In early 2025, I participated in the Society for Experiential Education’s Experiential Education Academy. One of the sessions I attended focused on reflection, one of the eight principles of good ...

There is a story about a business owner, we will call him Joe, who hired two people to help him unload large barrels of wine. The wine was very expensive and he specifically instructed the workers to ...

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 ...

Described as everything from an ecosystem to a fourth level of government, a condo community can be representative of society on a much larger scale. This is a brief examination of what happens when ...

The successful lawyers I speak with know that exceptional legal skills are table stakes. Beyond the law, their differentiator is their ability to build relationships, attract ideal clients, and ...

If mediation is meant to provide a genuine opportunity to resolve disputes, why do so many mediation briefs read like pleadings and offer little value to the process? This article examines the ...

Recently, I was tasked with a particularly complicated legal research question which involved one of my favorite topics: capital cities. The information and analysis we needed was only available to us ...

It is rare that a term of imprisonment is given for breach of a Court Order, such as an injunction. The Federal Court issued an Anton Pillar order in a case of copyright infringement involving a ...

You’re running a fever and have been coughing for the past few days, so you head down to your local clinic. You wait and wait, and finally the receptionist calls your name. Walking into the ...

Court data is an important source of information that can increase our understanding of justice system issues. Research is currently under way at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Canadian Forum on ...

This is a rule from the Model Code of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. The commentaries to the rule identify a more specific component duty to defend judges and other tribunal members from ...

Over the last few columns, I have focused primarily on the regulation side of my work in artificial intelligence (AI) risk and regulation. That focus has reflected, in part, my concern about the ...