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. Precedent: The New Rules of Law and Style 2. First Reference 3. The Court 4. Lash Condo Law 5. Know How
Precedent: The New Rules of Law and Style
Treat your top lawyers like royalty
When law firms take on a new crop of associates, the cost is enormous: handsome salaries, countless hours in training, a promise to pay out regular bonuses. Law firms happily commit to those investments, in order to land and nurture top talent. And yet: once associates start to tiptoe toward partnership, at around the five-year mark, most firms will watch on—and do nothing—as the vast majority of those lawyers leave. …
First Reference
Ontario court clarifies the law on privilege over internal corporate investigations, and special committee reports
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently released a decision that will be welcomed by companies seeking to maintain privilege over the results of internal investigations.The decision in Vecchio Longo Consulting Services Inc. v. Aphria Inc., 2023 ONSC 6336 distills and clarifies the law in Ontario on privilege over internal corporate investigations in general, and provides much called for certainty, given the prior lack of law in respect of Special Committee reports in particular. …
The Court
The Clashing of Wage Restraint Legislation with s. 2(d) Collective Bargaining Rights
In Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2024 ONCA 101 [OECTA], the majority of the Ontario Court of Appeal (“ONCA” or the “Court”) upheld the Superior Court finding that Ontario’s Bill 124 (“the Bill” or “the Act”), which places–a cap on wages in the public sector–is unconstitutional in its application to unionized workers. A rigorous dissent from Hourigan J.A. emphasized the democratic importance of legislative deference and highlighted the confusion in the existing jurisprudence on collective bargaining rights. Ontario will not be appealing the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”). …
Lash Condo Law
Maintenance and Repair Responsibilities Table
Does your corporation have a maintenance and repair responsibilities table? A maintenance and repair responsibilities table is a document which sets out what owners are responsible to maintain and repair after damage and what the Corporation is responsible for. Section 43 of the Condominium Act, 1998 provides a list of the documentation that is required to be turned over to the Corporation by the Declarant (the developer). One of those items is this maintenance and repair table. …
Know How
An update on Family Legal Services Providers (FLSP)
As outlined in a previous blog post, the Law Society of Ontario’s Convocation had approved a report proposing a Family Legal Services Provider (FLSP) Licence for paralegals. More information about this program can be found on the Law Society’s new dedicated FLSP page, in the paralegal section of LSO.ca. In October 2023, Fanshawe College was selected to collaborate with the LSO on the design and development of the competency-based training program for paralegals. Fanshawe will be delivering the program– registration will open on August 19th, 2024, for the winter program starting in January 2025. The program will be delivered online, in full-time and part-time formats, and offered in English and French. …
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