Articles 2021

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Transforming Regulation – New Approaches for the Age of Data and Humans

Transforming Regulation – New Approaches for the Age of Data and Humans

  • 29 avril 2020
  • Robin Bates

On April 27, 2020, a group of public sector lawyers and attendees tuned in to hear Professor Christopher Hodges speak about changing approaches to regulation in the modern world. The event was co-chaired by Robin Bates (Ontario Ombudsman) and Michael Rothe (Canadian Finance and Leasing Association).

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Regulating Disruptive Technologies: Policy and Lawyering Responses

  • 17 janvier 2020
  • Brian Osler

On November 19, 2019, the Public Sector Lawyers Section of the Ontario Bar Association held a program on regulating disruptive technologies and policy and lawyering responses. The program panel speakers were Michael Rusek, senior counsel with the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council, Michael Rothe, president and CEO of the Canadian Finance & Leasing Association, and Craig Stewart, director of industry innovation with the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. 

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The Honourable Justice Lorne Sossin’s 5 Reasons Why the Public Sector is the Best Place to Devote Your Legal Career

  • 01 novembre 2019
  • Anu Lalith Kumar

On October 2, 2019, the Public Sector Lawyers Section of the Ontario Bar Association held their annual welcome reception for articling students and LPP candidates. Students and lawyers in the public sector gathered to hear the Honourable Justice Lorne Sossin share a few words on the good, the bad and ugly of the legal public sector.

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Ontario Ombudsman Reminds Service Providers Under CYFSA of their Obligations

  • 17 octobre 2019
  • Jean-Frédéric (J-F) Hübsch

Beginning May 1, 2019, the Ontario Ombudsman’s Children and Youth Unit started receiving complaints about services to children and youth under the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017. This expanded mandate was a result of legislative changes adopted in December 2018 that transferred the investigative functions of the former Ontario Child Advocate to the Ontario Ombudsman.

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Meet Your 2018-2019 Executive: Part V

  • 21 mai 2019
  • Madeleine Tyber

Get to know the members of the Public Sector Lawyers section executive in this series of articles.

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Tom Marshall Award 2019: Honouring Richard Steinecke

  • 11 mai 2019
  • Margaret Drent

On May 1, 2019, the OBA Public Sector Lawyers Section, together with 60 attendees, honoured Richard Steinecke, the recipient of the 2019 Tom Marshall Award.

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Claiming Privilege in the Public Sector

  • 11 mai 2019
  • Jeffrey Clarke

On April 25, 2019, the OBA’s Public Sector Lawyers section hosted a panel entitled “Claiming Privilege in the Public Sector". The three-person panel provided a refresher on the principles of solicitor-client and litigation privilege and explored the application of privilege to privacy, how to manage privilege within a crown corporation or agency, and the interplay between privilege and Cabinet privilege and Parliamentary procedures.

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Official Languages and the Courts – Ethical Obligations of Judges and Lawyers

  • 11 mai 2019
  • Margaret Drent, strategic policy counsel, Law Society of Ontario, and Geneviève Proulx

On March 20, 2019 (International Francophonie Day), the Law Society of Ontario held a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program entirely in French, in collaboration with PratiquO and the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO), followed by a networking reception organized by the Law Society’s Equity Initiatives Department.

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Mastering Regulatory Inspections and Investigations

  • 30 mars 2019
  • Laura Pettigrew

On February 6, 2019, the OBA Public Sector Lawyers Section held its Mastering Regulatory Inspections and Investigations program at Institute 2019. Speakers included Brian Osler, Shelly Feld, Bernard LeBlanc, Elyse Sunshine, Aviva Harari, Michael Denyszyn, and Bruce Matthews.

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Meet Your 2018-2019 Executive: Part IV

  • 29 janvier 2019
  • Madeleine Tyber

Get to know the members of the Public Sector Lawyers Executive in this series of articles.

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