Preuve technologique, Preuve technologique, Université de Montréal - Faculté de droit(15 mars 2019)

By Vancouver & Calgary Family Lawyer Marcus SixtaWe are proud to announce our latest family law success at the British Columbia Supreme Court.Our client was successful in proving that his wife had breached her fiduciary duty to the family business by gambling away nearly $700,000 during the marr... more »

The following regulations were published in The Saskatchewan Gazette, Part II, Vol. 115 No. 10, March 8, 2019: SR 10/2019 The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation Amendment Regulations, 2019. more »

Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Left to right: Lola Antonius, Lisa Weber, Judge Arcand-Kootenay, Breanna Arcand-Kootenay, Mark Tripe de Roche and Tyler Tremel As we complete our coverage of last week’s Speaker Series hosted by the Indigenous Law Students’ Association (“ILSA”), today’s post... more »

Commentaries from Wise Law's lawyers on current cases of interest Garry J. Wise:  Employees over the age of 60 are a perennially vulnerable sector of the Canadian workforce. Forcing an older employee to essentially retire through an unwarranted dismissal is now discriminatory and... more »

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is hosting a webinar on April 3, 2019 on The Changing Business of Law, and What It Means For Law Libraries. The speaker is John  Wu from Codify Legal Publishing:"The legal profession is in a state of unrest. Competition is increasing. The advance... more »

Does Wife’s 27-Year-Long Failure to Look for Work Override Her Right to Spousal Support “Until Death”? The Ontario Court of Appeal was asked to address some interesting questions in a recent case called Haworth v. Haworth.  The former spouses – who had actually separated more than 30 years... more »

Later this month the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) will hear a case that will determine “the future of the military justice system in Canada” (Chief Justice Bell in R... The post <em>R v Beaudry</em>: Is Canada’s Military Justice System Unconstitutional? appeared... more »

As of June of 2019, federal private corporations will be required to maintain a registry of “Individuals with Significant Control” (ISC) in addition to an annual obligation to take reasonable steps to ensure their register is complete and up-to-date. Corporations will have an obligation... more »

Administrator’s note: thanks to Lesley Ellen Harris of Copyrightlaws.com for this guest tip! Do you sometimes feel that there’s too much information out there? Do you wish there were a …... more »

When awarding damages for future losses BC Courts have an obligation to use appropriate present value multipliers in arriving at the lump sum awarded.  Normally this is achieved by relying on expert evidence in personal injury cases.  Given the BC Government’s recent restrictions on expert e... more »

Just one Quickscribe Online annotation update to share for last month: Kimberly Jakeman of Harper Grey LLP added new annotations to the Health Professions Act and Medicare Protection Act Learn more about Quickscribe Online and the valuable role it can play in your provincial legislative research her... more »

The first full length episode of the new LawBytes podcast features a conversation with UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who leads the high profile investigation into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Denham, who previously served as Assistant Commissioner with the federal privacy office... more »

(I’m trying something new here: Two posts on closely related topics, released simultaneously, rather than one massive post. For those of you born before 1992, think of it as a double-album release.) At the end of the companion post to this one, “The reality of collaboration,” I pro... more »

I was invited with my colleague Sarah Anderson Dykema to present on privacy by design for start-ups at Volta Labs. Volta is Eastern Canada's innovation hub, incubating and accelerating start-ups. The turnout was great and the presentation was well received. I promised to publish it on my blog for t... more »

Michael Woods is scheduled to participate on a panel discussion on Indigenous perspectives and international trade law at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law on March 19, 2019. His participation reflects his ongoing involvement in the field as a member of the executive of the International I... more »

Over the past two years working with Loom, I’ve had the good fortune of meeting with people from different segments […]... more »

In Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 2051 v Georgian Clairlea Inc. (“Georgian”) the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed the findings of the motion judge with respect to a declarant’s disclosure obligations as set out in the Condominium Act, 1998 (“Act”). … Continue reading &#... more »

Here are the slides from my Advocates’ Society presentation today. I addressed the following two questions: Today, is a right-thinking judge (in a non-criminal case) likely to exclude evidence obtained in breach of privacy? The intrusion upon seclusion tort. What have we learned about elements... more »

While February is only a couple days shorter than most months, that missing handful of days is acutely felt right around now! Nevertheless, our clients managed to fit in lots of blogging, speaking, sponsoring and teaching this month. Here’s a …... more »