Legal Insight
Current news, cases, and ideas affecting law and practice.

"At times, the conspiracy would resemble a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera"

Family Law Update — Support Obigations of a Step-Parent

R. v. Severight | 2010 CarswellAlta 2017 | E.A. Johnson Prov. J.

I believe that my conclusion reflects the objectives or the contemporary arbitral jurisprudence.

Highlights from the latest WeirFoulds Estates & Trusts Newsletter

It is for the courts to interpret the law and not to make it.

Highlights from the latest Mack's Criminal Law Bulletin

Senten, Re | 2011 CarswellOnt 13104 | Reg. Scott W. Nettie

There is a point where the courts are being misused by constant and continuing efforts to keep a proceeding open instead of accepting the determination that has been made and moving on.

Highlights from this month's Police Powers Newsletter

In this appeal, the Court is called upon to answer the age-old question: If a tree falls in the forest and you are not around to replant it, how does it affect your taxes?   2013 CarswellNat 1469 Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd.

On October 18, the Supreme Court of Canada released Cuthbertson v. Rasouli, 2013 CarswellOnt 14113, a decision affirming that a physician must obtain the consent of a patient’s substitute decision maker in order to withdraw life support. If the substitute decision maker refuses to give consent, the physician may challenge the refusal before the Consent and Capacity Board. The following excerpt contains a detailed overview of the law concerning the treatment of patients who are mentally incapable of providing consent.