ottawa, Ontario, Louis, Magna Carta, LSO 14 people like this. Like Solving the Associate Retention Challenge With Developmental NetworksMay 18, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Google, Law, AMP, Ontario, Mentor, Host, Higgins, Hsu, Jordan Furlong, Practice Of Law, Kram, Jean Wallace, Law Fiona Kay, Key University of California Davis, Greta Hsu, CBA Young Lawyers Section CBA 66 people like this. Like Monday’s MixMay 17, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, Canada, United Nations, Ontario, Supreme Court of Canada, Bashir, the Globe, Myrna, Monday’s Mix, Canadian Bar Association, SOQUIJ, Thibault, Vaillant, Court Of Appeal For Ontario, UNDRIP, Myrna McCallum 148 people like this. Like The Impact of COVID-19 on Legal Services in OntarioMay 7, 2021 at 12:38 PM Can you spare 10 minutes to help researchers understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to legal services and its effects on the legal profession in Ontario?
A team at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Ryerson University is studying how the pandemic has affected legal clinics, law associations, law firms (lawyers, practitioners, paralegals, etc.), and other legal entities.
The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to legal services and...Tags: Law, Announcements, Ontario, Ryerson University, Practice Of Law, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Avner Levin, Asher Alkoby 25 people like this. Like Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Automated Decision-MakingMay 7, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Law, Eu, Canada, Commission, European Commission, Legal Technology, Ontario, Adm, Law Commission, LSO, Law Commission of Ontario, LCO, Teresa Scassa, Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, Ontario Public Service 76 people like this. Like |
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