TORONTO — Canada's so-called rape-shield law, which aims to protect sexual-assault complainants from unfair and irrelevant scrutiny of their sex lives, cannot be used to ... Read more

A case involving a justice of the peace fired for interfering in an assault matter in which his partner was the alleged victim is a rarity but “scary” nonetheless, ... Read more

It is unrealistic in this day and age to think that jurors won’t conduct their own internet research during a trial, Toronto critical injury lawyer Dale Orlando tells ... Read more

Kicking family members out of your house is typically easier than getting rid of tenants, Toronto civil litigator Sarah O’Connor tells AdvocateDaily.com . News outlets ... Read more

A new law that increases the maximum penalty for impaired driving will have a “disproportionate” impact on immigrant offenders, Toronto immigration lawyer Robin ... Read more

Canada still has a long way to go to bring clarity to the laws governing reproductive issues, Toronto fertility lawyer Sara Cohen tells Law Times . Cohen, founder of ... Read more

ST. THOMAS, Ont. — A nurse who killed elderly patients in her care was disciplined several times over poor job performance but no one thought she was seriously harming ... Read more

An Ontario Court of Appeal decision upholding a pair of ski resort waivers is a boon for insurers and a bust for public safety, Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish tells ... Read more

Reflecting on the past four years as the Law Society of Ontario's (LSO) independent Complaints Resolution Commissioner, Toronto mediator and arbitrator Bernard ... Read more

When assessing spousal sponsorship applications, Canadian immigration authorities tend to apply their cultural biases as to what constitutes a genuine relationship, Toronto ... Read more

Toronto civil litigator Stephany Mandin tells Law Times she’s optimistic that last month’s enactment of Bill 139 will help balance a municipality’s power ... Read more

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) says the federal prison service has failed to ensure its psychological assessment tools are fair to Indigenous inmates. In a ... Read more

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has reaffirmed the right of counsel to engage in fearless advocacy by quashing a finding of professional misconduct against a lawyer, Toronto ... Read more

By Marcus Sixta When parents are in the process of divorce or separation, sometimes children may express a desire to live with one parent over another. If this occurs in a family law case, ... Read more

By Joseph Neuberger According to the Government of Canada, the increasing number of overdoses and deaths caused by opioids has become a national public health crisis. In an effort to protect ... Read more

By Céline Dostaler When charged with a criminal offence some individuals believe that they can defend themselves in court, but once they realize the difficulty of the court system they seek ... Read more

By Doug MacLeod You have just been terminated. You have been given a week or so to accept a severance package but you don’t know if it is fair. That is where we come in. We tell you ... Read more

By Jennifer Samara Shuber Couples might be hesitant about entering marriage contracts out of fear that a contract pre-supposes the demise of a relationship. I prefer to look at marriage contracts as a ... Read more

By Bram Lecker and Simon Pelsmakher For most of us, a secure job is one of the most important pillars in our life. It is a mainstay to financial security. Our employment laws are written ... Read more

By Christopher Achkar The topic of marijuana at the workplace is of particular importance nowadays. On July 1, 2018, the Canadian government plans to introduce an amendment to Bill 174, the ... Read more

By John Navarrete “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference” – Aristotle Even over two thousand years later, Aristotle’s words ring true. While ... Read more

By Suzana Popovic-Montag One of the challenges with demographic trends is that they tend to fly under the radar until they are suddenly upon us. Ensuring there is adequate care for our aging ... Read more

By Andrew Feldstein In this case , the parties began living together in 2000, married in 2002. The parties have two children together. The parties separated, with no reasonable prospect of ... Read more

By Lisa Laredo Power of attorney (POA) documents are incredibly important. Without them, should you no longer be mentally or physically capable of making decisions on your own, the courts ... Read more

By Barry B. Fisher In this case , the master had a situation where the dispute centred around the basis for how the employer could alter the plaintiff’s commission plan. The plaintiff ... Read more

By Laura Williams On May 7, 2018, the Ontario government passed a new regulation under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (the ESA) that will reverse the changes made to the calculation of ... Read more