At the hearing of the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Reference, SC 2017, c 3 [GNDA Reference], at the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) this month, Justice Brown asked the representative of the...
Consumers sign contracts to gain access to all kinds of goods and services, such as credit cards, cell-phone service, and internet. Increasingly, sellers and suppliers are putting arbitration clauses into...
Canadian organizations that rely on transborder data flows can breathe a little easier after a recent announcement out of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”). On September...
For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or “the Court”) headed to Winnipeg to hear cases on September 25 and 26, 2019. On Wednesday,...
Post 5/9 in TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series (Fall 2019) Introduction In 2014, Justice Clément Gascon was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or “the Court”) by then Prime...
Background On May 23, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) released its decision on R v Omar, 2019 SCC 32 [Omar SCC], which considered whether the Ontario Court of Appeal...
In the age of the Internet the distinction between public and private information has become blurred. The norms about what types of information are entitled to privacy on the Internet...
Last week, the Ontario Court of Appeal (“ONCA”) released a contentious, split decision in Toronto (City) v Ontario (Attorney General), 2019 ONCA 732 [Toronto] in which they adjudicated the constitutionality...
If Canada’s journalists were unable to uphold their promise to some sources that their identities were protected, many valuable stories with far-reaching implications could disintegrate, with no one to substantiate...
Post 4/9 in TheCourt.ca’s Judicial Biography Series (Fall 2019) Justice Andromache Karakatsanis is the Supreme Court of Canada’s (“the Court” or “SCC”) fourth most senior justice and one of four...
Consumers sign contracts to gain access to all kinds of goods and services, such as credit cards, cell-phone service, and internet. Increasingly, sellers and suppliers are putting arbitration clauses into...
At the hearing of the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Reference, SC 2017, c 3 [GNDA Reference], at the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) this month, Justice Brown asked the representative of the...
Canadian organizations that rely on transborder data flows can breathe a little easier after a recent announcement out of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”). On September...
For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or “the Court”) headed to Winnipeg to hear cases on September 25 and 26, 2019. On Wednesday,...
