In today’s world, obesity as a health issue receives considerable continual mention, yet has not yet definitively been included under the Code’s disability definition.

A survey of different jurisdictions around the world and a sample of some contrasting approaches to legal services regulation.

When an emergency room has too many patients and not enough doctors to address the demands, some hospitals declare a “Code Census”. Similarly, in law offices, client demands may outstrip the resources needed to address them. This article outlines steps lawyers can take to avoid, as well as what to do during, a Code Census while meeting one’s professional obligations.

Phil Tunley shares his experience and insights about trial preparation, client management and advancing Charter claims in the context of some of the worst human rights abuses ever litigated in Canada.

Kathleen Robichaud discusses the importance of human interaction in legal services, particularly in this age of automation.

You are about to go on an adventure, one over which you have control of the outcome.

Why do lawyers move to mediation, and how should they get there?

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?