Articles 2023

The author, criminal defence lawyer Hamna Anwar, makes a request to senior counsel: When you are giving advice to junior lawyers who look up to you, please be mindful of the power of your words. Please do not provide advice that teaches young, racialized women to minimize themselves or play it small.

Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of January 24-28, 2022.

Mandate letters issued by the Prime Minister include direction to introduce amendments to the ITA that would make certain organizations ineligible for charitable status. It remains to be seen what amendments may be introduced, but the proposal is concerning as it specifically targets an existing segment of the sector and it could have unintended long-term consequences for all charities. Any proposed amendments therefore need to be carefully monitored.

As a young lawyer trying to learn the ins and outs of practice, it can be difficult to stay on top of recent jurisprudential developments. This article provides four tips on how you can keep up with current case law and maintain the requisite level of competency to represent your clients.

As the highly-contagious Omicron variant sweeps across the province and COVID-19 immunization campaigns for children ramp up, two recent Ontario decisions—A.C. v. L.L., 2021 ONSC 6530 and Saint-Phard v. Saint-Phard, 2021 ONSC 6910—offer a glimpse of the legal trends emerging at this latest intersection of family law and health law.

Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of January 17, 2022.