[From the Editor-in-Chief, Craig Scott: On June 4, I posted a piece entitled "Israel's seizure of the Gaza-bound flotilla: applicable laws and legality", including links to other recent opinion pieces or blog entries on this issue (found at the end of the post). My colleague, Leo Adler, who is Adjunct Professor teaching Osgoode's International Criminal Law […]
Spectators to the seemingly never-ending clash between big tobacco and the government will be interested to know the SCC will be hosting another round of litigation between these parties. On May 21, 2010, the SCC granted leave to appeal from the judgement of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Knight v. Imperial Tobacco Canada […]
Editorial Introduction: On June 4, 2010, CBC News created a FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) page on its cbcnews.ca website on the recent high seas intervention by Israel against ships bound for Gaza with humanitarian cargo: see "Flotilla raid: FAQs on the ships trying to reach Gaza." Osgoode Professor (and TheCourt.ca Editor-in-Chief) Craig Scott was asked […]
Last month, the Federal Court of Appeal released its judgment in Lehigh Cement Limited v. Canada, 2010 FCA 124. This is the latest decision from the Court of Appeal dealing with the application of the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (“GAAR”) within the Federal Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.) (“ITA”). The appeal court […]
Ontario employers can rest easy as a result of the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Piresferreira v. Ayotte, 2010 ONCA 384. The appeal revisited the issue of an employer’s duty to protect an employee against mental suffering in the workplace. The Court of Appeal held that restricting an employee’s ability to hold an […]