Pulse
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May 29, 2025
Honourable Lee Anne MacLeod-Archer retires from Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
The Honourable Lee Anne MacLeod-Archer is retiring after 11 years of service on the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (Family Division).
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May 29, 2025
Is it a rabbit or a duck? Why lawyers must be storytellers
Every lawyer has been there. We have laid out the facts. We have cited the law. We have prepared what we believe is a clear and persuasive argument. And yet the court saw something else — something that seems, at first glance, unrecognizable.
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May 29, 2025
Partners and micromanagement
“Micromanagement is like cutting grass with scissors; it’s tedious, ineffective and a waste of time.” — Lisa McLeod, author and keynote speaker
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May 29, 2025
Alberta Court replaces house arrest with prison, citing court’s role in setting ‘new direction’
Readers of the Nov. 23, 2021, edition of the Edmonton Journal learned about the results of a two-year investigation by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) known as Project Elk. Eight individuals from Edmonton were arrested and charged with various offences, including those related to drugs and firearms, criminal conspiracy and organized crime.
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May 28, 2025
Zooming into the future
I have often expressed my conviction (as a former prosecutor, I love that word) that the courtroom is the last bastion of respect for authority today. All other authority figures — politicians, religious leaders, police officers, teachers and sadly, even parents — have lost their respect in today’s selfie world.
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May 28, 2025
Common pitfalls in tribunal adjudication of mental health matters, part two: Potential solutions
In part one of this series, I highlighted due process and natural justice or fairness concerns identified by reviewing courts in two mental health tribunal proceedings. In a span of less than four weeks recently, decisions of Ontario’s civil mental health adjudicator, the Consent and Capacity Board, and the Criminal Code-based forensic psychiatric administrative tribunal, the Ontario Review Board, were overturned and returned to them for re-hearing in Hastick v. Banik, 2025 ONSC 3007 and Clayton (Re), respectively.
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May 28, 2025
Elie Laskin joins Harper Grey as an associate
Harper Grey has announced the addition of Elie Laskin as an associate in its health and insurance law groups.
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May 28, 2025
A dance of justice and order: Legal themes in ballet
Ballet is often celebrated for its ethereal beauty, technical precision and emotionally charged storytelling. Yet, hidden beneath the graceful movements and elaborate sets are recurring themes that mirror society’s deeper structures, including the realms of law, order and justice. Legal themes woven into some of the most enduring ballets examine how narratives of retribution, social contracts and class divisions provide a compelling framework for dance.
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May 28, 2025
WeirFoulds welcomes partner Michael Lieberman and associate Claire Copland
WeirFoulds LLP has announced the addition of two new lawyers to its team: Michael Lieberman and Claire Copland.
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May 28, 2025
Decisions made by AI: 4 ways to make legal challenges
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT or BERT have the potential to alleviate overwhelming case loads and focus adjudicators on the substantive merits of the decision before them. In the upcoming decade, tribunal decision-makers will lean on generative A.I. and LLMs to ease their administrative burdens. But reliance on A.I. poses significant challenges.