Please find below links to blog posts or articles authored by the Ottawa legal community in February.
Bankruptcy & Insolvency Law
Government Student Loans and Bankruptcy in Canada
– Rob de Toni, Merovitz Potechin LLP
Condominium Law
Are Condominium Residents Entitled to Privacy on the Common Elements?
– Christy Allen, Davidson Condo Law
Restrictions on Condominium Bank Accounts? Here’s Our Take
– James Davidson, Davidson Condo Law
What Happens If You’ve Delayed In Bringing a Court Claim? Here’s a Case That You Should Know About
– Christy Allen, Davidson Condo Law
Refusing to Allow Modifications to Common Elements Can Amount to Oppression
– Jocelyn Duquette, Condo Adviser
Are Condo Owners Entitled to Access the Owners’ Email List?
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser
Court Orders Owner to Enter into a Section 98 Agreement
– Jocelyn Duquette, Condo Adviser
Disclosure Statements: Say it Right and Say it Clearly
– Graeme Macpherson, Condo Adviser
Constitutional Law
Limits to the Attorney General’s Discretion
– Delaney’s Law Firm
Construction Law
Ontario’s New Prompt Payment Regime
– Roxie Graystone, Merovitz Potechin LLP
Criminal Law
February 2019 Criminal Law Round-Up
– Anne Marie McElroy, McElroy Law
Contextualizing Privacy: The Supreme Court’s Decision In R V. Jarvis
– Anne Marie McElroy, McElroy Law
Remediation agreements and other recent developments in white collar crime
– Glen Jennings, Matthew Doak, & Reem Zaia, Gowling WLG
Employment & Labour Law
ONCA Upholds Termination for Just Cause of Fiduciary
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains
Termination for “Cause” Provision Violates the ESA
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains
OLRB Rules That When it Comes to Severance it’s Ontario-Based Operations Alone
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains
Storing pornography on a work-issued laptop not “serious enough” to be cause for dismissal
– Paul Willetts, Vey Willetts LLP
Not Much to “Like”: Lessons from an Anti-Social Work Environment
– Paul Willetts, Vey Willetts LLP
Termination clause update: New developments concerning benefit continuation and just cause language
– Andrew Vey, Vey Willetts LLP
Ontario Announces Occupational Cancer Review
– Frank Van Dyke, Van Dyke Injury Law Blog
Federal government adopts “modern” labour standards
– André Poulin-Denis & Mark Josselyn, Gowling WLG
You Violated Employer Rules: Do You Still Need to Be Accommodated?
– Sean T. McGee, Nelligan O’Brien Payne
Changes to Labour Standards in Quebec – What Do You Need to Know?
– Lanise Hayes, Nelligan O’Brien Payne
Ontario’s Sex Education Curriculum: What Can the Law Do to Challenge a Government Policy Decision?
– Alayna Miller, Mann Lawyers
Matthews v Ocean Nutrition
– Nigel McKechnie, Mann Lawyers
Insurance Law
Travel Insurance: Are you covered?
– Najma Rashid, OTLA Blog
IP & Copyright Law
Canadian Trademark Changes – June 17, 2019
– Cynthia Mason, Momentum Law
Access Copyright v. York U – the Federal Court of Appeal Hearing is March 5 and 6, 2019
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
“Reclaiming Fair Use” by Aufderheide & Jaszi – My Treat During Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Piracy v. Privacy – The Federal Court Significantly Restores the Balance in Canadian Mass Copyright Litigation by Insisting on “Best Available Evidence”
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Access Copyright Post Secondary Tariffs – 2011-2013 & to 2014-2017 – Coming Soon to a Campus Near You?
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Blacklock’s, Spam, CRTC, and ATIP
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Benefits of industry group intervention in the Federal Court of Canada
– Marc Richard & Cole Meagher, Gowling WLG
Marketing Law
A New and Improved Advertiser Dispute Procedure by Ad Standards
– Mary G. Griffith, Maclaren Corlett
Practice Management
The price of collaboration
– Jordan Furlong, Law21
The reality of collaboration
– Jordan Furlong, Law21
The implications of crowdsourced justice
– Jordan Furlong, Law21
Law firms’ shopping mall problem
– Jordan Furlong, Law21
Security Law
Meng Extradition: What to Watch For
– Craig Forcese, National Security Law
Another Rule of Law Test in the Meng Extradition Matter
– Craig Forcese and Leah West, National Security Law
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!