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 seventy 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. McElroy Law Blog  2. Alcohol & Advocacy 3.
AvoidaClaim  4. Canadian Class Actions Monitor  5. Canadian Legal History Blog

McElroy Law Blog
August Criminal Law Round-up

While the courts are typically quieter during the summer months, there was no shortage of interesting criminal law news in the month of August: News: Canada announced changes to its medical marijuana legislation, passing the Access to Canabis for a Medical Purpose Regulations. These replace the former rules (Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, or MMPR’s) and allow people to produce their own medical marijuana subject to some limitations. …

Alcohol & Advocacy
Liquor Law Appeals Part 2 – The Cambie Malone’s Corporation

On April 13, 2016 the British Columbia Court of Appeal released its reasons in The Cambie Malone’s Corporation v. British Columbia (Liquor Control and Licensing Branch). The Cambie Malone’s decision related to two appeals by the Cambie Malone’s corporation of two separate judicial review decisions made in March and April 2015. Both appeals were dismissed. British Columbia’s highest court does not often get the opportunity to weigh-in on liquor law disputes, so when it does stakeholders in the industry should take notice. …

AvoidaClaim
The Kenora gambit: Why it pays to know Ontario has two time zones

Did you know Ontario has two time zones? Veteran Claims Counsel Doug Scott was able to exploit that fact to help one of our insureds “repair” a problem and avoid a claim. Late one afternoon, Doug took a call from a frantic Toronto area lawyer who explained that a limitation period to sue on a business contract was expiring that day and the court office was now closed. …

Canadian Class Actions Monitor
Access to Justice in “Manageability” of Individual Issues: Appeal Dismissed in Fantl v Transamerica Life Canada

In the recent decision of Fantl v Transamerica Life Canada (“Fantl”)[1], the Ontario Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed the appeal of the Divisional Court’s decision and confirmed the certification of class claims in negligent misrepresentation, noting that it was time for class actions to “deliver on their promise of access to justice”[2] when it comes to individual issues. …

Canadian Legal History Blog
Brown and Hudak, ‘Have you any recollection of what occurred at all?’: Davis v. Colchester County Hospital and Medical Negligence in Interwar Canada

In the new issue (new series, vol. 26 no.1) of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Blake Brown and Magen Hudak have an article, “‘Have you any recollection of what occurred at all?’: Davis v. Colchester County Hospital and Medical Negligence in Interwar Canada.” …

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