Volume 22, No. 1 - February 2012

In this issue:

• Summary of OBA Institute session
• Program Notice: May 31, 2012
• Anti-bullying legislation - Michael Smyth
• International recruitment - Greg Joffe 
• La discrimination inconsciente fondée sur la race peut vous coûter cher - Christian Paquette 
• The Increasing Duty to Accommodate Students in Publicly Funded Schools and Post-Secondary Institutions - Samantha Seabrook 

Volume 21, No. 1 - October/Octobre 2011

In this issue:

• Tribunal Decides School Boards Provide Services to Parents, Not Just Students
• Failing to Make Findings Results in Overturning Decision
• Students' Freedom of Expression Gets a Status Update
• Une mise à jour - les antécédents criminels / Update on Criminal Background Checks
   

Volume 20, No. 4 - May/Mai 2011

In this issue:

• Chair’s Report
• Editor's Message
• Employee Privacy Rights Recognized
• Facebook Comments: Just Cause For Termination?
• Defending Private Post-secondary Education
• OESC Training for Trustees
• CAPSLE Landed On “The Rock”

Volume 20, No. 3 - March/Mars 2011

In this issue:

• Gauthier v. Saint-Germain: - A Forthcoming Lesson from the Supreme Court of Canada on Educational Malpractice?
• Court Rules That The Principles Of Procedural Fairness Apply To Independent Schools
• Highlighting the Work of Ontario Justice Education Network: Connecting With Students In The Courtroom
• Bill 122 – An Act To Increase The Financial Accountability Of Organizations In The Broader Public Sector
• The Education Law Executive Needs You! - Nominations, Coming Soon.

Volume 20, No. 2 - November/Novembre 2010

In this issue:

• Updates on Labour Relations and Early Childhood Educators - Two Perspectives
  • Early Learning Program and Designated Early Childhood Educators
  • Early Childhood Educators and the Provincial Discussion Table Agreement

• Human Rights Case Note
• Grappling with Challenges of Bill 168

• Message from the Editor
• Child and Family Services Review Board Decisions
• Highlights of the Keeping Kids Safe at School Act
• Cyberbullying: When is Student Discipline Warrented?
• Implication of Michael Caiilargeon v. Oliver Carroll
• An Evening with the Education Minister
• Principal / Vice-Principal Salary Schedules and Contracts Ordered Disclosed by Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner
• Religious Holidays in the School Board Context
• Cell Phone and Hands-Free Technology
• Violence and Harrassment in the Workplace
• Highlights of the Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act
• Opening Exercises Included in the Instructional Day
• Collective Negotiations for Principals and Vice-Principals

• Liz Sandals Speaks to Education Law Section at OBA Institute: A Summary of Her Remarks
• Do Principals Have the Right to Bargain Collectively?
• Court Upholds Ruling that Online Comments Constitute Defamation
• Sweeping Blueprint for At-Risk Youth
• Has Bill 212 Made Ontario Schools Safer?

• Cyberbullying - From the Classroom to Court
• Accommodating Employee Disability
• The State of Education: Immigration Status and the Right to Attend School
• Privacy Information Management Task Force (PIMT)       
• Hildebrand v. Fox
• Case Update: OCDSB et al. v. Scharf and Paquin
• Case Update: Sagharian v. Canada (Minister of Education)

• Religious Accommodation: Tribunal Finds Two Paid Days of Religious Leave Not Required
• Healthy Foods for Healthy Schools Act: Pizza Prevails!
• British Columbia Human Rights Decision in Moore Quashed by the Court
• Other Implications of Learning to 18 — Part I
• Other Implications of Learning to 18 — Part 2
• Message from the Chair

• Students and the Youth Criminal Justice Act
• Ottawa Carleton District School Board v. Scharf et al.
• Inadequate Homeschooling as a Child Protection Issue
• Transfer for Safety Reasons Upheld
• Law Day
• Random Canine Searches Ruled Unconstitutional
• Upcoming Program
• Section Executive 2007-2008

• The New Family Day
• The Ontario College of Teachers Endorses Limits to Teacher's Freedom of Expression
• School Transfers and Alternative Programs — Problems and Solutions
• Upcoming Program
• Section Executive 2007-2008

• Privacy and the Youth Criminal Justice Act: What Every School Board Should Know
• "Law Works"
• Cyberbullying: Are We Ready?
• Appeal Court Voices Concern Over Guns in Schools
• Toronto District School Board's School Community Safety Advisory Panel and Its Impact
• Newsletters Now Electronic: Message from the Chair of Sections
• National Pro Bono Mentorship Program/Le programme national de mentorat pro bono
• Upcoming Program
• Section Executive 2007-2008

• The Impact of Exemptions under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
• New Legislation: Learning to Age 18
• OPC Recommends New Standards for Supervision
• Duty to Accommodate in a School Setting
• A Call to Curb Cellphones in Class
• Safe Schools Does Not Equal Zero Tolerance
• OBA Institute 2007
• Autism Proceedings Update
• More Than 100 Toronto High School Students Attend Law Day Event at OBA
• Section Executive 2006-2007

• Spotlight on Safe Schools: Ontario's Action Team Calls for Progressive Discipline
• Divisional Court Upholds Principal's Decision to Deny a Parent Access to School Premises
• Mission Impossible: Managing Supervision in Your School
• What is the Status of the Centrally-Assigned Principal?
• Section Executive 2006-2007

• Judicial Review of Limited Expulsion Dismissed
• A Discriminatory Code but Equal Health Services: Section 15 and the Autism Litigation - Dinner Meeting
• New Employment Standards Regulation Expanding Family Medical Leave
• 2007 Institute of Continuing Legal Education
• Section Executive 2006-2007

• The Court of Appeal for Ontario Agrees: Reasonable Grounds Are Required for Canine Searches in Schools
• Safe Schools Legislation: Does Part XIII of the Education Act Violate the Human Rights Code?
• Dr. Levin at the Education Law Section Executive Meeting
• Disclosure of Deceased Individuals Personal Information
• Everything You Needed to Know About Working with the Police
• Court of Appeal Overturns Superior Court Ruling on the Charter Rights of Autistic Children
• Possible Changes to Safe Schools Legislation
• The End of Mandatory Retirement
• Medical Leave and Accommodation
• Supreme Court of Canada Overturns Ban on Kirpans in Schools
• Responding to Immigration Authorities
• Section Executive 2006-2007

• School Board Wins Reprisal Case
• OBA Education Law Section Meets for Dinner Program and Discussion on Freedom of Expression in Public Education
• Proposed Legislation for School Boards
• Application of Privacy Legislation to Private Schools
• Cyberbullying: A Growing Problem
• Bill 78 - Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Student Performance)
• The High Cost of Parental Harassment
• Section Executive 2005-2006

• School Excursions: Avoiding a Trip to Court
• Responding to the Influenza Pandemic Threat
• Discipline for Off-Duty Conduct
• Ontario Human Rights Commission Supports the Collection of Numerical Data
• Bullying in the Workplace
• Keeping Students in School
• Section Executive 2005-2006

• Procedural Fairness: What does it mean in Student Academic Appeals?
• Court Rules that Teachers Can Bring Politics to Class
• School Boards and Indemnities
• Supreme Court of Canada to Rule On School Ban on Kirpan
• Arbitration Award Holds that Principals Must be Assigned to a Specific School
• School Board Found Liable for Sexual Assault
• Court Rules that Independent School Must Provide Procedural Fairness to Student
• Open and Closed Meetings

• Labour Matters: A Special Forum on Hot Topics in Labour Law and Education
• Message from the Chair
• "Learning Life Skills" Jurisdictional Dispute
• Legislation Affecting Labour Relations
• Education Law Alert

• Institute 2005: Vital Issues in Education Law
• Privacy Challenges: Balancing the Rights of All Parties in Disciplinary Proceedings
• Ontario Human Rights Commission: School Boards Not Responsible for Providing IBI Thearapy for Autistic Students
• Managing Parental Harassment
• Current Issues in Collective Bargaining
• Serving Immigrant and Refugee Children in the Wake of the Tsunami Disaster: Challenges for School Boards
• Supreme Court Does Not Extend Funding for IBI
• Bill 73: An Act to Enhance the Safety of Children and Youth on Ontario's Roads

• Prevention of Teachers from Running as Trustees Found to be Unconstitutional
• Personal Health Information Protection Act
• Family Court Assumes Supervisory Jurisdiction over the Relationship between School Board and Pupils
• Volume 14, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2004
• In this Issue:
• Issues and Challenges for Caregivers
• CAPSLE
• New Statements from the Court
• School Board Found Not Vicariously Liable for Sexual Abuse by its Teacher
• Parent - Teacher Communications: Is a Teacher’s Freedom of Expression Protected?
• Court Grants Another Injunction to Compel Province to Provide Funding for IBI Therapy Past the Age of Six
• Ontario Proposes Legislation to Assist Students with Anaphylaxis 

• Student Division Update: The Safe Schools Act Two Years Later
• Assignment of Teachers Returning from Pregnancy/Parental Leave
• Principals's Right to Require Interim Report Cards Upheld
• When do off-duty comments amount to classroom discrimination?
• The Changing Definition of "Discrimination"

• Update on Special Education and Human Rights in Ontario's School System
• OSSTF Does Not Have an Absolute Statutory Right to Teach "Learning Life Skills" Courses at Public Secondary Schools
• Human Rights Commission Report on Barrier Free Education Raises Issues for Special Education
• Doucet-Boudreau v. Nova Scotia (Minister of Education), 2003 SCC 62
• Partial List of New or Proposed Legislation Affecting School Boards
• Summary of Age-Based Legal Milestones for Youth in Ontario
• Summit on Education Governance
• Upcoming Program

• Medical Alert: Managing SARS and other Medical Matters in Schools
• Permanent Resident Card (Maple Leaf Card)
• Volume 13, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2003
• In this Issue:
• Educators' Standard of a Reasonably Careful or Prudent Parent in Providing for the Supervision and Protection of Students Revisited
• Message from the Chair
• Challenge to School Attendance Area Denied
• Safety and Special Needs - Guidance from the Ontario Court of Appeal
• Special Needs Teacher Denied Damages for Injuries Caused by Pupil
• The Balanced School Day
• New Teacher Duties 

• When Rights Collide
• The Interface Between Education and Family Law
• Mass Notice Provisions and the Double Cohort
• Jimmo
• Jubran
• Challenge to Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Vesting Order Dismissed
• A Big Loss to the Education Law Bar
• OLRB Says Concerted Teacher Action Short of a Work Stoppage is a Strike
• Board Retains Flexibility in Reinstating Teachers
• Longer Limitation Periods for Suing School Boards

• Supreme Court of Canada strikes down School Board resolution denying use of same-sex books
• College of Teachers Advisory on Sexual Abuse and Sexual Misconduct
• The Ontarians With Disabilities Act, 2001
• Safe Schools Act 2000 One Year Later: The Perspective of a Board Lawyer
• Youth Criminal Justice Act
• Education Law Section Dinner Meeting Examines Funding and Governance

• Ontario Teachers' Federation wins fee dispute with Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation at Cout of Appeal
• Same-Sex Partners May Attend Catholic High School Prom
• Regulation 521/01 - Collection of Personal Information
• Video Surveillance: The Watchful Eye 

• Mandatory Teacher Re-Certification
• Representing the Tribunal
• Upcoming Program
• Volume 11, No. 3 - January 2002
• In this Issue:
• When is a School Not a School?
• Expulsions and the Child and Family Services Review Board
• Lunch Breaks Under Ontario Regulation 492/01
• Ministry of Education Legal Services Branch Bids Au Revoir to Jack Berryman
• Criminal Reference Checks Under Ontario Regulation 521/01
• Upcoming Programs

• Employment Standards Act, 2000 - A View from the Perspective of School Boards
• Bill 101, the Student Protection Act, 2001, introduced in the Legislature
• Quoc Luong To et al. v. The Toronto Board of Education et al.
• Freedom of Information: When does an Institution have an interest in Labour Relations and Employment Records?
• The Internet
• Safe Schools
• Upcoming Section Program 

In this issue:

• When is a School Not a School?
• Expulsions and the Child and Family Services Review Board
• Lunch Breaks Under Ontario Regulation 492/01
• Ministry of Education Legal Services Branch Bids Au Revoir to Jack Berryman
• Criminal Reference Checks Under Ontario Regulation 521/01
• Upcoming Programs

• Tobermory Boating Accident: A Lesson in Excursion Safety
• Message from the Chair
• The New Professional Learning Program Under Bill 80
• Assaults on Special Education Staff
• Coping With Parental Complaints
• Educators Can Legally Deal With Parental and Intruder Harassment
• Partial List of New or Proposed Legislation Affection School Boards
• Upcoming Section Program

• CBAO Preparing Position Paper Regarding Tribunal and Reform
• The Disgruntled Trustee — Conflicting Interests
• Ontario Regulation 37/01 Expulsion of a Pupil Regulation
• Personal Liability of School Board Officers
• Dress for Success: Province Introduces School Dress Code Policy
• Expelled Students Must Seek Assistance
• The ABC's of Background Checks for Teachers
• Education Law Section Executive 2000-2001