Monday’s Mix

• Author: Administrator
• Date: January 12, 2015

Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from sixty recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible.

This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. David Whelan 2. Éloïse Gratton 3. SOQUIJ 4. The Court 5. Ontario Condo Law Blog

David Whelan
Cut Your Library Nose Off to Fight for Space

File this one under different perspective. There is a tension in courthouse libraries. Keep in mind that, in most cases, whether the courthouse law library is funded by the local or regional government or by membership dues, the library is almost always run by the local bar and/or bench in North America. This means that you have competing interests over what the library is supposed to be and what it is supposed to do….

Éloïse Gratton
Forty hours on privacy

I will be teaching, for a third consecutive year, DRT-6929E-A, a privacy law course at the University of Montreal Law Faculty. The class is offered to Masters degree students and takes place every Monday from 4 to 7pm, January 12 to April 13, 2015. I have been teaching since 2009 (e-commerce law from 2009 – 2013) and every year, I really look forward to teaching. Here’s a summary of my 40 hour privacy course…

SOQUIJ
La Commission des relations du travail doit appliquer avec souplesse la règle du functus officio

Le 21 novembre 2014, la Cour supérieure a infirmé une décision de la Commission des relations du travail (CRT) qui avait refusé de se prononcer sur la continuité de l’entreprise de l’employeur – une résidence pour personnes âgées – au motif qu’elle avait épuisé sa compétence. Il s’agit de l’affaire Turcot c. Commission des relations du travail….

The Court
Tipping the Scale for Unwarranted Arrests: R v Day

Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) delivered a single-paragraph...