TheCourt.ca is very pleased to reproduce the decisions of the Women’s Court of Canada. In 2004, this group of feminist/equality Charter activists, lawyers, and academics, decided to do something about what they saw as the sorry state of equality jurisprudence under s. 15. Their solution – rewrite the key decisions of the Supreme Court of [...]

A mysterious cheque in the mail, a sartorially savvy businessman, and non-stick oven pans are some of the factual debris in BMP Global Distribution v. Bank of Nova Scotia, 2009 SCC 15, the latest case to be decided by the Supreme Court. At the centre of the case, however, is a simple question of banking [...]

For financial management company Merrill Lynch, it seems the bad news just keeps on coming. It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks for Merrill Lynch. Already battered and reeling from a series of large writedowns stemming from the subprime crisis, the current credit crunch proved too much for the company to bear as the Wall [...]

At the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) annual meeting last week, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson was asked how he intends to solve a national legal aid problem. After a decade of cutbacks and neglect, provinces now offer less legal aid services and have instituted higher eligibility criteria. A number of lawyers pressed the Minister to devise [...]

Is the justice system blind to colour? Jim Rankin and Betsy Powell of the Toronto Star pose this question in an article that is part of the newspaper’s series on Crime and Punishment. The series explores “the state of crime and punishment in Canada, including the social costs of mandatory minimum sentences, in a series [...]

Remember the famous scene from the movie “Jerry McGuire” where sports agent Jerry has just been fired by his agency and is in his office frantically trying to contact all of his clients in a futile attempt to retain their business? Unfortunately for Jerry, his rival agent, Bob Sugar, has already prepared for this and [...]