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Waiting for Justice: Reflections on R v. Jordan

  • October 06, 2016
  • Jody Berkes and Brock B. Jones

The SCC calls on all participants of Canada's criminal justice system to reject 'culture of complacency and delay' and work toward ensuring timely justice.

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Discrimination in Wills: How far can it go?

  • September 30, 2016
  • Helen Burgess

A central tenet in estates law is that “a person has the right, subject to fulfilling specific legal obligations to dependants, to dispose of his or her estate in an absurd or capricious manner, whatever others may think of the fairness or reasonableness of the dispositions”. But what if the Will is discriminatory or found to be harmful to the public?

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Child Refugees and Canada’s Immigration Laws

  • September 15, 2016
  • Robert Israel Blanshay and Brock B. Jones

An overview of the groundbreaking Kanthasamy v. Canada, in which the SCC addressed the plight of a child refugee applicant from Sri Lanka.

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The New Frontier: Commercial Third-Party Litigation Funding

  • August 17, 2016
  • Khalid Karim and Scott R. Venton

Until recently, investment in litigation by third parties was a taboo subject in Ontario, however thanks to recent case Schenk v. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, it's now on the cusp of taking hold in Ontario.

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Debatable: Robo-Advising Could be a Boon for Access to Justice

  • August 16, 2016
  • Malcolm Mercer

Lawyers don’t come close to fully serving the legal needs that exist in society. There can be no ethical justification for prohibiting that which lawyers don’t actually provide nor, more scarily, what can be effectively provided at lower cost.

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Debatable: Robo-Advisors are another heavy burden for the legal profession

  • August 16, 2016
  • Joseph Groia and Siobhan Mullan

This issue’s debate looks at the increasingly popular robo-advisor; used in financial services, robo-advisors provide wealth management advice based on an automated algorithm, in place of live financial advisors. Could this technology be successfully applied to legal services? Would it be a boon to the profession or a means to increase access to justice?