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. BC Estate Litigation Blog 2. Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog 3. BC Provincial Court eNews 4. Vancouver Immigration Law Blog 5. David Whelan

BC Estate Litigation Blog
Spousal Status in Estate Litigation: Who is a “Spouse” and Why Does it Matter?

A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to speak to an audience of accountants about the issue of spousal status, and why it matters in estate litigation. The following is a summary of my speaking notes from that presentation. A spouse has certain rights: …

Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog
Study Documents Facial Injuries In Decade of UFC Bouts

Adding to this site’s data base of combat sports safety studies, a recent study was published in the Journal of Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine documenting the facial injury rate in a decade of UFC bouts. The study, titled Characteristics of Facial Trauma in Professional Mixed Martial Arts, reviewed 10 years worth of medical records from UFC …

BC Provincial Court eNews
BC Judicial Justice joins Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribuna

Most of the BC Provincial Court’s judicial justices are part-time judicial officers who may also do other work as long as it doesn’t conflict with their judicial duties in any way. For example, judicial justices may practise law, but not criminal law, because they deal with trials of provincial offence tickets, search warrant applications, and bail hearings. …

Vancouver Immigration Law Blog
Five AI-Decision Making Questions We Need Answers To From IRCC

In this short post, I will canvass five relatively urgent questions we need the collective answers to as we represent clients who are now being addressed by artificial-intelligence built decision-making systems. For clarity and to adopt IRCC’s status quo, I will not consider Chinook to be one of those systems, BUT it is clear Chinook interacts with AI and the role of Chinook as it pertains to decisions, especially as advanced analytics skips eligibility assessment become increasingly more important. …

David Whelan
I’ve Seen the Mastodon

I am now on Mastodon, the open source social media software. It’s not a platform like Twitter or Facebook. It’s just software and I am on an instance of it called Mastodon.world. I have not left Twitter nor do I plan to. But, like LinkedIn or Google+ or other platforms I’ve looked into, I’m curious about whether there is community there that I might join. …

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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.