Trouble sleeping? Try having your phone read the Rules of Civil Procedure to you. You’ll drift off to a soothing stream of minutiae, like sheep jumping over a fence. Very few Big Ideas will excite you ...

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It’s December first and that of course means it’s time to open up Clawbies nominations! And because we are getting set to issue our 20th edition of the awards, we called in for reinforcements! The ...

It’s December first and that of course means it’s time to open up Clawbies nominations! And because we are getting set to issue our 20th edition of the awards, we called in for reinforcements! The ...

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 ...

Transformative change is underway in the Canadian lawyer licensing system. Two of the country’s largest law societies have signalled the impending end of high-stakes, multiple-choice legal-knowledge ...

The Law Students Society of Ontario (the “LSSO”) recently surveyed Ontario law students to better understand the debt load experienced by them and its effect on them. The LSSO Report provides ...

“Her Majesty’s Counsel, learned in the law, for the Province of Alberta” The designation of Queen’s Counsel was bestowed recently on some members of the Alberta Bar. Though the tradition of ...

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Recidivism risk assessment is the process of determining the likelihood that an accused, convicted, or incarcerated persons will reoffend. The process is aimed at assisting in the determination of the ...

Recently RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki admitted she really didn’t understand the term “systemic racism” and later showed she was correct when she provided an old and obvious example of indirect ...