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. Wise Law Blog 2. Rule of Law 3. Michael Geist 4. Entertainment & Media Law Signal 5. Environmental Law and Litigation

Wise Law Blog
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday July19
· Texan Claims Bar Exam Is Unconstitutional — Which Kind Of Proves Why We Need Bar Exams · Changes to Condo Act will offer greater protection for residents, Liberals say · Magnotta video arrest: What does a ‘corrupting morals’ charge mean? · As Goes Access to Law School, So Goes Access to Justice – Part II . . .

Rule of Law
Court of Appeal Varies Trial Decision in Chinn v. Hanrieder
The Court of Appeal, in reasons for judgment released on June 27, 2013, in Chinn v. Hanrieder, 2013 BCCA 310 (CanLII), reversed the trial judge’s holding that Ingrid Hanrieder held her interest in a family trust that held mineral rights on a secret trust for her late husband’s two children, Bette Chinn and Dennis Hanrieder. But the Court of Appeal upheld the trial judge’s decision that Ms. Hanrieder was contractually bound to give them interest in the trust. I will repeat the facts as I set them out in my previous post on the trial decision.

Michael Geist
Telus Attacks: The Battle To Keep Verizon Out of Canada
Telus has responded to my post on the 2013 OECD Communications Outlook, which ranked Canada among the most expensive countries in the OECD for wireless services in virtually every category, with its own post claiming that Canadians should be celebrating our relatively high prices. The post notes the investment that Telus and other companies have made in Canada (Peter Nowak explains the reason behind much of that investment) and argues that: “When you consider our enormous investment, challenging geography, sparse population and outstanding networks Canada really SHOULD be the most expensive country . . . ”

Entertainment & Media Law Signal
Understanding the Legal and Regulatory Considerations of Concerns of Creating Branded Content in Canada
This video entitled “Hello Madison and Vine, It’s Me, Bay Street: Understanding the Legal and Regulatory Considerations of Concerns of Creating Branded Content in Canada“ aired at the Canadian Marketing Association’s Content Marketing Show on June 25th, 2013 and features Sara Perry, an associate in Heenan Blaikie’s Advertising and Entertainment Law Groups, highlighting some of the key legal and regulatory issues associated with developing branded content . . .

Environmental Law and Litigation
Obama’s climate announcement: worth reading
For those, like myself, who had not yet had time to read President Obama’s program for tackling climate change, I think it is well worth reading. Ambitious, but practical. Important, but achievable. We really could do something worthwhile about this worldwide scourge…. “a plan to cut carbon pollution; a plan to protect our country from the impacts of climate change; and a plan to lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate. . . . ”
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