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. Lash Condo Law 2. David Whelan 3. RT Blog 4. Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog 5. Canadian Privacy Law Blog

Lash Condo Law
Formatting Matters: CAT Decision Highlights Record-Keeping Standards

In Bernard v. Carleton Condominium Corporation No. 111, the unit owner, Elizabeth Bernard, requested a copy of the list of owners and mortgagees from the respondent, condo corporation, (the “Corporation”) under Section 46(1) of the Condominium Act, 1998 (the “Act”). The Corporation responded with three versions of the list, each flawed in the following ways: …

David Whelan
Reflections on Paper

I will be taking my research and writing students on a tour of the law library soon. It’ll include a walk through our collection floors and past my office, as well as other nooks and crannies. I don’t keep any diplomas on the wall which, while I’m not defensive about it, I know is not the expected behavior. I started to think about what my response would be if a student asked where they were. Credentials have been on my mind a lot lately. My article on law library hiring was just published in AALL’s Law Library Journal and I’ve already heard from a couple of readers, which has been fun. …

RT Blog
Bonjour/Hi! Les coulisses des enquêtes bilingues

Dans ce billet, nous vous présentons notre équipe actuelle d’enquêteurs bilingues, composée de Frédérick J. Doucet et de Frédérik Forget. Tous deux mènent leurs enquêtes en anglais et en français, une compétence essentielle chez Rubin Thomlinson puisque nous prenons des dossiers de partout au pays. Nous voulions donc vous donner un aperçu de ce qu’implique le fait de mener des enquêtes bilingues et de la façon dont ces deux professionnels ont développé les compétences linguistiques qui leur permettent de s’épanouir dans leur rôle. …

Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog 
Ringside Doctors Call For “curved-finger MMA glove design to reduce eye pokes”

This week the Association of Ringside Physicians had their position statement on eye injuries in combat sports published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine. The paper is titled “Eye Conditions: Position Statement of the Association of Ringside Physicians” and can be found here. Among the various recommendations was the call for MMA gloves to …

Canadian Privacy Law Blog
The words “use” and “loss” in privacy laws may not mean what you think in a cyber-security incident

I want to talk about a recent decision from the Ontario Divisional Court that affirms the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s very expansive view of what counts as a “use” or “loss” of personal information under Ontario’s privacy laws. Spoiler alert: it probably doesn’t mean what you think it means.This case came out of ransomware attacks on two organizations: the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known as SickKids, and the Halton Children’s Aid Society. …

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