A Windsor, Ont. law firm has been removed as solicitors of record in a $6.3-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit launched by former Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital spokeswoman Kim Spirou after the Superior Court of Justice found the firm repeatedly ignored several conflicts of interest between one of its lawyers and the hospital’s former CEO, Warren Chant.

Putting the federal government in charge of incarceration for sentences that are longer than six months, upgrading or replacing 117 deteriorating courthouses, and diverting less complex cases away from the province’s courts are just some of the changes cash-strapped Ontario will have to make if it hopes to avoid doubling its deficit by 2017-18, economist Don Drummond warned last week.

The Superior Court of Justice has struck down a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruling that found the Peel Law Association discriminated against two Toronto lawyers and an articling student during a confrontation in 2008.

As far as David Scott is concerned, access to justice is the legal profession’s equivalent of global warming.

Former attorney general Michael Bryant has left Norton Rose Canada LLP to become chief executive officer of Humilitus Group Ltd.

The Ontario government is coming under fire for cutting several positions at the Ministry of the Attorney General as its various unions battle over a secret additional wage increase negotiated for some employees only.

Nearly two years after it changed the rules governing the Small Claims Court, the province’s plan to make the so-called people’s court more accessible by increasing the monetary jurisdiction is facing a number of challenges, including delays and an increased caseload involving more complicated matters, according to lawyers and paralegals who do work there.

The Law Society of Upper Canada has established a working group to look into concerns about its continuing professional development requirement after some lawyers complained that aspects of the fledgling policy were “repetitive” and “limiting.”

Tweeting the location of a police RIDE check for drunk drivers could land someone in prison, says a Toronto criminal defence lawyer.

The federal government appointed 11 judges to the Ontario Superior Court last year who had recently made donations to the governing Conservative party, an analysis of Elections Canada data reveals.

At least one Ontario court location has decided not to implement Rule 48 of the Rules of Civil Procedure this month after concerns about bureaucratic red tape and confusion over its wording cast a chill over the change that threatened to cause dismissals of a wave of civil actions.

A new decision by the Law Society of Upper Canada that considered a black lawyer’s disadvantage in his articling experiences could hold the key to a frank discussion on systemic discrimination in the profession, according to lawyers familiar with the ruling.