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It was a fairly busy week at the Court of Appeal, with the Court releasing twelve civil decisions, nine criminal and provincial offences decisions, and one Ontario Review Board decision. Areas of law covered this week included agreements of purchase of sale of land, limitation periods, automobile insurance, personal injury, family, estates, contracts, employment and vexatious litigants.

Alan Gold discusses the impact of changes to drinking, drugs and driving offence legislation - specifically, how new statement admissibility legislation stacks up next to existing jurisprudence.

Non-competition clauses in employment contracts present a conflict between two long-standing common law principles: discouraging restraints on trade and respecting freedom of contract. To make the terms enforceable, employers need to ensure they are drafted carefully, clearly and as narrowly as possible. Employees should similarly take caution before agreeing to a non-compete provision. Read on for more insight on non-solicitation clauses to assist your clients in the future.

Losing is a part of litigation. A big part. The adage goes that a lawyer who wins 100 per cent of their cases is a lawyer doing their other clients a disservice by not pushing the difficult matters to trial. Read on for insights from Jonah Waxman on the value of experience that comes from defeat.

In an interview with Tahir Khorasanee, Mr. Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, an entrepreneur who is presently Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development and Chairman of the National Tourism Coordination Board (NTCB) and the Pakistan Tourism Board, brings attention to a humanitarian crisis in India that risks depriving more than a million people of statehood.

The transition from being an articling student to an associate is far from easy. This article contains a few time management strategies that helped the author make a successful transition.

Blake v. Blake is an important cautionary tale for all lawyers: read all of the articles that your firm publishes. A judge may make a factual inference that you know about the case your firm wrote about, especially if you practice in a specialized firm.

Case comment on the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Reaction Distributing Inc. v. Algonquin Highlands (Township), 2019 ONCA 433.

There are four substantive cases this week.