Each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about.

For this past month, the three most-consulted English-language decisions were:

1. Sullivan v. Culic et al, 2026 ONSC 23

AI came up with this blog title – pretty great, right? It’s descriptive with just a hint of my cheeky writing-style. I tweaked it so it sounded more like my ‘voice’, but I like the blog title. I used a SMART prompt to come up with it – while it is highly probable that my AI prompt took longer to draft than simply coming up with my own title, we’ll just ignore that possibility for now. I use AI in my practice, and it is likely that most of you do as well.

I use AI to assist with social . . . [more]

Imagine that you are a provincial Attorney General. The Cabinet, for whatever reason, has lost confidence in the provincial law society. The Premier asks you for options to decrease its effective authority in the self-regulation of the legal profession. She dares you to think big but also challenges you find a subtle way to achieve this goal.

Your first – and admittedly unimaginative – instinct is to change the composition of the governing board of the law society. You consider abolishing the law society entirely and replacing it with a new body in which elected lawyers will not form the . . . [more]

Given the high value placed on research excellence by legal professionals and consultants, I am surprised that stories continue to be reported about the lack of rigour exercised in the creation of work product by these professional groups. In addition to the ongoing stories of professional sanctions placed on lawyers for including incorrect citations and other issues associated with the use of generative AI, there have been regular stories about the high values for government report contracts and the use of AI to create them. Here are some articles on a report prepared by Deloitte for the Province of Newfoundland . . . [more]

Every week we present the summary of a decision handed down by a Québec court provided to us by SOQUIJ and considered to be of interest to our readers throughout Canada. SOQUIJ is attached to the Québec Department of Justice and collects, analyzes, enriches, and disseminates legal information in Québec.

PÉNAL (DROIT) : Dans une affaire de traite de personnes, l’accusé, qui a exercé des pressions sur sa partenaire afin de l’inciter à se prostituer et qui a ainsi pu bénéficier d’importants bénéfices, est condamné à 5 ans de détention; une ordonnance de dédommagement est rendue et une amende compensatoire . . . [more]