The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the accessibility standards it contemplates are intended to create a barrier-free Ontario through the creation of a compliance-based rather than complaints-oriented system.

If you can say anything about the Law Society of Upper Canada bencher election campaign so far, it has at least been more vibrant than in the past.

Law firm mergers in recent months suggest there’s a new twist in the history of the legal profession. Will it be bigger or richer?

We’ve had two proposed budgets in the last two weeks but haven’t seen much in terms of investment in infrastructure for the justice system.

Once again, the federal government dropped the ball on climate change in its budget last week.

Lawyers are often criticized for being incomprehensible. Judges, if anything, are usually said to be even harder to understand.

Almost everyone who has been engaged in the trial process has wondered at times if having witnesses swear an oath or affirm to tell the truth makes it more likely that they will actually do so.

As outrage grows over repeated scandals and incompetence by public officials, governments are compounding the spending problems with what the public believes are outrageous severance packages for fired employees.

After many months of waiting to see what the Supreme Court of Canada would do with property division in common law relationships, lawyers got answers on Feb. 18 when Justice Thomas Cromwell, writing on behalf of a unanimous bench, expanded the law to make it easier for common law spouses to bring forward unjust enrichment claims upon the breakdown of a relationship.

In many ways, the Law Society of Upper Canada had good reason for denying law school star Ryan Manilla from becoming a lawyer.

As Wisconsin’s governor continued his massive and unfair assault on workers’ rights last week, Toronto Hydro Corp. launched a lawsuit to fight back against attempts to rein in compensation for its executives.

We knew that sooner or later, the chickens would be coming home to roost. It’s happening now. They’re going to be very expensive chickens.