Articles 2020

I look forward to similar programs being offered over the coming year. Our Charter Update will be held on September 18th and includes impressive speakers such as Justice Rothstein of the Supreme Court and important constitutional topics such as the role of the Governor General in Canada’s democracy

On June 17, 2009, lawyers involved in several recent Supreme Court search and seizure cases appeared at the Ontario Bar Association Conference Centre to deliver their thoughts on these key decisions to an assembly of interested and informed gatherers.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently closed a “loophole” created by the Ontario Court of Appeal’s 1993 decision in Prete v. Ontario when it held in Ravndahl v. Saskatchewan that statutory limitation periods apply to constitutional claims for personal monetary relief.

The wage restraint and pay equity laws passed as part of the federal government’s most recent budget are coming under fire from several public sector unions. The statutes are the subject of a number of Charter challenges filed by unions...