PC Ontario Fund v. Essensa, 2012 ONCA 453 deals with judicial review of an electoral officer with duty to report to a provincial government. The Court found the officer's decisions were not subject…
Michael Tulloch to the Court of Appeal and Ed Morgan to the Superior Court. KUDOS!!! (And if I omitted an appointment it's because I haven't heard… Yet!)
R. v. Rao, 2012 BCCA 275 deals with a number of issues about what can be put forward as evidence on a preliminary inquiry and the right to examine and…
There has been some recent discussion in the media of whether bilingualism has failed in Canada. Most of the stories focus on how few people speak French in, say, Alberta.…
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I am a big fan of the Marriott chain of hotels. They are clean, comfortable and modern. But this story (link here) is troubling. I understand a policy of splitting…
Toronto Star June 27, 2012 James Morton The federal government says Canada's criminal law needs a major overhaul. The federal government is right. There is an opportunity to make some radical changes…
Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union v. Yellow Pages Group Company, 2012 ONCA 448 released today holds: In McKinley v. BC Tel, 2001 SCC 38, 2 S.C.R. 161, the Supreme…
The Justice of the Peace was right. Yes, freedom of the press is important. But so is the freedom of people to live their lives in peace. Here a young…
Alfano v. Piersanti, 2012 ONCA 442 is a good current example of the principle that where a decision disposes finally of a material issue the decision gives rise to a…
Ontario Deputy Judges' Association v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2012 ONCA 437 is a helpful decision making clear that a judge serving at the pleasure of a chief justice is permissible while serving at…
Covelli v. Sears Inc., 2012 ONSC 2437 deals with the assignment of cases to case management. For the reasons of lack of resources as set out below, the court will…
What does this mean? Is it a sign of the approaching End Times? ‘Girly’ Birkenstocks? Seriously, what’s next? Practical Prada? (Kidding aside, good for Birkenstock — responding to consumer demand…
On August 2, 1964, in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo…
