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Simon Fodden
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A law teacher at Osgoode Hall Law School for over thirty years, I started blogging six year ago and launched Slaw in 2005 and have managed it since then. Slaw is now the leading general law blog in Canada.
Recent Articles
US Supreme Court Patent Case on Laws of Nature
One of the satisfying moments that recurred regularly in Star Trek, the Next Generation, was Captain Jean-Luc Picard's simple executive gesture and the words, "Make it so." A lot of magic thinking was bound up with that. The United States Supreme Court, however, has recently told...
What's Hot on CanLII This Week
Here are the three most-consulted English-language cases on CanLII for the week of March 14 – 20. ♨ 1. Romspen Investment Corp. v. 6176666 Canada Ltée. 2012 ONSC 1727 [1] I suppose that on a sunny, unusually warm, mid-March day one should be mellow and accept, without complaint, the...
Ontario Judgment Critical of Document Management System Withdrawn From Publication
[ UPDATE (March 19, 5 pm): As you will see from the comment below from Colin Lachance, the judgment has now been restored. So far as I can determine, no element of the court's criticism has been altered. ] Slaw has learned that the judgment of Justice David Brown in Romspen Investment Corp. v....
Scotland Introduces Law for Minimum Pricing of Alcohol
The recent St. Patrick's Day publicity, most of which seemed to involve drinking, put me in the frame of mind to notice this development from the home of St. Andrew, where the Scottish government has introduced a bill that would fix mandatory minimum prices for alcohol. The Scottish National...
Ontario's Sorry Court Document Management System Ripped by Judge
Those of you who read the Globe and Mail may have seen in today's paper the report by Jeff Gray, "Yes, Virginia, this is a rant from the bench," reporting an edited version of what Justice David Brown had to say from the bench, Thursday, about Ontario's paper-based document...