Monday’s Mix

Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award­-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from forty-one 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 Feeds 2. Blogue du CRL 3. The Lean Law Firm 4. National Blog 5. À bon droit

Legal Feeds
Will Ashley Madison customers launch class action over hacking incident?

While class action lawsuits have become more common following a data breach, ashleymadison.com may not see its 37 million customers racing to put their name forward as members of a class. “One of my first reactions was that Ashley Madison may be less of a class action risk than we would usually see because I’m not sure there are going to be a lot of potential representative plaintiffs who will want to come forward,” says Catherine Beagan Flood, a partner at Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP. …

Blogue du CRL
« Trucs et astuces de la magistrature » : entrevue avec l’honorable Michel A. Pinsonnault, j.c.s.

Admis au Barreau en 1975, l’honorable Michel A. Pinsonnault a amorcé sa pratique au sein du cabinet McMaster Meighen (1975-1997). Par la suite, il s’est joint successivement à Hudon Gendron Harris Thomas (1997-1998), Pinsonnault Torralbo Hudon (1998-2001) et Fasken Martineau DuMoulin (2001-2003). Pendant sa carrière, ses principaux domaines de pratique étaient le droit commercial, le droit bancaire, le droit administratif, le droit constitutionnel, ainsi que la faillite et l’insolvabilité. …

The Lean Law Firm
Diving Into Process Improvement

I’m a diver. When you dive, two things are important: planning and implementation. Getting ready for a recent dive, I spent some time thinking it through in my head as I packed my kit. Our group chatted about it as we geared up. We made sure someone on shore knew our exact location and how to contact emergency services. Then, as we all stood in the water ready to descend, we talked it through again. …

National Blog
Elder abuse or literary event? The Harper Lee revival

Once upon a time there was a writer named Harper Lee who wrote a book called To Kill a Mockingbird about a young girl’s discovery of the truth about racism in Depression-era small-town Alabama. The girl, Scout, learns this truth from her father, Atticus Finch, a just man and upstanding lawyer who in the course of the book defends a black man who has been wrongfully accused of raping a white woman. …

À bon droit
C’est sur le vendeur professionnel que repose le fardeau de prouver que la présomption d’existence du vice est repoussée

Le législateur – dans le Code civil du Québec (article 1729) – a choisi d’imposer un fardeau important au vendeur professionnel en prévoyant que l’existence du vice est présumée au moment de la vente. Il ajoute – comme le souligne la Cour supérieure dans l’affaire Lasido inc. c. Multibond inc. (2015 QCCS 3275) – que c’est le vendeur qui a le fardeau de renverser cette présomption en démontrant que la détoriation du bien est attribuable à la mauvaise utilisation du bien par l’acheteur. …

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