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 sixty 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. Library Boy 2. BC Injury Law and ICBC Claims Blog 3. ClickLaw Blog 4. Excess Copyright 5. Legal Feeds

Library Boy
Public Service Survey Confirms Supreme Court of Canada as Best Workplace

Every three years, the Treasury Board Secretariat and Statistics Canada conduct a Public Service Employee Survey to measure employees’ opinions about their wokrplace. As reported in an article by Jake Cole in the most recent issue of The Hill Times [registration required], the Supreme Court of Canada once again stands out as the best place to work in the federal public service. …

BC Injury Law and ICBC Claims Blog
Failing to Overtake Traffic “As Quickly and as Reasonably As Possible” Found Negligent

Interesting reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, finding that it is negligent for a motorist to not drive ‘as quickly and as reasonably as possible‘ when overtaking another vehicle on a highway. …

ClickLaw Blog
New Study Supports the Wikibook Model of Public Legal Education

Wikibooks are websites built on the MediaWiki platform, an open-source application that powers websites such as Wikipedia, Scholarpedia and the notorious WikiLeaks. Wikibooks are agile and highly adaptable, and are normally used to present large amounts of text from multiple authors in a digestible, easily accessible format. …

Excess Copyright
My Unsolicited Advice to Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau & his Team on TPP, Copyright, CBC, Cabinet & Committees

I am not partisan. I was a public servant for about a dozen years. I was in the public service during the end of the Pierre Trudeau era, the Brian Mulroney era and early Jean Chrétien period. I’ve observed much since then and appeared several times at Parliamentary and Senate Committee hearings. I’ve fought and won some victories in some important cases up to and including at the Supreme Court of Canada. …

Legal Feeds
Ontario confirms it’s too late to fix errors in juror questionnaire for 2016

While the Ontario government is promising to fix errors on the juror questionnaire, the Ministry of the Attorney General has confirmed it’s too late to do it for next year. According to ministry spokesman Brendan Crawley, “the questionnaire and instruction sheet can only be changed by a formal regulation amendment. Each year, jury questionnaires are sent out starting in September as the first step in compiling the next year’s jury roll. …

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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.