New from me at CBA National ABC: Replacing Justice Russell Brown—The puisne justice's resignation creates several gaps in the court's expertise
With thanks to Emmett Macfarlane 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 and Gerard Kennedy #SCC #cdnlaw nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles…

Constitutional Note: a Premier who loses a confidence vote has no right to advise the LG to dissolve the Legislature. The link of responsible government is broken.

Issue is if LG can find someone else who can command the confidence of the Assembly. #nbpoli #cdnlaw

Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown resigns before start of inquiry into alleged harassment theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

.Todd Bensman Explains Trash Field Left by Illegal Entrants on the Rio Grande Riverbank

Watch more border videos: cis.org/Bensman/Video-…

(It would be extremely unusual bordering on unprecedented for an LG to refuse a premier's request to call an election three years into a mandate)

Wow. Though suspect he was not entirely satisfied with his role on #scc #cdnlaw Whole issue brings into focus flaws & gaps in our judicial discipline regime, that has never removed a federally appointed judge

(2/2) Charter Statements are required for each new government bill. These statements, tabled in Parliament, identify the potential effects of a bill on Charter-protected rights and freedoms.
justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl… #cdnlaw

Upcoming this November 30th is our Annual Advocacy & Insurance Seminar, hosted at the Sheraton Hotel Hamilton from 9:00 am - 3 pm. For more details, contact Stephanie at [email protected] to RSVP
#HLAevents #lawyer #ONlawyers #canlaw #cdnlaw

📢 Attention uOttawa | COMMON LAW students! A new upper year seminar has just been added to the course calendar that will explore issues relating to AI and the Legal Profession. Winter 2024, led by me. Course description below.

For fifty years, we’ve been offering an assessment of each legislative session’s heroes and villains. Our scorecard of the Eighty-eighth Texas Legislature’s noisy scoundrels and quiet heroes is here.

These are the best and worst legislators of 2023. 1/ texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

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Also for the late crowd, my other CBA National ABC story today, wherein I get some expert reaction to Dr Lindsay Tedds 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪 and Gillian Petit’s study on legal aid thresholds disadvantaging women, which affects access to justice #cdnlaw #cdnpoli nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles…

New from me at CBA National ABC: Legal aid's barrier to women—Income thresholds pose a higher access barrier to single women living in poverty than men. That's what the data tells us. #cdnpoli #cdnlaw
Featuring research from Dr Lindsay Tedds 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪 nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles…

Kathleen Aldridge Tracey 🇨🇦/🇺🇦 Victory/BIPOC🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ally/😷 💉 True. But they are governed by #CdnLaw .
justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-…
This law established the #LiberalCatchAndRelease policies.
& ladies; yesterday Marco Mendicino himself made this tweet arbitrary when he blamed 'his' civil servants' for not doing his job.
Raquel Dancho #cdnpoli

Sean Fine The Globe and Mail Most on right & left respect the court's efforts at striking a balance in favour of the rule of law despite attempts by some to politicize #scc #cdnlaw

This is a basic rule of law issue. A Minister expresses their views as part of an administrative action via issuing guidelines and policies under the Education Act.

Ministerial statements do not have legal effect. #nbpoli #cdnlaw

Must Have a Good Reason to File Human Rights Claim Late slaw.ca/2023/06/15/mus… #law #legal #cdnlaw #employmentlaw #hrlaw #emplaw

For the evening crowd, my CBA National ABC story on the skills gaps left on the #SCC after the sudden resignation of Justice Brown #cdnlaw #cdnpoli nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles…

The minister says teachers are forbidden from using a child's chosen name and pronoun without parental consent. He says if they still respect chosen pronouns, and parents complain, their job is on the line.

But none of the above is in the policy.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

Ooh! This looks super interesting and timely. #cdnlaw

Toronto partner Mario Nigro spoke at #Connect2023 , hosted by the CBV Institute, where he shared his insightful knowledge on navigating the complexities associated with structuring, negotiating, and executing North American cross-border #MandA transactions.

#CdnLaw

This week’s top three summaries: R v Rabbit, 2023 ABCA 170: #gladue reduction, R v TJH 2023 YKCA 2: #CSO for s.151, and R v Gabad, 2023 ABKB 267: s.7 #witness protection records.

#defencetoolkit #cdnlaw #criminaljustice #lawtwitter

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NB SCC Justice Rand on the Rule of Law means that Government cannot act simply on the arbitrary likes, dislikes and irrelevant purposes of public officers acting beyond their duty. #nbpoli #cdnlaw

Former #SCC Justice Louis LeBel has passed. #cdnlaw

An employee in the Supreme Court of Canada library made a #crochet 🧶 stuffy of Amicus, the court’s official mascot, and a friendly wise owl. This may appeal most to the #knitting contingent of #cdnlaw and #droitcdn

The ESA and terminations – 101 blog.firstreference.com/the-esa-and-te… #employmentlaw #humanresources #workplace #law #legal #cdnlaw #business #management

The s.7 claim failed. Ridiculous that the lawyers didn’t also make a s.15 equality claim, which the SCC has indicated it may be more sympathetic towards. They could’ve put in an alternative argument but didn’t. 😔 #cdnlaw cbc.ca/news/politics/…