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. Family LLB 2. Blogue SOQUIJ 3. Condo Adviser 4. Know How 5. Michael Geist
Family LLB
Divorce Tips: Top 3 Things to Know About Financial Disclosure
We’ve talked before about the importance of financial disclosure in Family Law proceedings. We’ve mentioned the comment by the Supreme Court of Canada that the timely disclosure of financial information to be the “linchpin of a just and effective family law system” (Colucci v. Colucci, 2021 SCC 24, at para. 4); we’ve also noted the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling in Roberts v. Roberts, 2015 ONCA 450 where the Court called it “the most basic obligation in family law”. …
Blogue SOQUIJ
La présomption de maladie professionnelle en présence d’un diagnostic de nature psychologique
Je ne peux passer sous silence le fait que, il y a 5 ans, jour pour jour, l’état d’urgence sanitaire était déclaré au Québec en raison de la pandémie de la COVID-19. Dans un billet daté du 26 mars 2020, alors que Tribunal ne s’était pas encore prononcé sur la survenance d’une lésion professionnelle en présence d’un diagnostic d’infection à la COVID-19, je faisais le parallèle avec la jurisprudence portant sur les travailleurs qui avaient été exposés à différents virus. …
Condo Adviser
CAT orders the removal of 2 abandoned vehicles
This is a case where an owner abandoned two derelict vehicles in her common element driveway. After 2 years, the corporation brought the matter to the CAT to have them removed. Interestingly enough, this case does not appear to have been a case about parking…
Know How
New Books – Winter 2024/2025
Here’s a selection of new and noteworthy additions to our print collection acquired over the last few months: Heenan Blaikie : the making and unmaking of a great Canadian law firm / Adam Dodek. 2nd Floor, Circulating Collection; KF 345 .Z9 .A1 D63 2024. In 1973, three young lawyers established Heenan Blaikie. It would become one of Canada’s highest-profile law firms, counting former prime ministers, premiers, and Supreme Court justices in its ranks. …
The craziness of the Trump administration relationship with Canada was on full display this past week as seemingly every day involved some form of policy change on tariffs – first on, then slightly delayed for some goods, then slightly delayed for more goods and by week’s end threats of new tariffs. Given the uncertainty, I recently co-wrote an op-ed in the Globe and Mail together with Dr. Kumanan Wilson that sought to put the spotlight on another issue that could come to the fore if the economic battle moves beyond tariffs to other issues. In this case – privacy, data localization and health data. …
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