In announcing its intention to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to assess the constitutionality of a planned national securities regulator, the federal government risks inflaming an already smoldering battle with Quebec.

In January 2010, the jurisdictional limit in Small Claims Court is rising to $25,000 from $10,000 in Ontario.
Surprisingly, there seems to be a backlash in the legal community.

I read with interest two articles in the Sept. 28, 2009, edition of Law Times. On page 6, Rosalind Conway wrote about the problems criminal defence counsel are experiencing with the legal aid system.

OTTAWA – It’s partisanship, not ideology, that has marked Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s appointments to the bench.

In a recent documentary, CBC’s The Fifth Estate highlighted yet more problems with Canada’s record on enforcing airport safety rules.

Anyone advising shareholders of private corporations needs to pay heed to the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Frye v. Frye Estate.

How would you like to make $65,000 annually after 10 years of practice?

Two South Africans in Canada made international headlines recently when they successfully asserted that whites are a persecuted minority in their native country.

I read with interest Vern Krishna’s column [“A small, but significant, step in access to justice,” Sept. 7, 2009] in which he stated that the creation of a new law school in British Columbia, and the resulting increase in the number of practising lawyers, will improve access to justice by reducing the costs of legal services.

Henry Freitag knows his issues well. Having fought the Town of Penetanguishene a decade ago in his battle to get his municipal council to stop reciting the Lord’s Prayer, he’s in a good position to lead his current bid to get politicians there to abolish such religious observances altogether.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has a new target in the Conservative government’s long-running bid to clamp down on crime.

In his editorial about the censorship powers of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Glenn Kauth calls free-speech advocates in Canada “right-wingers.”