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. Condo Adviser/STACK Condo Law 2. SOQUIJ | Le Blogue 3. Welcome to the Food Court 4. BC Injury Law Blog 5. Know How

Condo Adviser/STACK Condo Law
Are Condo Owners Entitled to Access Legal Invoices?

Condo owners often want to know where their money is going. That is especially true when the corporation is spending money on lawyers and even more so when the fees are charged back to a specific owner. These situations often lead to records requests seeking access to legal invoices, leaving us with this question: “Can owners see the corporation’s legal invoices?”. Perhaps asked differently, are legal bills corporate records accessible to owners? …

SOQUIJ | Le Blogue
Devoirs des avocats: illustrations jurisprudentielles 2025-2026

Au cours des derniers mois, le Conseil de discipline du Barreau du Québec a rendu plusieurs décisions se voulant autant de rappels des obligations déontologiques des avocats trouvant notamment leurs sources dans le Code des professions (C.prof.), le Code de déontologie des avocats du Québec ainsi que dans le Règlement sur la comptabilité et les normes d’exercice professionnel des avocats. Dans ce billet, il sera plus précisément question des devoirs de l’avocat, tant envers sa profession que l’administration de la justice, ainsi que des exigences liées à l’utilisation d’un compte en fidéicommis. Usage des médias sociaux, choix de mots-clics, inspection professionnelle, mandat pro bono, charge de travail, compte en fidéicommis, voici, en bref, certains des sujets qui ont été abordés dans les décisions qui vous seront présentées. …

Welcome to the Food Court
The Credibility Problem with AI-Drafted Compliance Documents

For context, on April 2, 2026, the FDA issued what appears to be its first warning letter with a dedicated AI-manufacturing section, to Purolea Cosmetics Lab in Livonia, Michigan. The letter found that AI agents had generated drug specifications, procedures, and master production records, and that the firm used the AI-generated documents without the review CGMP requires. The firm’s owner told FDA investigators she had not known process validation was required because the AI agent had not informed her. FDA devoted a stand-alone section of the warning letter to “Inappropriate Use of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.” In Canada, CFIA does not operate through warning letters in the same way as FDA does, and much of our work is learned through inspections, correspondence, enforcement files, and practice around CFIA decision-making. So, I thought we would address the Purolea question in a way that lands closer to home: when does a Canadian food operator’s preventive control plan become the subject of the same conversation? In our practice over the past year, we have started to read documents that we are confident were generated by AI. We see stylistic patterns that are immediately recognizable, particularly from less sophisticated users of LLM outputs. …

BC Injury Law Blog
Can the Government Be Negligent For Not Shutting Down A “Smoker”?

A smoker. In the combat sports world this is slang for an unsanctioned / unregulated fight. Cutting corners. Avoiding regulation. Exposing athletes to the dangers of a potentially neglectful environment. Last week the BC Court of Appeal released reasons for judgement addressing whether the government could be liable for not shutting down such an alleged event. The recent case (British Columbia Athletic Commissioner v. Simon Fraser University) involved a tragic outcome at an amateur level martial arts contest. …

Know How
House of Bills: May 25-28, 2026

Good morning, Bill enthusiasts. This is the second to last edition of House of Bills for this season – click through to see what was lost and gained last week in the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Bill 9, Municipal Accountability Act, 2026 Third reading vote, carried on division (May 26, 2026) …

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