Authoritarian attacks on foundational principles of the rule of law have escalated in the United States since President Trump’s inauguration. In the course of just 127 days, threats to the ...

As a supplement to our Sunday Summary each month, Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa presents Supreme One-Liners, a super-short descriptive guide to the most recent decisions at the Supreme Court of ...

Claims for infringement of a patent have an unusual place when it comes to limitation periods. A recent decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal has provided some clarity to this issue but there is ...

Thanks Sarah. Of course, the term “publishing” has always been too wide a definition, and to put the likes of the major legal publishers under the same category as the majority of publishers can be ...

As a child living in remote Northern B.C., my dad had a dog sled team made up of several Siberian Huskies. Huskies are working dogs prized for their strength and endurance. They require significant ...

Thomas Bassoff’s trial for murder opened at Macleod, Alberta on October 12, 1920, with Justice Maitland McCarthy, Supreme Court of Alberta, presiding. It quickly became obvious that Bassoff was both ...

On December 18, 2024, the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued a decision in Clearview AI Inc. v. Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, 2024 BCSC 2311. At its core, the case ...

A case scheduled for fall 2025 before the Ontario Court of Appeal will presumably address the appropriate test for granting leaves to appeal (see Knauff v. Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (Div. Ct.) ...

This is a case of not closing the barn door after the horse is out, to use a pre-twentieth-century expression for a twenty-first-century issue. But, more precisely, I want to argue for propping the ...

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set out some recommendations for cultural competency training for lawyers, law students and public servants. The Calls to Action (numbers 27, 28 ...

Renowned for its dysfunction, the leadership of the Ontario Superior Court deserves some credit for belatedly admitting the court to be in crisis. Acknowledging the need for bold, fundamental reforms ...