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Current news, cases, and ideas affecting law and practice.

 I know that [defence consel]'s brilliant, lofty and engaging argument deserves better treatment by me.

This post by the editor of the Index to Canadian Legal Literature describes a number of new types of material now included in the Index.

This post summarizes a recent BC Supreme Court case which addressed whether a school was contributorily negligent for a tort committed by a student.

Elliott v. R. | 2013 CarswellNat 2540 (T.C.C.) | Boyle J

It is trite to say that that making a living is a stressful activity and that much of life can be nasty and brutish.

The Combating Counterfeit Products Act, S.C. 2014. c. 32 provides Canada Border Services Agency with authority to take action against commercial movement of counterfeit goods at border and adds new criminal offences relating to counterfeit goods.

An appeal court issued its first decision regarding the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines and provided a detailed standard of review analysis.

This post summarizes a recent BC Provincial Court case which discusses the need for creative sentences in cases involving first time offenders.

This post explains how legal researchers can use westlaw Canada's new auto-suggest feature to find cases by name even faster and more efficiently.

In self-represented litigation, the "pleadings" rarely reflect meaningful details of the issues to be tried.

This post provides an update on recent changes to the Estate Administration Tax Act, 1998 in Ontario.

This post summarizes a recent case in which several journalists were found to have defamed a climate researcher.