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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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1 month ago | 
slaw.ca | Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell |Alexandra Champagne
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. Civil Resolution Tribunal blog 2. Family LLB 3. Know How 4. Hull & Hull Blog 5.
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1 month ago | 
slaw.ca | Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell |Alexandra Champagne
As a supplement to our Sunday Summary each month, Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa presents Supreme One-Liners, a super-short descriptive guide to the most recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers its more comprehensive weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, summarizing all Appeals, Oral Judgments and Leaves to Appeal granted. Oral JudgmentsCriminal Law: HomicideR. v.
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1 month ago | 
slaw.ca | Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell |Alexandra Champagne
Fearmongering and fretting about impacts of the Big Four on the legal services sector are the equivalent of tilting at windmills and just as pointless. I’m tired of overheated headlines and breathless reporting. No, I’m not talking about the trials and tribulations of tariffs and trade. I’m talking about the handwringing and blathering around KPMG’s successful application to practice law in Arizona. For the love of all that’s holy, handwringers and blatherskites – knock it off.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Noel Semple
In “The Lawyer as Friend,” a famous 1976 law review article, Charles Fried proposed that a lawyer should act as a “special-purpose friend” to each of his or her clients. Within the bounds of the retainer, Fried argued, the lawyer must adopt the interests of the client as their own — just as a friend would. This analogy helps clarify why conflicts of interest are so toxic to lawyer-client relationships.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Sarah Sutherland |Ian Hu |Mark Hunter |Noel Semple
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. Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog 2. Sunday Night Administrative Review 3. Global Workplace Insider 4. Eloise Gratton 5.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Sarah Sutherland |Ian Hu |Mark Hunter |Noel Semple
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 August 21 – October 17, 2024 inclusive. AppealsBankruptcy & Insolvency: Corporate Attribution; Fraud & No Benefit ExceptionsAquino v.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Sarah Sutherland |Ian Hu |Mark Hunter |Noel Semple
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.
