This is new ground that has Canadian businesses, pundits, and lawyers trying to figure out whether it will mean more sweet ...

Reclaiming Indigenous place names is not merely a matter of changing geographic toponyms. It is a legal, cultural, historical, and linguistic process rooted in Indigenous laws and relationships to ...

A new report is taking stock of climate litigation in Canada and highlighting its increasing use in the fight against climate ...

Wrinkles aside, Hounsell says the new tort of intimate partner violence is an opportunity to regulate conduct. She points to car accidents, where if a person is found at fault, their insurance ...

Although plenty is going on as Parliament resumes, the federal government has a legislative agenda with fewer returning items than it often does coming into the fall sitting. That’s because, for the ...

The dissenting judges said voters who use the special ballot process have to assume the responsibilities that come with that ...

For many lawyers who hang out their shingle, a broad practice makes good sense. The more kinds of cases you’re willing to handle, the bigger your pool of potential clients — and the greater the ...

A cyberattack has potentially exposed sealed information and sensitive personal data at Ontario’s courts. On Wednesday, Thomson Reuters said the breach of its C-Track case management platform in June ...

The Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association is responding to the Regulations Amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (Asylum System Reform) published in the Canada ...

The Canadian Bar Association’s Privacy and Access Section broadly supports the proposed modernization of the Privacy Act but recommends safeguards to ensure privacy ...

At first pass, Chantal Bernier was taken aback by some of the changes in Ottawa’s updated privacy legislation. But after some reflection, she’s come to see them as “enlightened.” “It is both audacious ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the section of the Conflict of Interest Act that bars judicial review of the ethics commissioner's decisions is unconstitutional. The unanimous decision ...