The Law Society of Upper Canada’s audit committee says the governing body needs to trim the fat when it comes to professional regulation costs.“Perhaps we should look at whether it is possible to do professional regulation in a more efficient and cost-effective way,” Bencher Beth Symes, chairwoman...
Northern Ontario has inched closer to having its own law school after the Law Society of Upper Canada gave preliminary approval last week to a bid from Lakehead University.But, while the law society benchers voted overwhelmingly in support of the initiative by the Thunder Bay school, some voiced c...
Someone looking for the rules governing restrictions on cross-media ownership in the Canadian market could be forgiven for looking up the Competition Bureau. Their next choice would be the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and that would be more fruitful.
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OTTAWA — Two Supreme Court of Canada decisions saying police dog sniffing constitutes a search under Charter s. 8 are landmark rulings that separate Canadian and U.S. jurisprudence and affirm constitutional rights of high school students and travellers, say civil liberties lawyers.
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By Robert Todd | Publication Date: Monday, 05 May 2008
Northern Ontario has inched closer to having its own law school after the Law Society of Upper Canada gave preliminary approval last week to a bid from Lakehead University. But, while the law society benchers voted overwhelmingly in support of the initiative by the Thunder Bay school, some voiced concerns and voted against it.
By Tim Naumetz | Publication Date: Monday, 05 May 2008
OTTAWA — Two Supreme Court of Canada decisions saying police dog sniffing constitutes a search under Charter s. 8 are landmark rulings that separate Canadian and U.S. jurisprudence and affirm constitutional rights of high school students and travellers, say civil liberties lawyers.
Committee: trim fat off professional regulation costs
By Robert Todd | Publication Date: Monday, 05 May 2008
The Law Society of Upper Canada’s audit committee says the governing body needs to trim the fat when it comes to professional regulation costs. “Perhaps we should look at whether it is possible to do professional regulation in a more efficient and cost-effective way,” Bencher Beth Symes, chairwoman of the committee that presented LSUC’s audited financial statements for 2007 at Convocation’s April 24 meeting, tells Law Times in an interview.
By Adam Dodek | Publication Date: Monday, 05 May 2008
We have become a society focused on rights but we are amnesiacs when it comes to our responsibilities. We do acknowledge the idea of responsibility very well. Only it is the government’s responsibility . . . to ensure that our rights are protected of course.
By Julius Melnitzer | Publication Date: Monday, 05 May 2008
Someone looking for the rules governing restrictions on cross-media ownership in the Canadian market could be forgiven for looking up the Competition Bureau. Their next choice would be the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and that would be more fruitful.
LAFORME NAMED TO COMMISSION Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Harry LaForme will, as chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, lead an important commission that aims to shed some light on a dark time in Canadian history.
The commission is part of a settlement agreement and will look at how the Indian residential school legacy arose. The commission also will serve as a forum for those affected by the residential schools to tell their stories, in hopes of educating Canadians on a part of the country’s history that has largely remained unknown.
LaForme, the first aboriginal person named to sit on an appellate court in Canada, is a member of the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation, and was born and raised on his reserve. Some of his family members continue to live on the reserve.
He has collected several honours from the aboriginal community for his work: in 1997, he received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the area of law and justice, and on three occasions has been presented by aboriginal elders with an eagle feather, which symbolizes the virtues of honesty, integrity, and respect.
LaForme graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1979 and practised corporate-commercial law at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP before opening his own practice specializing in aboriginal law.
In 1989 he was named commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario, in 1991 was appointed chief commissioner of the Indian Specific Claims Commission on Aboriginal Land Claims, and in 1992 and 1993 taught a course on the rights of indigenous peoples at Osgoode. He also served in 1989 and 1990 as co-chairman of the National Chiefs Task Force on Native Land Claims.
“The decision clearly has significant impact for faith-based and other organizations that provide publicly funded services to the general public. The message is that these organizations have to ensure that their hiring policies and practices are not restrictive or exclusive when they are providing services to the broader public.”
— Raj Dhir, counsel, Ontario Human Rights Commission
