As a supplement to our Sunday Summary each month, Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa presents Supreme One-Liners, a super-short descriptive guide to the most recent decisions at the Supreme Court of ...

Canada's online legal magazineJustice Hamilton (BC SC) recently issued a scathing decision against an unauthorized immigration representative, including a judgment that included more than $80k USD in ...

Butterworths was founded in 1818 by Henry Butterworth. I know that this momentous anniversary is being marked and celebrated far and wide. Now more frequently but not always described as Lexis Nexis, ...

If you’ve been adrift on the internet desperately trying not to drown in the flood of legal information, great news! You’ve found a raft! No, that’s not really funny. When you’re representing yourself ...

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries ...

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Businesses are deeply implicated in abuses of human rights defenders worldwide. In 2021 more than “a quarter of lethal attacks were linked to resource exploitation,” according to Global Witness.

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I remain surprised at the number of intelligent, articulate, and well-read legal professionals who still use “and/or” in legal writing. I am therefore creating this post to document a fairly complete ...

A few years ago I was doing some work for a professional association on guidelines for dealing with litigants without counsel and I was struck by the extent to which some legal professionals regard ...

Section 216(1) IRPR requires an officer to issue study permit where it is established that the foreign national has met the requirements of the IRPR. One of the requirements which relates to financial ...

The amended Divorce Act requires a lawyer to “encourage” their client to “attempt to resolve” the issue through a “family dispute resolution process, unless the circumstances of the case are of such a ...