The Canadian Centre for International Justice is hosting a conference next month focusing on international criminal law in Ottawa and Toronto, with further locations at a future date.
The website… [more]
archive for May, 2010
Conference on Criminal and Civil Liability for War Crimes, Genocide and Torture
by Omar Ha-Redeye
May 27th, 2010
The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is holding a one-day conference tomorrow, May 28, on "The Google Book Search Project and… [more]
The Supreme Court of Canada released R. v. S.G.T. … [more]today, a criminal law case where the accused in a sexual assault of a minor had sent an e-mail to the
Many of you will likely have picked up the news yesterday of the cross-Atlantic merger between Sonnenschein and UK-based Denton Wilde Sapte. One element of the media push I found… [more]
Its online. Its free. Its Canadian. With so many good points in its favour without even talking about it, why am I posting? One of the things we try to… [more]
In outsourcing agreements, customers usually request the so-called most favoured customer (MFC) clause from their service providers. The MFC clause is a promise from the service provider to treat the… [more]
by Simon Chester
May 26th, 2010
Today's a day that Phil Anisman must have wondered whether he would see. Back in 1979, he published Proposals for a securities market law for Canada.
A national Securities … [more]
On Tuesday, May 25, the Minister of Industry introduced in Parliament Bill C29, also known as an Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act… [more].
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At the end of September, four members of the Ontario Government Libraries Council (OGLC) presented a workshop at Showcase Ontario, the Ontario government's enormous technology and information conference. The session… [more]
The Lawyers' Insurance Association of Nova Scotia (LIANS) has begun publishing a bimonthly electronic newsletter, LIANSwers. The May edition is available in PDF. The publication will include:
substantive issues as… [more]
I have had calls from lawyers in the midst of handling apparent fraud attempts who were wanting to verify whether the lawyers named as the drafter of the collaborative family… [more]
The Canadian government introduced two important new bills yesterday. Bill C-29 amends PIPEDA – I’ll leave commentary on that to David Fraser.
Bill C-28 is the “Fighting Internet and Wireless… [more]
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Available online today are four new chapters of the publication Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report, which explores the socio-demographic and economic circumstances of Canadian women in general.
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The bill amends the Constitution Act, 1867 by readjusting the number of members and the representation of the provinces in the House of Commons.
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Ars Technica: Law & Disorder: Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubatorBlueseed plans to buy a ship and turn it into a floating incubator anchored in international waters off the coast of California.
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Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the flow of information out of Ottawa has slowed to a trickle.
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John J.L. Hunter, Q.C. of Vancouver has been elected President for 2011-2012
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