Resources, Articles, & Advocacy
Article | February 04, 2026
Tips for Remote Execution
This article provides a summary of which documents can be executed remotely and best practices to ensure lawyers are complying with the legislation governing digital signatures.
Article | February 04, 2026
Québec Assets and Searching for Québec Wills
This article provides guidance and resources to assist lawyers with clients who have assets in Québec, and describes new online services for searching for Wills in Québec.
Article | February 04, 2026
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) Laws in Canada: Where Are We Now?
This article outlines the developments in regulating and legislating MAID, including updates from Québec, British Columbia, and a discussion of mental illness in MAID.
Article | February 02, 2026
International Law Developments in 2025: Unprecedented Times Demand Facts Over Emotion
The year 2025 will likely be remembered as a defining moment for international law. Across regions and legal regimes, we witnessed a convergence of forces that placed extraordinary strain on the rule-based international order. What made 2025 particularly challenging was not only the scale of these developments but also the environment in which they unfolded: legal determinations were increasingly filtered through political narratives, binding obligations were treated as optional, and evidence-based findings by courts and UN bodies were often dismissed as partisan or inconvenient. In such a climate, international law demands disciplined attention to facts rather than emotion, law rather than politics, and accountability rather than image management. This article outlines several of the most significant international legal developments of 2025 and reflects on what they collectively reveal about the state and stakes of international law today.
Article | February 01, 2026
Go West, Young Lawyer: Is British Columbia Canada’s Class Action Capital?
What is a class action? Why do we have them? How much do lawyers and litigation funders benefit from them, and why? This article, originally published by Lexpert, gets into the nitty gritty of these questions, through the lens of how different Canadian jurisdictions approach the issues of litigation funding, adverse costs, and counsel remuneration.
Article | February 01, 2026
Certification After the Trilogy: What Still Works in Privacy Litigation
In a trilogy of cases in 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal sharply limited the availability of the tort of intrusion upon seclusion in privacy and data breach class actions involving third-party hackers. This article considers two recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decisions which demonstrate that while the Trilogy narrowed the scope of privacy class actions in Ontario, it did not necessarily close the door.
Article | February 01, 2026
No Liftoff: Court Declines to Certify Airline Supply Suppression Conspiracy Class Action
In Gifford v. Air Canada, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice denied certification of a proposed class proceeding which alleged a supply-suppression conspiracy among several airlines. This article highlights key takeaways concerning certification motions in proposed competition class actions, including the importance of taking into account the dynamics of the Canadian market and the economic complexities associated with an allegedly cartelized product.
