Resources

Deconstruct ethical challenges and build your skills for managing them.

When should you turn to an Ombudsman, rather than a traditional court or tribunal?

Dans une province essentiellement anglophone, les avocats de l'Ontario peuvent avoir une expérience limitée avec les procédures, les clients ou des avocats adverses francophones, alors que les avocats et les clients francophones peuvent rencontrer des difficultés importantes à accéder au système judiciaire.

Dans une province essentiellement anglophone, les avocats de l'Ontario peuvent avoir une expérience limitée avec les procédures, les clients ou des avocats adverses francophones, alors que les avocats et les clients francophones peuvent rencontrer des difficultés importantes à accéder au système judiciaire.

Learn about the French-language rights and the systemic challenges in fulfilling these rights. Gain critical information and key strategies from our expert panel on how to handle the practical challenges of practicing in a bilingual society.

Gain an essential understanding of the underlying concept of the public interest, and examine how governing bodies have exercised their public interest jurisdiction. Get clarity on the limitation of these powers and how they impact the role of the public sector lawyer.

What are Canadian lawyers doing to promote justice and the rule of law beyond our own borders? What can you do and how can you become involved?

Professional regulation is supposed to protect the public interest - not the interest of the professionals that a College regulates. Under the RHPA, Colleges have the duty, in carrying out their objects, to serve and protect the public interest.

Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and its municipal counterpart, the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), recognize that while there are important governmental and 3rd party confidentiality interests

In this presentation, the Deputy Attorney General elaborates on the significance and implications of each of these foundational principles.