In late April, two groundbreaking decisions concerning legal regulators in Canada were announced — one by a court, and one by a law society.

The first decision came from the British Columbia Supreme Court, which ruled that the provincial government’s proposed overhaul of legal regulation in BC was constitutional and could proceed. I thought this was the obvious outcome from the outset, as I wrote here at Slaw two years ago, and I’m very glad to see the issue resolved — for the moment, anyway.

At the heart of BC’s legislative overhaul (and the lawsuit that challenged its . . . [more]

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. Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16

[140] Intimate partner violence is more than the sum of its parts; it may involve physical violence, emotional abuse, or other methods of coercive control, but what the totality of that conduct produces takes a different meaning and quality in the context of an intimate partnership. . . . [more]

In my last column, I wrote about the hidden economics of law firm student recruitment and the substantial investment firms make in attracting and hiring students. The conclusion was relatively straightforward. Most firms devote enormous attention to recruitment, but the return on that investment is largely determined after students arrive.

That return is shaped through hundreds of small interactions that rarely receive much scrutiny. How work is delegated. How instructions are delivered. How drafts are reviewed. How students learn what is expected of them.

In most firms, these processes are informal and highly variable. That is understandable. Lawyers are . . . [more]

On 6 May 2026, Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) announced that it had eliminated 91 positions, including 45 layoffs, in response to a $15 million deficit. The deficit followed a $9.4 million reduction to NSCC’s operating grant by the Province of Nova Scotia earlier in the year and reduced international tuition revenue, due to previous federal and provincial caps on international students. The cuts included student advisers and other professional support workers, but a whopping 25% of those cuts were librarians. All campus librarians were eliminated. NSCC’s campus librarians partner with faculty to facilitate critical information and digital . . . [more]

Canadian securities law has long resisted narrow or technical definitions of the term “security.” Instead, both legislatures and courts have embraced an intentionally expansive and purposive conception, one designed to capture a wide range of investment arrangements rather than a closed set of financial instruments. The oft‑invoked proposition that “a security is what the law says it is” reflects not interpretive casualness, but a deliberate regulatory strategy. Overbreadth in the statutory definition of “security” is not an accident of drafting; it is a conscious design choice that enables securities regulation to respond to evolving forms of capital formation and investment. . . . [more]

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. Meurrens on Immigration 2. Legal Post Blog 3. Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada 4. Family LLB 5. Canadian Securities Law

Meurrens on Immigration
Duress and Inadmissibility to Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada has “clarified” the elements of the duress defence. The defence is important . . . [more]