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Jan 17, 2025 | 
slaw.ca | Michael Litchfield |John Willinsky |Allison Wolf |Frédéric Pelletier
One of the earliest projects that was launched at the University of Victoria’s AI Risk and Regulation Lab was a mapping initiative that tracked both how artificial intelligence (AI) is regulated and litigated. To date, litigation tracking has primarily been focused on cases arising from the United States and internationally as until November 2024, there was virtually no domestic litigation to discuss.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
slaw.ca | John Willinsky |Allison Wolf |Frédéric Pelletier |Ian MacKenzie
Regular readers of this column (thank you) will recognize copyright reform is a common interest of mine, especially as such reform might lead to greater public access to research. Still, I only took up the copyright torch after a very loose consensus – among researchers, publishers, librarians and funders – around open access’ scientific value began to emerge. Such consensus has been called the iron law of copyright reform.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Allison Wolf
Imagine being offered a career-defining opportunity—one that could catapult your skills and confidence to the next level. Now, imagine turning it down, not because you lack potential, but because you fear falling short. This scenario is more common than you think, and the difference between seizing such opportunities and walking away often comes down to mindset.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
slaw.ca | Allison Wolf |Frédéric Pelletier |Ian MacKenzie |Melanie Neufeld
Imagine being offered a career-defining opportunity—one that could catapult your skills and confidence to the next level. Now, imagine turning it down, not because you lack potential, but because you fear falling short. This scenario is more common than you think, and the difference between seizing such opportunities and walking away often comes down to mindset.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Amy Salyzyn |Alan Macek |Allison Wolf |John Willinsky
At the LSBC’s AGM tomorrow, several member resolutions will be up for a vote. Among them is a controversial resolution (Resolution 3) submitted by two BC lawyers that calls for changes to certain language in the LSBC’s Indigenous Intercultural Course. The language at issue references an unmarked burial site at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Alan Macek |Allison Wolf |John Willinsky |Michael Litchfield
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Legal Post Blog 2. Borderlines Podcast 3. The Court 4. PierreRoy & Associés 5.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Alan Macek |Allison Wolf |John Willinsky |Michael Litchfield
Patents have a reputation of being difficult to read and understand and a key part of most patent litigation proceedings is ‘construing’ or providing meaning to the claims of the patent. A recent decision of the Federal Court considered a series of claims which it determined were not possible to be understood – the claims were ambiguous. As a result, the claims were declared invalid. Declaring claims invalid for being ambiguous is rarely done in Canada.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Allison Wolf |John Willinsky |Michael Litchfield |Drew Ann Wake
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site’s contact form. Against the Odds: The Indigenous Rights Cases of Thomas R.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Allison Wolf |John Willinsky |Michael Litchfield |Judith Gaskell
There’s a lot of talk, grumbling, and bemused head-scratching in law firms these days among partners of a certain age who lament the younger generation of lawyers who are so good at saying no and preserving their nights and weekends for pursuits other than legal work. What is certain is that the commanding leadership style of previous generations – I will tell you to jump, and you ask how high – are not getting the results they used to.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Kerri Salata |Catherine Morris |Allison Wolf
Whether a restrictive covenant, like a non-compete clause, is enforceable depends on the context. In Dr. C. Sims Dentistry Professional Corporation v. Cooke, 2024 ONCA 388, Justice van Rensburg of the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the trial judge’s decision to enforce the restrictive covenants placed on a dentist after he sold his practice. In her reasons, Justice van Rensburg notes that courts will give more scrutiny to the reasonableness of a restrictive covenant in the employment context.
