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- Motherisk, Pintea, and Summary Judgment in Child Protection CasesJune 20, 2018
This week’s guest blog is written by Kate Kehoe. Kate was counsel to the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto from 1999 – 2007. She is now a consultant in Ottawa, and acted as a Policy Analyst & Writer for the Motherisk Commission. Kate Kehoe As regular readers of the NSRLP blog know, the use of summar … Read more »
- Déjà Vu: We Keep Asking the Wrong Questions about Licensing ReformJune 7, 2018
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has produced a licensing reform report setting out proposals for “transitional education” – that is, taking law students from graduation to their call to the bar. The LSO’s Professional Development and Competence Committee has proposed four options for which they are … Read more »
- Gender & Language in Judicial Decisions: A New Report from the SRL Case Law DatabaseMay 29, 2018
Today the NSRLP releases the latest in its series of research reports drawing on the data we are collecting and analyzing in the SRL Case Law Database. To Refresh Your Memory The SRL Case Law Database is an ongoing project of the NSRLP. Our team of research assistants are steadily working back in ti … Read more »
- Conflict of Interest: Should Lawyers Decide Who Provides Legal Services?May 16, 2018
Driving to the barn this weekend, I turned on US National Public Radio and found myself listening to a Freakonomics episode about nurse-practitioners. The longer I listened to this discussion of the role of nurse-practitioners in the US – which touched on the general antipathy of the American Medica … Read more »
- Building More Layers of Research on the SRL Phenomenon: Upcoming Publications from NSRLPMay 10, 2018
This week, NSRLP is releasing the first in our upcoming series of Research Reports using material from the SRL Case Law Database. Lidia Imbrogno Since January 2018, a student team (under the leadership of RA Lidia Imbrogno) has been building a detailed database of decisions that affect SRLs and refl … Read more »