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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. Vancouver Immigration Law Blog 2. BC Injury Law Blog 3. Crossroad Family Law Blog 4. Meurrens on Immigration 5. BC Provincial Court eNews

Vancouver Immigration Law Blog
What is an AI Hype Cycle and How Is it Relevant to Canadian Immigration Law?

Recently I have been reading and learning more about AI Hype Cycles. I first learned this term from Professor Kristen Thomasen when she did a guest lecture for our Legal Methodologies graduate class and discussed it with respect to her own research on drone technology and writing/researching during hype cycles. Since then, in almost AI-related seminar I have attended the term has come up with respect to the current buzz and attention being paid to AI. For example, Timnit Gebru in her talk for the GC Data Conference which I recently attended noted that a lot of what is being repackaged as new AI today was the same work in ‘big data’ that she studied many years back. For my own research, …

BC Injury Law Blog
Help Needed After Tragic Brain Injury From BC Kickboxing Bout

This week CBC covered a sad story of a young PhD student studying at UBC who suffered a likely permanent brain injury from what was advertised as a ‘light’ and ‘controlled’ contact kickboxing bout which was hosted at Simon Fraser University. Zhenhuan Lei is likely in a permanent vegetative state. His mom, Ying Li, has been appointed his committee and commenced litigation. Our firm is representing the family in this litigation and I will not comment publicly on the case. That said I am happy the case has received media attention as Zhenhuan Lei’s medical needs are profound. …

Crossroad Family Law Blog
The Vital Role of Lawyers in Mediation: Empowering Clients to Find Effective Resolutions

Mediation stands as a testament to the evolving nature of legal conflict resolution as one of the key methods of alternative dispute resolution. It is a process that balances legal intricacies with human dynamics, offering a less adversarial path in comparison to litigation. This article dives into the mediation process, explores the mediator’s role, and underscores the expansive role of lawyers in guiding clients to successful outcomes. …

Meurrens on Immigration
The Return of Incomplete Applications

I have previously written in this blog about how Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC’) has adapted an exceptionally strict approach to returning applications for incompleteness. I have also written in Policy Options about how frustrating this approach can be, because one of its main purposes appears to be to allow politicians to boast about reduced processing times, while ignoring the fact that the experience of individuals who are actually applying is actually often longer than previously. I wrote: …

BC Provincial Court eNews
Check out the Court’s new social media accounts on LinkedIn and Instagram!

With the addition of Instagram and LinkedIn, the BC Provincial Court is now using a trio of social media accounts to communicate with the public. The Court began actively posting on Twitter in 2014. Its interactive account used a friendly, conversational tone and responded helpfully to tweeted questions and comments. In 2016, 2017 and 2019, the Court hosted three live Twitter Town Halls. During these two-hour events, the Court’s Chief Judge (accompanied by guests in the third session) discussed issues and responded to tweeted questions from followers. …

 

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