Recent Posts by Canadian Law Bloggers
Copyright has several rules which apply automatically. If an employee creates a work in the scope of employment, and absent an agreement to the contrary, the employer is the first owner of the copyright in the work.[1] The Ontario Court of Appeal had occasion to focus on what is meant by the words ‘in the scope of employment’ in Nexus Solutions Inc. v. Krougly, 2026 ONCA 199. At trial, the Cou... more »
Copyright has several rules which apply automatically. If an employee creates a work in the scope of employment, and absent an agreement to the contrary, the employer is the first owner of the copyright in the work.[1] The Ontario Court of Appeal had occasion to focus on what is meant by the words ... more »
Preparation improves credibility and efficiency. It also increases the likelihood of achieving meaningful progress at each appearance. ... more »
For the better part of two years, I have written about antisemitism on Canadian university campuses from the vantage point of personal experience: a post I never thought I would need to write on the right of Jewish students to feel safe on campus, the normalization of antisemitism at encampments inc... more »
AI doesn’t just hallucinate case law, it hallucinates website domains too. In a new and growing form of digital attack, hackers use AI agents to query search engines to get the most common hallucinated sites. A bad actor then registers the hallucinated domain and creates a convincing website at th... more »
Law students typically learn about solicitor-client privilege as centred around the client. This privilege, so I was taught, ensures that clients can be frank with their lawyer; with the benefit of full disclosure from their client, lawyers can make the best case for their client. The facts in R v F... more »
By: Gideon Christian Decisions commented on: R v Klayme, 2024 NSPC 4 (CanLII) and R v Klayme, 2026 NSCA 59 (CanLII) PDF Version: How an Underscore Sent an Innocent Man to Jail It all began when a mother in Wisconsin, United States, checked her 12-year-old daughter’s phone. What she discovered was... more »
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Préface de l’ouvrage de Ledy Rivas Zannou Les enjeux juridiques de la consommation mobile en Afrique de l’Ouest : analyse du processus contractuel Vincent Gautrais Professeur, CRDP, Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal Élégance. Professeur Ledy Rivas Zannou, avec l’élé... more »
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, known as PIPEDA, has been Canada's private sector privacy law since 2001. It's currently the law that governs how businesses collect, use and disclose your personal information. It's the law that made the Privacy Commissioner of Cana... more »
Waterstone Law is pleased to welcome our new associate lawyer, Amrit Dhillon, to our growing Abbotsford office. His practice areas include Business Law and Real Estate Transactions. Amrit was born and raised in Abbotsford and is proud to return to the community where he grew up. He completed his Bac... more »
Waterstone Law is pleased to welcome our new associate lawyer, Amrit Dhillon, to our growing Abbotsford office. His practice areas include Business Law and Real Estate Transactions. Amrit was born and raised in Abbotsford and is proud to return to the community where he grew up. He completed his Bac... more »
Waterstone Law is pleased to welcome our new associate lawyer, Amrit Dhillon, to our growing Abbotsford office. His practice areas include Business Law and Real Estate Transactions. Amrit was born and raised in Abbotsford and is proud to return to the community where he grew up. He completed his Bac... more »
The following is a round-up of noteworthy articles published this month on estate litigation issues: Eric Hendry, tax lawyer at Gowling LLP – Ontario, writes about how estate planners can navigate tax dual-residency and the applicability of ‘tie breaker’ treaties for the All About Estates law... more »
On October 28, 2025, the Court of Appeal of Alberta affirmed that the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (the OIPC) acted unreasonably in narrowly construing the teaching and research records exclusion in the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA... more »
The Supreme Court of Canada has released its annual report 2024 Year in Review. The report covers the Court's activities over the past year, including information about decisions and statistics. From the message of the Chief Justice of Canada, Richard Wagner: "In our democracy, legitimacy depends... more »
We are excited to publish our second episode of The Lawyer Coach’s Lunch Bites! TLC Lunch Bites are short videos on a variety of topics that come up commonly in coaching conversations with lawyers. These short videos provide an opportunity to learn useful coaching nuggets quickly. As lawyers, we k... more »
During their meeting at the Rideau Club in Ottawa, a few days before Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (September 30th). Wayne Garnons-Williams and Michael Woods reviewed the work of the International Inter-Tribal Trade and Investment Organization (IITIO) [https://iitio.org/] in pr... more »
This will be my last post here at the Law21 blog for awhile. It’s also my first post here in a while, and these two are connected. Today, I’m launching a Substack newsletter that will effectively replace this blog. This is a pretty major change for me, and I feel I owe you an explanation of [... more »
The following pieces of legislation received annotations in Quickscribe Online in January: Family Law Act - John-Paul E Boyd QC, John-Paul Boyd Arbitration Chambers Local Government Act, Community Charter - Don Lidstone, QC, Lidstone & Company Business Corporations Act - Debby Cumberford... more »