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 more than 80 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. Civil Resolution Tribunal blog 2. SOQUIJ | Le Blogue 3. BC Provincial Court eNews 4. First Reference 5. Le Blogue du CRL

Civil Resolution Tribunal blog
Implementation Update: Intimate Images Protection Claims – August 2023

The Intimate Images Protection Act (IIPA), passed in March 2023, gives the Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) jurisdiction to resolve claims about non-consensual sharing of intimate images. Under IIPA, the CRT can issue protection orders that require an intimate image be deleted, de-indexed, and/or removed from a website or social media platform. If a person or internet platform doesn’t comply with a protection order, the CRT can order an administrative penalty. Administrative penalties are payable to government. The CRT can also award damages of up to $5,000. …

SOQUIJ | Le Blogue
L’annulation d’un contrat en cas d’exploitation ou de disproportion entre les obligations des parties: quelques exemples jurisprudentiels

En vertu de l’article 8 de la Loi sur la protection du consommateur, un consommateur peut demander l’annulation d’un contrat si le prix payé est disproportionné au point de constituer de l’exploitation ou si son obligation est excessive, abusive ou exorbitante. Voici des décisions récentes ayant appliqué cette disposition pour donner gain de cause à un consommateur. Dans I.B. c. Boutin Quadriporteur, un homme sous tutelle à sa personne et à ses biens avait payé 8 015 $ pour faire l’achat d’un quadriporteur. …

BC Provincial Court eNews
Restorative justice is alive and well in Haida Gwaii

Haida Gwaii means “Islands of the People” in the Haida language. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northwest coast of British Columbia, it is an isolated group of over 150 islands. Unique and stunningly beautiful, the islands are sometimes called “the Galápagos of the North.” To provide court services to the 5000 inhabitants of Haida Gwaii, a Provincial Court judge spends a week there ten times a year, holding court in two villages on Graham Island: Daajing Giids on the south coast and Masset on the north. …

First Reference
Copyright does not protect content produced by Generative AI (GenAI): Thaler v Perlmutter

It has ben a fundamental tenet of copyright law that for a work to be subject to copyright protection it must be the result of human authorship. The bar for protection is low and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In Canada, for example, skill and judgement is required. In the United States a minimal level of creativity is required. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (aka generative AI or GenAI) questions have emerged as to whether content generated entirely using GenAI can be protected as work under copyright legislation. …

Le Blogue du CRL
L’attribution de compétences entre la Cour supérieure et les tribunaux administratifs spécialisés

L’arrêt 955 René-Lévesque Est c. Jetté, 2023 QCCA 918 porte sur un litige entre une propriétaire et des locataires fondé, entre autres, sur une clause contenue dans un acte de vente plutôt que dans un bail. Appelée à trancher sur qui, entre la Cour supérieure et le Tribunal administratif du logement (« TAL »), a compétence sur le litige, …

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