Please find below links to blog posts or articles authored by the Ottawa legal community in July.

Condominium Law

New Tribunal Rules on Owners Accessing Condominium Records
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser

Should Condo Owners be Able to Get Information About Other Owners?
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser

Corporations Must Act Fast When Condo Owners Requisition a Meeting of Owners
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser

New Tax on Airbnb Rentals in Ottawa
– Christy Allen, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Vexatious Litigant Not Precluded From Accessing Condominium Authority Tribunal
– Jessica Weick, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Dispute Over Flower Box Leads to Expensive Litigation
– Jessica Weick, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

The Effect Of The New Construction Act On Condominiums In Ontario
– David Lu, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Collecting Chargebacks Will Soon Become More Of A Challenge
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Construction Law

Construction Lien Act Amendments, Part 3 – Lien, Holdback, and Trust Rules
– Bryce Dillon & Keith Maclaren, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP/s.r.l.

What you need to know about the new changes to the Construction Lien Act
– David Contant, Nelligan O’Brien Payne

Corporate Commercial Law

Good Faith in Contractual Negotiations and Performance – Civil vs Common Law
– Robert Bissonnette, Mann Lawyers

Criminal Law

Full Disclosure: Setting The (Fictional) Record Straight
– Anne Marie McElroy, McElroy Law

July 2018 Criminal Law Round-Up
– Anne Marie McElroy, McElroy Law

AG Mulroney’s Big Debut is a Throwback Fail
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP

On Gun Violence, Jim Watson and John Tory Shoot from the Lip
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP

Employment & Labour Law

Receipt of LTD Evidence of Frustration
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains

The Right to Purreavement Leave in Ontario
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains

Family Caregiver Leave in Ontario
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains

Putting on the Brakes: Ontario courts are limiting the scope of post-dismissal mitigatory earnings
– Andrew Vey, Vey Willetts LLP

Ontario Court Creates New Protection for Complainants of Workplace Sexual Harassment
– Andrew Vey, Vey Willetts LLP

Family Law

Can an embryo be treated as “property”?
– Erin Lepine & Paul Taylor-Sussex, Nelligan O’Brien Payne

When will a court order “double dipping”?
– Daniel Duyvelshoff, Fresh Legal

Food & Beverage Law

Bait and switch? Incorporation by reference of front of pack labelling symbols
– Lewis Retik, Gowling WLG

Eat your cannabis and have it too: Edibles will present unique regulatory challenges
– Laura E. Gomez & Megan Martins, Gowling WLG

IP & Copyright Law

Tough break? KitKat and the fight over those four fingers
– Wing Yan & Paul Taylor-Sussex, Nelligan O’Brien Payne

Some Notes About Recent Developments at the Copyright Board of Canada
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright

Nice Classification in the Age of Globalization
– Kimberley Baillie, Gowling WLG

Land surveys: who owns the copyright?
– Paul Taylor-Sussex, Bryan Thaw, & Wing Yan, Nelligan O’Brien Payne

Food Delivery Apps – Good for Business?
– Paul Taylor-Sussex, Nelligan O’Brien Payne

Practice Management

The cause of, and solution to
– Jordan Furlong, Law21

Hope vs. experience in California
– Jordan Furlong, Law21

Who really owns your law firm?
– Jordan Furlong, Law21

Security Law

“9/11esque” Tweets and the Saudi Spat
– Craig Forcese, National Security Law

Oh, What Tangled Webs the CSIS Act Weaves: The Federal Court’s Latest Decision on CSIS’s Foreign Intelligence Mandate
– Craig Forcese, National Security Law

Threading the Needle: Structural Reform & Canada’s Intelligence-to-Evidence Dilemma
– Craig Forcese, National Security Law

Supreme Court

2018: The SCC mid-year review – How’s it going so far?
– D. Lynne Watt, Gowling WLG

Trade Law

Negotiation, Not Litigation is the Way to NAFTA Modernization
– Gordon LaFortune, Canadian Trade Law Blog

We include highlights of recent posts and articles from Ottawa-area blogs that are of substantive value to the legal community. Did we miss one? Let us know!

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