The Complete Brief

  • September 17, 2026

    Negotiating severance in Ontario after the Baker decision

    The hardest employment mediations I run are rarely hard because the law is complicated. They are hard because one side, sometimes both, arrives committed to a position the law no longer supports. Once a client has been told its case is strong, it is difficult to accept a different assessment later, even after an appellate court has shifted the ground.

  • September 17, 2026

    A new take on the Ontario courts’ practice directions

    There was a time when a family law client needed a parenting schedule, support or the sale of the home, so you typed out a notice of motion and an affidavit. Your client swore it was true. You filed it. A judge read it, heard argument, and it all was sorted out before lunch.

  • September 17, 2026

    Ottawa must freeze economic immigration and clear the ‘Lost Canadians’ backlog

    It currently takes Ottawa up to 33 months to print a single piece of paper confirming what Canadian law already dictates: that nearly 140,000 “Lost Canadians” are rightful citizens. Yet, as the federal government prepares its 2027 immigration levels, voices are already urging a return to high discretionary quotas. Ottawa must ignore them. Before reopening the economic immigration taps, the government must freeze new intake and redirect its bureaucracy to clear a staggering, self-inflicted crisis under Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025).

  • September 17, 2026

    Technical opacity to enforceability: Reclaiming power, control and interpretation in AI governance

    For justice to exist alongside AI governance, we must adopt a sociotechnical approach instead of a purely technical approach to safeguard rights. This requires maintaining the justice system, including courts and other legal institutions, at the core of the sociotechnical system, revealing how language shapes law and governance, and how power, authority and control over AI remain subject to human responsibility.

  • September 17, 2026

    B.C. Court of Appeal addresses bias, relitigation and vexatious proceedings

    Corinne Pereira appealed three B.C. Supreme Court orders arising from her proceedings against the B.C. Labour Relations Board: an order striking her petition for judicial review, an order declaring her proceedings vexatious, and an order dismissing her application to disqualify the chambers judge for alleged bias.

  • September 17, 2026

    Charter protection is for everyone: Corrections system must address transgender situation

    A lawsuit brought by Jeffrey Hartman, a partner in the Toronto law firm Lockyer, Zaduk Zeeh, concerns an alleged incident at a federal institution in Ontario and raises an uncomfortable question for the correctional system: how should prisons accommodate transgender inmates while maintaining the safety, security and privacy of everyone in their care?

  • September 17, 2026

    INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES - Injunctions - Picketing - Secondary picketing

    Appeal by Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) from orders granting injunctions obtained by Purolator Inc. (Purolator). The appeal arose from injunctions obtained by Purolator restraining picketing at its Ontario premises by members of CUPW, who were at the time on strike against their employer, Canada Post Corporation (Canada Post).

  • September 17, 2026

    APPEALS - Grounds - Powers of appellate court - Right of - By accused

    Review by applicant of a Chambers judge’s decision denying his motion to extend the time to file a notice of appeal from his conviction for second-degree murder and sentence of life imprisonment.

  • September 16, 2026

    Manitoba King’s Bench now allowing video affirmation of affidavits at detention hearings

    Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench is now allowing accused persons in remand who are challenging their detention the option of affirming the truth of their affidavits via video appearance.

  • September 16, 2026

    Court denies appeal for sequencing matters in Telus securities class action

    The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal in a proposed class action against Telus, finding that the judge did not err in ordering a petition on secondary market misrepresentation and the certification application to be heard sequentially.