ADR
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January 28, 2022
Alberta hits brakes on traffic court changes
Alberta has paused its plans to shake up traffic court, proposals which have led to an outcry by lawyers in the province that the changes would ignore due process and create barriers for people who may want to challenge the tickets they have received.
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December 14, 2021
Ottawa’s ‘update’ reveals new spending, tax supports, funding for 40,000 Afghan refugees and families
The federal government has announced some new refundable tax credits for pandemic-hit businesses and individuals, as well as financial aid to businesses for greening the economy and support to speed up immigration processing and to help resettle Afghan refugees in Canada.
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September 13, 2021
Ex-top judge Beverley McLachlin calls writing legal page-turners a challenging ‘voyage of discovery’
Beverley McLachlin spent 28 years at the Supreme Court of Canada grappling with the country’s most difficult legal problems, but she tells The Lawyer’s Daily writing legal thrillers presents its own unique challenges. The author of an award-winning autobiography, Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law, and the #1 best-selling courtroom suspense novel Full Disclosure, releases her second legal page-turner this week, featuring tough-minded criminal lawyer Jilly Truitt.
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July 07, 2021
Independent Safe Sport Mechanism will investigate incidents, hold hearings, feds say
On July 6, Canada announced that the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) had been “selected to establish and deliver a new Independent Safe Sport Mechanism.” According to the announcement, the “main objective of this new mechanism will be to oversee the implementation of the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS) for federally funded sport organizations.”
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April 30, 2021
Arbitration Place adds 12 ‘NextGen’ arbitrators
Arbitration Place announced that it has launched a new 12-member “NextGen Roster” of arbitrators to build on its existing roster by including younger arbitrators for a wider range of disputes.
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April 29, 2021
Divorce mediation firm opens three new locations
Fairway Divorce Solutions announced three new locations in Oakville, Ont., Calgary and Edmonton.
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April 23, 2021
LSO approves technological legal services pilot; Alberta law society adopts new hearing guideline
With the rise of apps and online services upending the legal profession, benchers of the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) have given the nod to launching a pilot project aimed at more closely regulating innovative technological legal services (ITLS) in the province.
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March 02, 2021
Dentons appoints national lead, deputy lead of litigation, ADR group in Canada
Dentons announced that it has appointed Toronto partner Mark Evans as national lead of its litigation and dispute resolution group in Canada, and Calgary partner Rachel Howie as deputy lead.
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February 26, 2021
Davies adds new Montreal dispute resolution partner
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg welcomed Corey Omer as a partner in the dispute resolution group of its Montreal office.
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February 19, 2021
No turning back from pandemic’s changes to justice system: CBA report
When transmitting the first message to officially open the Baltimore to Washington telegraph line, Samuel Morse included a simple statement: “what hath God wrought?” The same question has likely passed through the minds of many people over the past year as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered businesses and schools and forced many people into makeshift home offices. Canada’s justice system has not been immune from that change, with trials moving online and lawyers filing their documents electronically. And now the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) says it is time to make many of those changes permanent.