January, 2018

• Master bars lawyer from case involving his own firm

  A lawyer is warning that solicitor-client privilege may be threatened by a master’s decision that barred him from representing his own firm in a dispute over a wrongful dismissal claim.

• OCA nixes cost awards against lawyer

  The Ontario Court of Appeal has reversed a judge’s order that a Kitchener-Waterloo lawyer should pay $100,000 in costs personally in a child welfare case.

• Tribunal finds lawyer committed misconduct

  A Law Society of Ontario tribunal has found a real estate lawyer committed professional misconduct by misappropriating more than $1 million.

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  AI needs debate about potential bias

  Artificial intelligence — or, at a high level, computer systems that are self-learning and self-executing — is introducing profound efficiencies to the legal industry by automating an increasing number of tasks traditionally performed by legal professionals.

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  Editorial Obiter

  Language rights

  When one is not a French speaker or living or practising inside Quebec or other areas of French-speaking Canada, it might be easy to lose sight of the importance of French-speaking judges and French legal services.

• No dramatic shift in police treatment of pot

  The legalization of possessing small amounts of cannabis for recreational use is a campaign promise that the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is following through on since it was elected in the fall of 2015.

• Heightened stock market interest in cannabis persists

  Earlier this month, some online brokerages in Canada received numerous complaints from customers about delays in placing trades and temporary outages.

• Pot ad rules to be stricter than alcohol marketing

  The means of purchasing cannabis legally will soon be no different for people 19 years and older in Ontario than that of beer, wine or spirits.

• Government-run pot stores coming

  The Ontario government is promising to open 40 government-run cannabis stores in more than a dozen municipalities once federal legislation is enacted later this year to permit the sale of the product for recreational use.

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  Monday, January 15, 2018

  
  New Legal Clinic
  
  Anti-Money-Laundering Rules
  
  Bryant Joins CCLA
  
  Law Times Poll
  

• Jan 15, 2018

  

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