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1 month ago | 
slaw.ca | Erica Green |Tania Perlin |Judith Gaskell |Heather Suttie
One Sunday each month we bring you a summary from Supreme Advocacy LLP of recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers a weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, to which you may subscribe. It’s a summary of all Appeals, Oral Judgments and Leaves to Appeal granted from January 1 – March 5, 2025 inclusive. AppealAboriginal Law: Abuse of Power; Standard of Review; Duty to ConsultSaskatchewan (Environment) v.
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1 month ago | 
slaw.ca | Tania Perlin |Judith Gaskell |Heather Suttie |Noel Semple
Each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For this past month, the three most-consulted English-language decisions were:1. Baker v. Van Dolder’s Home Team Inc., 2025 ONSC 952[4] The plaintiff was terminated “without cause” on May 24, 2023.
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1 month ago | 
slaw.ca | Tania Perlin |Judith Gaskell |Heather Suttie |Noel Semple
Seeing the title of this article, you may all think that maybe I am made a mistake regarding the topic. However, please let me assure you that this is not a mistake and with your indulgence, I will explain.
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1 month ago | 
slaw.ca | Judith Gaskell |Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell
Belated Happy New Year’s wishes. Things are not looking so happy in the US government so far. Many Civil Service employees are being laid off and/or paid to retire. Information is disappearing or being rewritten on many agency webpages. I just checked out the Department of Justice website that does appear to be reporting business as usual so far. I also found an Associated Press report about why some of the agency webpages went dark in February after an executive order on January 20th.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
slaw.ca | Robert McKay |Heather Suttie |Tania Perlin |Judith Gaskell
INTRODUCTIONIn the midst of writing this post yesterday, January 6th, I thought back to that day in 2021 when Donald Trump attempted a coup in the United States to seize the presidency despite having lost the 2020 election. This year’s certification of the 2024 election involved no such threat to democracy only because Trump won the election. But it may be because I have the concept of “coup” on my mind that I am tempted to describe West Whitby Landowners Group Inc. v. Elexicon Energy Inc. (Ont.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
slaw.ca | Robert McKay |Heather Suttie |Tania Perlin |Judith Gaskell
Whether or not there is truth in the rumours that upstart, Harvey, has been keen to acquire the much-admired vLex, it was interesting to read the analysis by Isha Marathe, of Legaltech News, on the topic, as reported via legal market heroes, House of Butter. The HoB report concludes, “If Harvey wants to make true on the third item in its tech offerings—workflow automation; an AI assistant, and legal research—it’s going to have to find the data.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Judith Gaskell
I am sharing some interesting information from the Library of Congress. On November 24th they posted this blogpost about Native American languages on the general blog. “Two important collections of Native American heritage have been digitized and placed on the Library’s website, enabling readers and researchers to dig into histories that are not widely known.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Gideon Christian
In January 2022, headlines across Canadian media ignited a controversy involving Kaycee Madu, Canada’s first Black provincial justice minister. The reports centered on Madu receiving a traffic ticket from a police officer after a traffic stop and subsequently calling the police chief to discuss his concerns over the traffic stop.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Jennifer Wondracek
This submission is part of a column swap with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) bimonthly member magazine, AALL Spectrum. Published six times a year, AALL Spectrum is designed to further professional development and education within the legal information industry. Slaw and the AALL Spectrum board have agreed to hand-select several columns each year as part of this exchange. Tips for drafting effective AI prompts.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Michael Litchfield
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming nearly every sector of society, and the legal field is no exception. While AI is rapidly reshaping legal practice, legal education risks falling behind. Surveys of university graduates indicate that they feel unprepared for the workforce due to a lack of AI integration into their education. Legal regulators like the Law Society of Ontario, emphasize that lawyers must understand AI’s risks and benefits to meet professional responsibility standards.
