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About Patricia Hughes

Founding Executive Director of the Law Commission of Ontario (2007-2015); Dean of Law, University of Calgary (2001-2006); currently independent.

Posts by Patricia Hughes

Determining Judicial Ethical Conduct: Not So Straightforward? Part II

Determining Judicial Ethical Conduct: Not So Straightforward? Part I

Crown Immunity Means Tough Luck for the Police: A Good Call?

How Far Can We Go Before the Constitutional Bargain Is Undermined?

Proposed Rules Under the Legal Aid Services Act, 2020: Impact on Community Legal Clinics

Challenging Bill 21: The Decision on Section 33 of the Charter (Among Other Things)

Universal Design and the Legal System: Part 2, Application (Beginning the Conversation)

Universal Design and the Legal System: Part I, Background

There Ought to Be a Law: Vaccine Queue Jumping

The Federal Travel Requirements: Musing About Constitutional Questions

What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Law: Part 2

What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Law: Part 1

Callow, Fraser and G: Perspectives on the Role of Law and of the Courts

Adducing Sensitive Evidence and Writing Decisions: Where Do We Draw the Line?

Rift on the Supreme Court Bench? Cont’d (Fraser and G)

Making the Hard Decisions: Ethical Lawyering

Dissecting the Majority and Dissenting Opinions in Fraser

States of Emergency: The Inequity of Municipal Governance During the Pandemic

Judicial Independence: An Ethical Issue for Individual Judges

Gas Pump Stickers and Compelled Speech

SCJ Grants CCLA Public Interest Standing to Challenge the Mandatory Gas Pump Sticker

When Law Doesn’t Work: Outlier Theory

Comments on the LSO’s Education Plan for a Family Legal Services Provider Licence

Democracy, Emergency and the Reopening Ontario Act

Seeking Equality in Tech Legal Advances: Living With Disabilities

What We Already Knew About Shameful COVID-19 Hotspots

The Toronto Mask by-Law: Velvet Law in a Velvet Glove?

From Discrimination to Systemic Racism: Understanding Societal Construction

The Role of the Legal Profession in Promoting Democracy

The Constitutionality of Interprovincial Boundary Closures (Part III)