Friday, June 24, 2022 @ 4:44 PM
Before MPs fled Ottawa for the summer, the minority Liberal government managed to enact its multipronged 2022 omnibus budget bill, as well as a new Criminal Code amendment that restricts the use of the self-induced extreme intoxication defence in prosecutions for violent crimes. ... [read more]
Friday, June 24, 2022 @ 4:57 PM
The Ontario Superior Court has refused to strike out a third-party claim by a co-defendant against a London, Ont., tavern and strip club in a slip and fall case that concerned landlord liability. ... [read more]
Friday, June 24, 2022 @ 3:56 PM
In a case involving employee privacy in the workplace, Ontario’s Appeal Court has ruled it was wrong for a school principal to read and photograph private messages between teachers he found left open on a work computer. ... [read more]
Friday, June 24, 2022 @ 2:55 PM
Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic of Edmonton must pay $5.7 million after losing its appeal over a failed land-sale agreement in the Alberta Court of Appeal. ... [read more]
Thursday, June 23, 2022 @ 5:44 PM
Litigants seeking public interest standing to challenge constitutionally suspect laws do not need co‑plaintiffs directly affected by those laws in order to proceed with the litigation, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in a 9-0 judgment which sheds new light on the decade-old Downtown Eastside legal test and its evidentiary requirements for attaining public interest standing. ... [read more]
Confessions of a possible juror, part two | Joan Rataic-Lang
Quebec chief justice steps down, reflects on challenges posed by pandemic, lack of resources
