Please find below links to blog posts or articles authored by the Ottawa legal community in July and August.
Civil Litigation
Cleanup in Aisle 5: Recent Occupiers’ Liability Cases at Commercial Establishments
– Ashley Bennett & Caleb Timmermann, Soloway Wright LLP
Condominium Law
What Would I Change About Condo Law?
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP
Do Condos Have a Duty to Accommodate Disabled Residents?
– Kelli-Anne Day, Chuck Merovitz & Bram Potechin, Merovitz Potechin LLP
Court Upholds Condo Smoking Ban
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser
Can Condos Reimburse Budgetary Surpluses to Owners?
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser
Condos Must Step in When an Aggressive Owner Goes Too Far
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser
Are your Condo Fees Too High?
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser
An Update on Annual Fire Code Testing
– Andrea Daly, Davidson Houle Allen LLP
Can New Condominium Corporations Get Out of Their Cost-Sharing Obligations for Shared Facilities?
– David Lu, Davidson Houle Allen LLP
Email Messages Are Not Condominium Records
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP
Owners Are Not Entitled to Email Addresses of Other Owners
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP
Gender Inclusivity
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP
A Condominium Corporation’s Access Rights
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP
Construction Law
Bonding with the Queen over construction projects
– Louis-Pierre Grégoire, Gowling WLG
ADR Chambers Appointed Authorized Naming Authority
– David Contant, Nelligan O’Brien Payne
Criminal Law
MCLNugget: Ibrahim ONCA
– Dallas Mack, Mack’s Criminal Law
MCLNugget: CC ONSC
– Dallas Mack, Mack’s Criminal Law
MCLNugget: PN ONCA
– Dallas Mack, Mack’s Criminal Law
CCTV Cameras Don’t Deter Crime, So Why Does Ottawa Want Them?
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP
More Is Needed Than Judicial Education for Sexual Assault Law
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP
Baseball Bean Balls as a Crime
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP
Newly Released Documents Show Doug Ford Lied about Legal Aid
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP
Employment & Labour Law
Fixed-term contract costs employer $1.2 million in severance
– Andrew Vey, Vey Willetts LLP
Labour arbitrator grants interim protection for complainant of workplace sexual harassment
– Andrew Vey, Vey Willetts LLP
Employee’s tweets about confidential settlement payments cost him $50,000.00
– Paul Willetts, Vey Willetts LLP
Employee Has Right to Change Mind about Resignation: ONCA
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains
Conscionability of Release Not Appropriate for Resolution by Summary Judgment
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains
Bill C-81: new accessibility obligations are here for federal entities
– André Poulin-Denis, Gowling WLG
Restructuring tools to minimize the risk of successful constructive dismissal claims
– Mark Josselyn, Gowling WLG
Cheating, Lying, Impaired, Fraudster….Surely This is Just Cause for Termination?
– Colleen Hoey, Mann Lawyers
Early 2019 Judicial Updates that affect Employers
– Alan Riddell & Kyle Van Schie, Soloway Wright LLP
Environmental Law
How to Deal with Carbon Pricing
– Roxie Graystone, Merovitz Potechin LLP
Family Law
Custody and Access: The Impact of Religion
– Jennifer Reynolds, Fresh Legal
Updates to the Divorce Act
– Jeff Jeffcott, Low Murchison Radnoff LLP
Food & Beverage Law
CFIA serves up next course of consultations on food labelling modernization
– Victoria Antoinette Asikis & Katrina Coughlin, Gowling WLG
Access to Interprovincial Trade in Alcohol Improving
– John Siwiec & Trent McBain, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP
IP & Copyright Law
Publication of the finalized Patent Rules, and announcement of coming-into-force date
– Glen Deleavey & Trevor Newton, Gowling WLG
Canada’s Trademark applications for marijuana products and services cause an international stir at the Nice Committee of Experts
– Kimberley Baillie, Gowling WLG
Voltage Turns Up the Voltage & Appeals the Rogers Reimbursement Ruling
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Blacklock’s Tendentious and Tenacious Litany of Litigation – the Latest (Lack of) Developments
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Retransmission – Mission Accomplished?
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Canadian Copyright Mass Litigation – Reasonable Reimbursement for Norwich Order Compliance
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright
Dazed and Confused: A closer look at the Amended Patented Medicines Regulations
– Alexander Camenzind & Cole Meagher, Gowling WLG
PMPRB shakeup – United States and Switzerland no longer relevant countries
– Alexander Camenzind & Cole Meagher, Gowling WLG
Practice Management
Collaboration
– K. Scott McLean, Mann Lawyers
How to save the lawyer development system
– Jordan Furlong, Law21
Thrown from a Boat
– K. Scott McLean, Mann Lawyers
Summer School: Civility
– K. Scott McLean, Mann Lawyers
The W5 of Mentorship
– K. Scott McLean, Mann Lawyers
Tax Law
Transfer pricing: What’s new in Canada (Part I)
– Jim Wilson & Nathan Jin Bao, Gowling WLG
Collito: Timing Issues Related to the Collection Provisions of the Income Tax Act
– Alanna Mar, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP
Tech Law
Enhanced disclosure for virtual currency will soon be mandatory in Canada
– Shaela W. Rae & Mandy Van Waes, Gowling WLG
Emerging legal issues in an AI-driven world
– Todd J. Burke & Scarlett Trazo, Gowling WLG
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!