Proportionality and ‘ordinary people’: the SCC on summary judgment and how it might affect insurance practice April 01, 2014 Jennifer Taylor The SCC’s decision in Hryniak v. Mauldin, which urges litigants and counsel to consider the “proportionality principal” before moving forward with litigation, will change the way litigants, lawyers and courts approach summary judgment.
Who is to blame: the apportionment of fault April 01, 2014 Mike Libby When a bar patron drinks to excess, then drives and causes an accident, the bar can be found to hold a certain degree of blame for over-serving. How much blame is the question.