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. Legal Feeds 2. Lawyered Podcast 3. Legal Post Blog 4. Global Workplace Insider 5. Civil Resolution Tribunal blog

Legal Feeds
Change injunction request analysis to protect free speech rights, BCCLA tells court

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association intervened in an injunction proceeding against pro-Palestinian student protesters, telling the B.C. Supreme Court that a legal analysis typically used to assess injunction requests should be changed to better protect the students’ free speech rights.The BCCLA was one of several intervenors slated to present written arguments to the Supreme Court during the hearing Thursday and Friday. The case was launched in mid-July, when Vancouver Island University asked the court for an injunction to remove student protesters from its Nanaimo, B.C. campus. …

Lawyered Podcast
92: Professional Regulatory Law (Rebecca Durcan) – August 7, 2024

This week, we’re speaking about professional regulatory law, with lawyer and bencher, Rebecca Durcan. Topics: BC’s Bill 21 and the independence of the regulator, trauma-informed regulation; Charter values vs Charter rights; and our Ask-Me-Anything segment. This program contains 30 minutes of substantive content for the Law Society of Ontario’s CPD requirements. …

Legal Post Blog
Howard Levitt: Jordan Peterson decision leaves professionals at mercy of regulatory overlords

Jordan Peterson lost his application to the Supreme Court of Canada this week for leave to appeal against the decision of the College of Psychologists of Ontario requiring him to undergo compulsory reeducation for various views expressed on social media, all of which were unrelated to the practice of psychology. The complaints which resulted in the college’s order were made by people who had never been his patients, and indeed, who had never met him. They were also mostly American and clearly politically motivated. I was honoured to act on Dr. Peterson’s appeal, but was not involved in the original decision that led to the appeal. …

Global Workplace Insider
Upcoming Changes to WHS Incident Notification for psychosocial hazards

On 2 August 2024, Safe Work Australia announced that the Work Health and Safety (WHS) ministers had accepted recommendations to revise the incident reporting framework of the model WHS Act, including in relation to notification of psychosocial hazards and psychological harm.[1] At the time of writing, the relevant communique from the Work Health and Safety Ministers’ Meeting was not available. While the specific provisions have not been released, Safe Work Australia said that the changes are intended to provide PCBUs with more clarity and to address key gaps in notification requirements, and to ensure that “…WHS regulators have appropriate visibility of work-related psychological injuries and illnesses”. …

Civil Resolution Tribunal blog
CRT Key Statistics – July 2024

Do you like data? We do! Here’s our monthly report of key statistics. If there’s information you would like to see added to our monthly reports, please contact us. We will consider including it. “Open” includes disputes in screening, negotiation and facilitation, on hold, decision preparation, and adjudication. “Closed” includes withdrawn claims, disputes resolved by agreement, the CRT refused to issue a Dispute Notice, disputes resolved by default or final decision, and other reasons for closure. …

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