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. Hull & Hull Blog 2. Great LEXpectations 3. Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog 4. Double Aspect 5. The Every Lawyer

Hull & Hull Blog
Knowing the Limits: Section 3 Counsel and the Lesson of Groves v. Groves

Guardianship litigation asks the court to do something profound: to decide who will make decisions for a person who may no longer be able to make them alone. In that setting, the voice of the allegedly incapable person matters a great deal, and section 3 counsel exists to ensure that voice is heard. But what happens when the person cannot actually give instructions? The decision of Justice Akbarali in Groves v. Groves, 2026 ONSC 1206, provides guidance on the limits to section 3 counsel’s advocacy. …

Great LEXpectations
Looseleaf Updates – July 29, 2026

n this release case law on variation and review of spousal support has been updated for Wilton & Semple Spousal Support Commentary, Chapter 18. Notable cases include: A review order will be set aside where such an order was not warranted on the facts, and where the terms of the order are so restrictive as to effectively foreclose the payor from applying for a variation of spousal support if he or she retired before a pre-determined age, regardless of the circumstances of retirement. See F. (L.C.) v. B. (W.P.), 2023 CarswellPEI 71, 2023 PECA 9 (P.E.I. C.A.). …

Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog
Does Canadian Labour Law Protect Concerted Activities by Employees?

David Smith called two of his colleagues at a company called Raven Clinical Research to complain to them about not being paid on time and asked them if they too had been paid late. Another employee heard about this discussion and informed the employer that Smith had been telling coworkers that he is not being paid on time. In response, the employer fired Smith for “HR related discussions with other personnel.” …

Double Aspect
How Power Corrupts VI

In years past, I had an occasional series of posts going to address the various meanings and implications of “Lord Acton’s Dictum” — power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have canvassed the insights on it we can get from The Lord of the Rings and from The Master and Margarita; explored the relationships between power and deceit and power and morality; and discussed an article about the scientific findings on the effects of power on its wielders. Except for the last one, …

The Every Lawyer
Legislative Reconciliation – Naiomi Metallic on Legislating Indigenous Self-government in Child Welfare

An in-depth look at Bill C-92, an Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, with Professor Naiomi Metallic, which turns into a broader discussion on legislative reconciliation and the ‘braiding together’ of existing legal orders. For those interested in advocacy, Prof. Metallic also makes the case for academia as THE place to change the law, and with it, society. …

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