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Uniform Law Conference of Canada
In August, 2008 and 2009, I was the Ontario Bar Association delegate to the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. The photo is from 2009 in Ottawa, in front of the Supreme Court of Canada. Click here for...
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Civil Justice Reform Project
I had the privilege of working with Peter Henderson and other OBA members on our Ontario Civil Justice Reform Project Working Group. Our recommendations have helped shape reforms to civil justice in...
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OBA’s ALERT Charity provides public with Access to Justice Videos
ALERT is the Ontario Bar Association’s charity devoted to public legal education. It has developed an impressive bank of videos aimed mainly at the public, to describe the role of lawyers and the...
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Rethinking Lord Denning, M.R. – A newcomer’s perspective
Lord Denning’s decision in the “cricket balls” case of Miller v. Jackson, [1977] Q.B. 966 (C.A.), is required reading for every first year law student. Read it again, now that you’re called to the...
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Inside the life of a reserved summary judgment
Some welcome editorial comments this week from Justice D. M. Brown, of the Superior Court of Ontario, in Western Larch Limited v. Di Poce Management Limited, 2012 ONSC 7014. Starting at para. 269 of...
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Is belief in law logical?
Many years ago, I agreed to act for an elder of the Celestial Church of Christ, a religious order based in Nigeria. A member of his congregation had asked him to be a “character reference” on a bank...
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Pleading the Blues in Franglais, before Ontario Courts
It took a week, but the court finally accepted their own prescribed form. Last week, I launched a motion on behalf of a francophone client. The bilingual registrar at the court house refused to accept...
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Drama and Irony in a Canadian Courtroom?
With the nation riveted to news reports from a fraud, breach of trust and bribery trial in an Ottawa courtroom, Canada reaches a milestone in its legal history. Behold, Canadians as mass spectators of...
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In search of an evidence-based test for judicial bias
The Canadian principle of judicial bias has remained static for the four decades since the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Committee for Justice v. The National Energy Board. The Supreme Court’s...
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Click on the link to read my article, “Medical Malpractice in Crisis” (February, 1999), 21 The Advocates’ Quarterly 163 21AdvocQ163. Should doctors receive unlimited publicly-funded legal aid defence...
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