Upcoming WestlawNext Training

We’d be lying if we said WestlawNext wasn’t one of our favourite things. We’d also be lying if we said that our WestlawNext trainer wasn’t one of our favourite people! So we love to hold training sessions in the library for a multitude of reasons.

Here’s our next one! As always these are free and all are welcome, and can count towards 1 hour of professionalism content if you still need those CPD hours.

When: Wednesday, November 22, 2017, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Where: CCLA Library, 161 Elgin St. Suite 2004

This program contains ­1.0 Professionalism Hour which can be used as credit towards your annual requirements.

The Thomson Reuters Customer Learning Team has been approved as an Accredited Provider of Professionalism Content by The Law Society of Upper Canada.

Please RSVP at the ‘register’ link here!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Bloom v. Bloom (2017 ONSC 6555)
spousal support — income — variation — marriage — separation
Justice J. Audet

Makdissi v. Masson (2017 ONSC 6498)
children — extraordinary expenses — income — tuition — postsecondary
Justice C. MacLeod

Jones v. Jones (2017 ONSC 6496)
matrimonial home — value — separation — property — marriage
Justice P. Roger

M.D. v. A.C. (2017 ONSC 6260)
marriage contract — spousal support — draft — financial disclosure — indicated
Justice T. Engelking

Civil Matters

Loy-English v. The Ottawa Hospital et al. (2017 ONSC 6533)
medical actions — intervene — solicitors — proceeding — negligence
Justice C. Hackland

7321201 Canada Ltd. v. Intact Insurance Company (2017 ONSC 6480)
independent adjuster — building — motion to set aside — email — settlement proposal
Justice S. Corthorn

Mahmood Wali Mahmad v. Ottawa Police Services Board et al. (2017 ONSC 6276)
without leave to amend — pleading — struck — otions — strike
Justice M. O’Bonsawin

Eliot Shore v. Capital Sports Properties Inc. et al. (2017 ONSC 6271)
pleading — without leave to amend — otions — strike — controversy between the litigants
Justice M. O’Bonsawin

MNP Ltée. v. Armorer (2017 ONSC 6268)
fees — partnership assets — proceeds of the liquidation — stakeholders — amount
Justice R. Beaudoin

Criminal Matters

R. v. Sharmake Egueh (2017 ONSC 6293)
sureties — must — victim — bail — conditions
Justice M. O’Bonsawin

R. v. Ader (2017 ONSC 6263)
contested information — disclosure — receive a fair — adjournment — defence
Justice R. Smith

R. v. J.O. (2017 ONCJ 704)
apartment — mug — elevator — video — consenting
Justice P. Doody

Ottawa Blog Roll: October 2017

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

Civil Litigation

Court of Appeal Gives Thumbs Down to Dog Bite Plaintiff
– Mitch Kitagawa and Joshua Vickery, Kelly Santini LLP

License suspensions mulled for distracted driving in Ontario
– Quinn Thiele Mineault Grodzki LLP

Insurers Not Obliged to Advise Insured of Appeal Deadlines
– Frank Van Dyke, Van Dyke Injury Law Blog

Condominium Law

The Forms Under the New Condo Act Are Out!
– Jocelyn Duquette, Condo Adviser

Condo Managers will be Required to Provide Police Record Checks
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser

Condo Learning this Month – Learning and Networking Opportunities
– Rod Escayola, Condo Adviser

Important Court Decision About Recovering Costs From Owners
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Changes Are Almost Here…Important Dates To Keep In Mind
– Cheryll Wood, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Appeal Court Confirms Owner’s Obligation to Prove Case When Challenging Lien
– Victoria Craine, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Examination of Records – Do Condominium Owners Need a Proper Reason?
– James Davidson, Davidson Houle Allen LLP

Corporate Commercial Law

Amendments to the Ontario Corporations Act
– Paul Franco, Mann Lawyers LLP

Support for Small Cideries in Ontario – An Overview of the 2017-2018 Small Cidery Program Guidelines
– Paul A. Lalonde, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP/s.r.l

Criminal Law

Limited Use Doctrine Defined…Again
– Dallas Mack, Mack’s Criminal Law

Effective Assistance – Tactical Dispute
– Dallas Mack, Mack’s Criminal Law

October 2017 Criminal Law Round-Up
– Anne Marie McElroy, McElroy Law

Liberals Break Two and a Half Promises with New Pot Laws
– Michael Spratt, Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP

Employment & Labour Law

Scissors Beat Paper; Statutes Beat Scissors: Severability Clauses Can’t Fix Illegal Termination Provisions
– Sean Bawden, Labour Pains

Bad faith dismissal: is medical evidence required to prove damages?
– Andrew Vey, Vey Willetts LLP

North v. Metaswitch Networks: Ontario’s Top Court Confirms the Correct Approach to Employee Severance
– Paul Willetts, Vey Willetts LLP

#MeToo: Workplace Harassment
– Megan Cornell, Momentum Law

Indigenous Law

Federal vs Provincial – Whose Legislative Authority Is It Anyway?
– Michel Nolet, Nelligan O’Brien Payne

IP & Copyright Law

Toronto Neighbourhood Heats Up Over Copyright Battle
– Adam M. Tracey, Nelligan O’Brien Payne

Submissions Posted on Canada’s Copyright Board – the Consultation Process
– Howard Knopf, Excess Copyright

Proposed Amendments to the Canadian Patent Rules
– Solomon Gold, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP/s.r.l

Practice Management

Changing the lawyer assessment system
– Jordan Furlong, Law21

Diversonomics | Season 2 Episode 4 – Re-training the brain (Pt 1): The road to work after concussion
– Roberto Aburto & Sarah Willis, Gowling WLG

Diversonomics | Season 2 Episode 5 – Re-training the brain (Pt 2): Employee-employer dynamics when dealing with concussion
– Roberto Aburto & Sarah Willis, Gowling WLG

Real Estate Law

Decreased rental real estate following new rent controls
– Merovitz Potechin LLP

 

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

#ThrowbackThursday: Happy Birthday, CBC!

I can’t be the only person who sees reference to an old piece of legislation and then wants to look it up for themselves. When I saw today’s date – November 2 – listed as parliament passing the Canadian Broadcasting Act, I immediately jumped over to HeinOnline to look at the statute from the source law. I was disappointed to see that this information was a bit misleading – The Canadian Broadcasting Act, 1936 was assented to in June 1936.

Page one of SC 1936 c. 24. (If you’d like a copy of the whole act, let us know!)

The CBC did, however, go live to air on November 2, 1936, replacing its predecessor the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (which itself replaced CNR Radio). Two days after, on November 4, a formal welcome was given by CBC Chairman Leonard Brockington – you can listen to this 15 minute clip on the CBC Archives.

 

Lexis Advance Quicklaw: Upgrade to Finding the Halsbury’s Laws of Canada

If you’ve used Lexis Advance Quicklaw lately, you’ll notice a new feature to the home screen: the “Explore Content” box beneath the search bar.

 

 

This box is still new, and continued enhancements to it are sure to follow, but for now I think it’s a really great tool to highlight the Halsbury’s Laws of Canada, which are available within Quicklaw. The Halsbury’s series is a great introduction to many different legal topics, featuring titles by leading authors in their respective areas of law.

Prior to this new “Explore Content” box, finding the full set of the Halsbury’s was a bit difficult. Now, it couldn’t be easier. When you enter Quicklaw at the CCLA library on any of our public computers, the box will be almost at the top of the screen. Just click where it says Halsbury’s Laws of Canada

 

 

 

And you’ll be brought to a nice and tidy page containing a list of all of the  titles.

 

You can click on any of the titles in blue, and be brought to the table of contents for that book, as well as a search box that will search that title of Halsbury’s alone. As an example, here is the screen for the Halsbury’s Law of Canada – Aboriginal Law:

 

 

I love any feature that makes browsing available materials in a database easier, so this to me is a really great upgrade. Check it out next time you’re in the CCLA Library!

New Titles – October 2017

The titles below have recently been added to the New Books section in the library. Come take a browse the next time you visit!

Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2017 (Carswell)

The Art of Collective Bargaining, 3rd ed. (Canada Law Book)

Canadian Family Law, 7th ed.  (Irwin Law)

The Law and Practice of Workplace Investigations (Emond Publishing)

Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law, 9th ed. (Carswell)

Prosecuting and Defending Sexual Offence Cases: A Practitioner’s Handbook (Emond Publishing)

The Written Contract of Employment (Emond Publishing)

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Willis v. Saunders (2017 ONSC 6110)
posting — spousal support — enrichment — relationship — career
Justice T. Engelking

Armstrong v. Vanneste (2017 ONSC 5835)
child — access — school — material change — best interests
Justice R. Ryan Bell

Pye v. Pye (2017 ONSC 6032)
father s motion to change — spousal support — arrears — orders — pay
Justice H. Williams

E.B.H., v. E. H. (2017 ONSC 5233)
post-secondary education — support — child — amount — expenses
Justice C. MacLeod

Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa v. L.F. (2017 ONSC 5971)
maternal grandparents — children — adoptive — boys — status review application
Justice J. Blishen

Civil Matters

Levitz v. Hillel Lodge Long Term Care Foundation (2017 ONSC 6253)
evidence — destroyed — estate — deceased — intestacy
Justice R. Ryan Bell

Bisumbule c. Conway (2017 ONSC 6080)
dépens — représenté — indemnisation — règle — allègue
Justice M. O’Bonsawin

Jon Jessie William Driscoll v. Driscoll et al. (2017 ONSC 6079)
costs — attendance at cross-examination — preparation — indemnity
Justice M. O’Bonsawin

Thomas Jeffrey Kearns v. Brayman et al. (2017 ONSC 6078)
reasonable — indemnity costs — fees — rule — offer
Justice M. O’Bonsawin

Adjeleian v. Ottawa (City) (2017 ONSC 6160)
squash — occupier — belief — premises — glass
Justice R. Ryan Bell

Davis v. Aviva Canada Inc. (2017 ONSC 6173)
purpose test — vehicle — fluid — well-known activities to which automobiles — windshield
Justice C. Hackland

McPherson v. Napior (2017 ONSC 5934)
loan — unconscionable — loans — debtor must show — mortgage
Justice C. Hackland

Christopher Callow v. Tammy Zollinger et al. (2017 ONSC 5992)
misnomer — name — motion — named — amend
Justice M. O’Bonsawin

Criminal Matters

R. v. H.E. (2017 ONSC 4277)
bedroom — beyond a reasonable doubt — neck — grabbed — evidence
Justice R. Smith

R. v. Pahle (2017 ONSC 6164)
warrant — child pornography — subscriber information — officer — search
Justice A. Doyle

R. v. N.K. (2017 ONSC 5931)
offender — sentence — sexual assault — threatening to kill an animal — prison
Justice C. MacLeod

R v. Clarke (2017 ONSC 6044)
phone calls — letters — calls from an unknown number — harassment — jail
Justice S. Gomery

R. v. Barra and Govindia (2017 ONSC 6008)
presumptive ceiling — delay — extradition process — discrete event — preliminary inquiry
Justice M. Labrosse

R. v. Georges (2017 ONCJ 681)
driver’ s seat — cupholder — realistic risk of danger — keys — parked
Justice P. Doody

Court of Appeal Decisions of Local Interest

R. v. Scharf (2017 ONCA 794)
cocaine — bathroom — intruders — toilet — flush
Justices S. Pepall, M. Benotto, and I. Nordheimer

New on CanLII: Browne v. Dunn

A small ripple of excitement went up on legal Twitter yesterday when CanLII announced that a copy of the seminal case Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67 (H.L.) was now available for free online. This case has plagued Canadian law libraries somewhat over the years – it’s incredibly important, regularly cited, and before now, not freely available anywhere. Many libraries, ours included, had an old photocopied version kicking around for when it was needed. Thanks to the Great Library at the LSUC, a copy is now up on CanLII. Enjoy!

vLex Canada Tip: Canada Gazette Part II

Ever get mired down in trying to dig up old federal regulations on the government’s antiquated Canada Gazette Archives? Fortunately, vLex Canada is here to help with that. Following our previous tips on Irwin Law Essentials and MLB Topics, today we’ll have a quick look on how to find older regulations in Part II of the Canada Gazette, now available on the new vLex Canada platform.

The easiest way to get to the Gazette from the vLex homepage is to click on “Browse” in the lefthand toolbar. From there, click on the “List of Sources” tab in the top under the search bar, and you will come to a screen like the following. The Canada Gazette is one of the first listed, with the French equivalent Gazette du Canada found a little further down.

Clicking on the Gazette will bring you straight to the most recently published edition. To find older editions, simply click the “Older Issues” button in the righthand sidebar, and it will pop up with an option to select which month you are interested in:

As you can see, coverage on the platform goes back to January 1998.

After selecting the issue you are interested in, a table of contents will open where you can click through to the Regulation that you are looking for.

Perhaps what is best about all this though, is that search bar at the top of the page. If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, you can search through all the available issues of the Canada Gazette by using the search with the Gazette filter on. This provides better functionality than the official government website for the same – plus the clean interface of vLex’s platform which is much easier on the eyes!

 

Resource Spotlight: The Criminal Law Series by Emond Publishing

We’ve written about books from Emond Publishing before on Robeside Assistance, and we wanted to do so again to feature a relatively new series they have available. With the first book in the series published just last year, Emond has launched their “Criminal Law Series.” This series, currently up to four published titles, features easy to read and concise books on many aspects of the criminal justice system and criminal law practice, authored by both defence and Crown counsel. These books are geared toward the criminal law practitioner, and would be superb for anyone new to this area of law or would like a refresher.

Just last week, we received their newest entry to the series – Prosecuting and Defending Sexual Offence Cases: A Practitioner’s Handbook. To check out more about this book, including a summary table of contents, click here. This book joins other titles we’ve previously purchased, on youth criminal justice, extradition, and criminal appeals. The next titles to be published are scheduled to be on digital evidence and fraud cases, and we’re greatly looking forward to adding those to the collection.  If you’d like to review any of these books at our library, you’ll find these in the criminal law section of the Texts collection (or just ask us as the front desk!).