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 seventy 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. The Factum  2. BC Injury Law and ICBC Claims Blog 3. Library Boy  4. Global Workplace Insider  5. Environmental Law & Litigation

The Factum
Legal Aid BC wins communications awards

LSS publications were big winners in this year’s Communicator Awards! One of the largest international awards to cover excellence in communications, the Communicator Awards honour “materials that transcend innovation and craft — work that made a lasting impact, providing an equal chance of winning to all entrants regardless of company or agency size and project budget.” …

BC Injury Law and ICBC Claims Blog
Disputed Injury Diagnosis – Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other…

Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, making the common sense finding that the debate over diagnosis is not nearly as important in a personal injury lawsuit as whether symptoms are tied to the indicent in question. In today’s case (Tan v. Mintzler) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2012 collision and experienced chronic cognitive symptoms. …

Library Boy
CanLII Turns 15

CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute, turned 15 over the weekend. The service was launched by the Federation of Law Societies as means of making legal information freely available via the Internet. It has grown into an indispensable legal research tool: “CanLII started 15 years ago as a small website with current case law and legislation, and today it is one of the biggest players in the Canadian legal information landscape and an indispensable resource to lawyers and notaries. …

Global Workplace Insider
DOL issues sex discrimination final rule

On June 14, 2016, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a Final Rule to revise its sex discrimination policies, updating its guidelines to provide additional guidance on what constitutes discrimination based on sex. The updated guidelines define “sex” to include gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, and sex stereotyping. …

Environmental Law & Litigation
Point-of-sale notice programme coming for Toronto dry cleaners?

The Board of Health of the City of Toronto has recently moved on recommendations from Toronto Public Health to look into ways to increase regulation of dry cleaning operations in the city. The increased restrictions were in response to lobbying efforts from a number of environmental organizations. Perchloroethylene (also known as PERC or Tetrachloroethylene) has been identified by the City’s ChemTRAC programme as one of the highest concern substances for public health in the City. …
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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.