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Members of the Public Sector Lawyers Section came together on May 24, 2018 to celebrate the outstanding contributions of one of their members. Orlando DaSilva was recognized with the Tom Marshall Award of Excellence for Public Sector Lawyers.

On April 4, 2018, the OBA Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section with the OBA Education Law Section hosted a panel to discuss key Charter and human rights developments in education law.

Get to know Anna Wong in this third installment of "Meet Your WLF Executive".

A review of the debut mystery novel - set in Vancouver - from former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin.

Following are summaries of this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal of Ontario, including Yaiguaje v Chevron Corporation, in which it appears that the Court has finally put an end to the matter; and Beatty v Wei, in which the Court set aside the application judge’s interpretation of the Illegal Substances Clause commonly used as an additional term in the Ontario Real Estate Association/Toronto Real Estate Board standard form Agreement of Purchase and Sale.

This article analyzes the implications of the recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Appeal decisions in Sorbam Investments Ltd v Litwack.

Multi-jurisdictional class actions in Canada continue to create problems for parties and the courts. Recently, the problems associated with multi-jurisdictional class actions resulted in the scuttling of a national class action settlement involving the prescription drugs OxyContin and OxyNeo. Despite three other courts approving the settlement in their respective jurisdictions, the Saskatchewan court in Perdikaris v Purdue Pharma Inc., refused to approve the same settlement.

A consideration of the MOECC's proposed policy for cumulative effects assessments in air approvals.

Is fentanyl skewing the sentencing process? Alan Gold and his associates reflect on the punitive implications of the fentanyl scourge.