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. Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog 2. Legal Post Blog 3. The Court 4. Canadian Class Actions Monitor 5. Rule of Law

Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog
Study – Brain Damage in Strikers vs Grapplers

A recent study conducted neuropsychological testing on a group of strikers and grapplers. Unsurprisingly the strikers had worse outcomes than the grapplers. The strikers “scored significantly lower in processing speed and verbal learning and memory“. The strikers were broken down into two groups. Professional fighters (boxing, kickboxing or MMA) and amateur athletes in the same disciplines. Interestingly “no significant cognitive differences were found between professional and amateur impact sport athletes”. The researchers note that it is important for strikers, both amateur and professional, of finding was of “reducing head impact exposure during training“ …

Legal Post Blog
The most important corporate metric for CEOs does not appear on any financial statement

The Court
“Um You Should Know What That Means”: R v Fox and Solicitor-Client Privilege

Law students typically learn about solicitor-client privilege as centred around the client. Even if a client tells their lawyer that they, for example, obstructed evidence, their communication is “privileged,” and its production for use as evidence in court cannot be compelled. This privilege, so I was taught, ensures that clients can be frank with their lawyer; with the benefit of full disclosure from their client, lawyers can make the best case for their client. The facts in R v Fox, 2026 SCC 4 [Fox] turn this paradigm on its head: what if privilege is claimed not to protect the client, but the lawyer? …

Canadian Class Actions Monitor
Crestpoint and Minto Group complete C$2.3B take-private acquisition of Minto apartment REIT

On August 7, 2026, Crestpoint Real Estate Investments Limited Partnership (“Crestpoint”) completed the C$2.3 billion take-private acquisition of Minto Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust (the “REIT”) in partnership with Minto Group (“Minto”). Pursuant to the transaction, an affiliate of Crestpoint acquired all of the issued and outstanding trust units of the REIT, other than units held directly or indirectly by Minto and certain senior officers, for C$18.00 per unit in cash. The transaction was completed by way of a statutory plan of arrangement. …

Rule of Law
Henriksen Estate

The Wills, Estates and Succession Act allows the court to give effect to a document or other record as a will even though the will does not comply with the formal signing and witnessing requirements for making a valid will in British Columbia. Section 58 has been used to non-compliant documents if the court finds that the document is authentic and represents a deliberate or fixed final intention of a deceased person. But what if the document is created after the death of that person? …

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