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 sixty 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. À bon droit  2. The Factum 3. Global Workplace Insider  4. All About Information  5. National Blog

À bon droit
La passation de titre n’est possible que dans la mesure où elle se fonde sur une offre valide

La passation de titre est l’ultime expression de la volonté du législateur de donner effet au consentement libre et éclairé donné par des parties à une offre d’achat/vente. En effet, nous avons déjà discuté à plusieurs reprises de la flexibilité dont feront preuve les tribunaux pour donner effet à ces offres. Reste qu’il faut que l’offre sur laquelle se base la partie qui demande passation soit valide comme le souligne l’Honorable juge André Prévost dans Jet Version inc. c. Jardins Normand Lalande inc. (2015 QCCS 1415). …

The Factum
Hot Off the Press — If You’re Charged with a Crime

We’ve made minor revisions to this short, easy-to-understand pamphlet and reprinted it. It outlines: what happens when someone is charged with a criminal offence, the first steps in the court process and the different options that might be available, the accused person’s legal rights, and how to get legal aid or other legal help. Previous editions of this pamphlet are no longer current; please recycle. …

Global Workplace Insider
Case Note: New seriously ill family member leave in Alberta

Amendments to the Alberta Employment Standards Code came into effect, extending job protection to employees who require leaves of absence to care for seriously ill family members. Employees who meet the eligibility criteria will be entitled to up to eight weeks total unpaid leave within a 26-week period. The new provisions define the familial relationships in respect of which the provisions will apply and set out the conditions under and extent to which the protected leave may be accessed. …

All About Information
Alberta OIPC lacks power to compel production to resolve solicitor-client privilege appeals

On April 2nd, the Court of Appeal of Alberta held that the Alberta Freedom of Information and protection of Privacy Act does not give the Alberta OIPC the power to compel the production of records over which a public body has asserted solicitor-client privilege. The Court considered the power granted by the following provision: Despite any other enactment or any privilege of the law of evidence, a public body must produce to the Commissioner within 10 days any record or a copy of any record required under subsection … (2). …

National Blog
Taking your legal temperature on Law Day

Today is Law Day in Canada, a date chosen to commemorate the signing of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. CBA branches across the country take part in Law Day by planning a host of activities to raise awareness about lawyers and the law, many of which take place in schools or involve students. This is fitting because as the CBA’s report Reaching Equal Justice underlines, it’s important to empower people to participate in the justice system – and a big part of that ability to participate comes through education. …
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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.