The Government of Canada launches a public consultation on Canada’s participation in treaty negotiations on artificial intelligence, and its impact on human rights, democracy and the rule of law at the Council of Europe. Share your thoughts here ow.ly/oZ1050Q6upl

Checklists and templates for Application Books, Appeal Books, Factums, Statements, and Written Arguments have also been revised to reflect changes in the practice directive, and to require spacing between paragraphs and footnotes in Arial 12: bccourts.ca/Court_of_Appea….

Court of Appeal for BC upholds judgment that found soccer player liable for what the judge found to be a dangerous and reckless slide tackle. There is liability for dangerous conduct that is outside of the rules and reasonable expectations. 2024 BCCA 3: bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/24/…

2024 BCCA 2 bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/24/…: Not patently unreasonable for RTB to decide a transitional housing was not subject to the Act because it was temporary. But Court calls out persistent discord from the RTB on issue of temporariness; invited RTB to fix this going forward @ [29]

Instead of a school's 100-page policy on Artificial Intelligence, I suggest this little bit of Human.

This is a new one. Saw the Supreme Court of Canada reject a Crown factum today because one of the pages had more than 500 words on it which is a requirement from the Guidelines. (It basically had a big block quote on it.) Apparently they are cracking down now. #SCC

Judgment coming tomorrow. "The central question posed by these joint petitions is simply stated: does the City have the legislative authority to prohibit rent increases between (as opposed to during) tenancies?" There are also interesting Qs about how to assess vires in here.

So pleased to have worked with Hoi Kong and Richard Mailey on pulling together this online free access collection of academic commentary on s. 33 (the override provision) of the Charter. journals.library.ualberta.ca/constitutional…

It’s here! Volume 21 of the Scribes Journal is filled with some fascinating articles and essays, and I’m thrilled to have gotten to work with our wonderful authors. If you’re a member, copies are hitting mailboxes now. If not, please consider joining us! scribes.org/membership/

Anyone know of any good Board of Director continuing legal education/general education materials (preferably unique to BC)? Looking for some materials to share with my team as we are all relatively new to serving on a Board and eager to learn.

If you're wondering why the disposition is answers to questions, without being a reference question, it is because the underlying motion was under Rule 23 of New Brunswick's Rules of Court, allowing a pre-trial determination of questions of law. laws.gnb.ca/en/document/cr…

Aujourd’hui, la juge en chef adjointe Jocelyne Gagné quitte ses fonctions de juge en chef adjointe. Elle continuera de siéger à la Cour fédérale en tant que juge puînée.

Share how you felt the earthquake in Victoria, Vancouver, and surroundings: "Did You Feel It?" earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/dyfi-lavr/inde…

Did not have a debate about the intrinsic dimensionality of a line vs its presence in ambient R³ space on my SCC bingo card. (Listen to or watch the full hearing here: scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/i…)