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. Vincent Gautrais  2. Slater Vecchio Connected 3. Legal Post  4. Blogue du CRL  5. Western Canada Business Litigation Blog

Vincent Gautrais
Le consommateur numérique: une protection à la hauteur de la confiance?

Le présent ouvrage rassemble les textes des conférences prononcées lors du colloque intitulé « Le consommateur numérique : une protection à la hauteur de la confiance ? » tenu à Montréal, le 12 novembre 2015. On y trouve les textes des auteurs suivants …

Slater Vecchio Connected
Distracted Driving Deaths Increase

Compared to decades ago, our roads and highways are safer. We’ve added more safety features to our cars, build them to be more crash-proof, and have safer infrastructure. The majority of people are wearing their seatbelts and the message about not drinking and driving has been gaining traction. …

Legal Post
‘Prairie attitude’ is key force behind creation of Western Canada’s largest regional law firm

Bigger does not always mean national. Aikins MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP, a firm with deep roots in Manitoba, is about to tie the knot with Saskatchewan-based MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP to create Western Canada’s largest regional law firm. …

Blogue du CRL
Droit de la famille : contestation de la filiation de la part du père biologique

Dans la décision Droit de la famille — 162757, 2016 QCCS 5517, la Cour supérieure est saisie d’une demande de contestation de la filiation d’un homme à l’égard d’un enfant de la part du père biologique. …

Western Canada Business Litigation Blog
SCC Rules Debtors Impliedly Consented to Disclosure of Mortgage Discharge Statement

On November 17, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada (the “SCC”) released its decision in Royal Bank of Canada v. Trang, 2016 SCC 50. This case involved the proper interpretation of certain disclosure exceptions in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, c.5 (“PIPEDA”). …
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