2019

A version of this article was originally published by The Lawyer's Daily, part of LexisNexis Canada Inc., on July 2, 2019.

On Feb. 6, 2019, the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in Weir-Jones Technical Services Incorporated v Purolator Canada Ltd., 2019 ABCA 49, wherein a panel of five justices clarified the test for summary judgment1 in that province.

On Jan. 25, 2019, certain provisions governing the Autorité des marchés publics came into effect, a welcome and anticipated change for many public bodies and private enterprises.

I live and work in the Yukon justice system, which is also within the traditional territory of the Ta’an and Kwanlin Dun First Nation lands here in Whitehorse.

Human rights are about each of us living in dignity and the human rights project is about standing up to injustice and showing solidarity in the face of oppression. Due to economic globalization, operations of transnational corporations have an impact on local and international markets and affairs of state.

In September of 2014, instead of completing my third-year law courses at Université de Montréal as planned, I moved to Ottawa and joined the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law – Civil Law Section.

On June 3, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada yet again upheld the constitutional principle in support of professional secrecy between legal advisors and their clients. Arthur Grant, of Grant Kovacs Novell, looks at the decisions in Canada (Attorney General) v. Chambre des notaires du Québec and in Canada (National Revenue) v. Thompson.

The latest in the Constitutional and Human Rights Law Section’s regular series of case updates looks at 10 cases, contributed by members from across the country, with a constitutional or human rights angle.

In a decision that specifically speaks to the interplay between sections 7 and 15 of the Charter, the Ontario Court of Appeal found violations of those sections not justified under s.1 in respect of the mental health treatment and…

In Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), the SCC determined that the federal criminal laws are inapplicable to physician-assisted dying. Grace Pastine, Litigation Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, provides the case brief.