Courthouse Closures – April 13 & 14

by | Apr 12, 2022 | Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench, Manitoba Courts, Provincial Court

Due to the forecasted blizzard conditions, preparations are being made for potential court closures throughout Manitoba for all three levels of court on April 13 and 14.

Updates will be posted here.

Should the Courts be closed on these dates, the Great Library will also be closed. We will be working remotely and can still be reached at library@lawsociety.mb.ca.

New Scheduling Model for Adult Criminal Matters in Thompson Court Centre

by | Apr 7, 2022 | Notices, Provincial Court

April 4, 2022 – Adult Criminal Matters in Thompson Court Centre

“Further to our meetings with the Thompson Bar and other Justice Stakeholders, as of April 4, 2022, the new scheduling model for the Administration of Adult Criminal matters in Thompson Court Centre takes effect. This Notice does not apply to the Thompson circuit locations. The new scheduling model has been created to increase the efficiency and timeliness of moving matters through the court system.

Links to the documents which have been shared and discussed in advance with the Thompson bar and other stakeholders, are provided below:

Thompson Pre Trial Coordinator Protocol;
Thompson Courtroom Designation Schedule
Thompson CM flowcharts (pdf)

Please ensure you are familiar with these documents.”

See the full notice for more details.

All Provincial Court notices are available on the Manitoba Courts website.

Update – Legislative Proclamations

by | Apr 6, 2022 | Legislation, Proclamations

Several new proclamations were signed and came into effect recently.

ChapterTitle     (provisions)Date in forceDate signedProclamation
SM 2021, c. 15The Regional Health Authorities Amendment Act (Health System Governance and Accountability)
Part 1, except section 74 insofar as it enacts sections 79.2 and 79.3 sections 77 to 82 and 84 to 90 subsections 91(2) to (16) clauses 91(23)(a) and (e) subsections 91(24) and (25) sections 93 to 97, 99 to 118, 120 to 126 and section 134 except clauses (a) and (b)		1 Apr 202223 Mar 2022Proclamation
SM 2021, c. 6The Legal Profession Amendment Act
Whole Act except section 3 and section 6 insofar as it enacts section 25.2		1 Apr 202223 Mar 2022Proclamation
SM 2021, c. 61The Budget Implementation and Tax Statutes Amendment Act, 2021
Part 8		31 Mar 202223 Mar 2022Proclamation
SM 2021, c. 64The Workers Compensation Amendment Act
Whole Act		1 Apr 202223 Mar 2022Proclamation
SM 2021, c. 7The Horse Racing Regulatory Modernization Act (Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Control Act and Pari-Mutuel Levy Act Amended) Whole Act1 Apr 202223 Mar 2022Proclamation

See here for all current proclamations.

Journals Update

by | Mar 30, 2022 | Journals

New articles from these journals are now available for Law Society members upon request. For a pdf copy of these or other legal journal articles email us at library@lawsociety.mb.ca.

Estates Trusts & Pensions Journal, Vol. 41

From the law reports
  • Roger Lee. Case Comment: Pirani v. Pirani.
from the legislatures
  • Samantha Nault. Finding the Middle Ground: What Substantial Compliance Means for Ontario.
  • Aubrie Girou & Catherine Bunio. B.C. Bill-21 and Electronic Wills: Progressive or Problematic?
  • Christopher J. Marr. New Brunswick’s Enduring Powers of Attorney Act: One Year Later.
articles
  • Carol Liu. Looking Beyond the Crystal Ball: How Crypto-Wills and Digital Assets Can Change Wills and Estate Planning.
  • Joel Nitikman. Can a Charity Charge for Filet Mignon?
  • Ken Vimalesan. Occupational Rent.

Canadian Criminal Law Review, Vol. 26

  • Yves-Marie Morisette. A Personal Perspective on Judgment Writing.
  • Maxime Bérubé, Sophie Allard, Vincent Denault. Ensuring the Probative Value of Web Searches as Digital Evidence.
  • Hugues Parent. La Constitutionnalité de L’Article 33.1 du Code Criminel: Analyse et Commentaires.

Criminal Law Quarterly, Vol. 70

  • Kent W. Roach. Sexual Assault Law.
  • Hamish Stewart. The Fault Element of Sexual Assault.
  • Nick Kaschuk. Intoxication, Sexual Assault, and Consent.
  • Michael Plaxton. Sexual Assault’s Strangely Intractable Fault Problem.
  • Noor Sohail. The Probative Value of Sexual History Evidence and the 2019 Trilogy.
  • Samuel Mazzuca. Regulating the Admissibility & Use of Sexual Inactivity Evidence in Criminal Cases.
  • Isabel Grant and Janine Benedet. The Meaning of Capacity and Consent in Sexual Assault: R. v. G.F.

Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice, Vol. 35

  • Christine Hickey. Reasons First: Post-Vavilov Considerations for Tribunal Participation on Judicial Review or Appeal.
  • John Mark Keyes. Judicial Review of Delegated Legislation–The Road Beyond Vavilov.
  • Derek McKee. Review of: Joseph Heath, the Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State.
  • Ron Ellis. An Administrative Justice Fix: A Model Act.
  • Michelle A. Alton. The Evolution of Impartiality and the Need for Cultural Competency when Assessing Credibility.
  • Prof. Paul Daly. Vavilov on the Road.

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 35

  • Omar Farahat. Time and Moral Choice in Islamic Jurisprudence.
  • Yifat Naftali Ben Zion. Moving Along the Continuum of Loyalty from a Standard Towards Rules.
  • Clovis Kemmerich. The Interpretation of Court Opinions.
  • Joshua Neoh. Law, Freedom, and Slavery.
  • Jeffrey Brand. Character and Repeat-Offender Sentencing.
  • Andre Santos Campos. The Political Conception of Human Rights and Its Rule(s) of Recognition.
  • Ya Lan Chang. Communitarianism, Properly Understood.
  • John Adenitire. The Rule of Law for All Sentient Animals.
  • Chris Bousquet. Words That Harm: Defending the Dignity Approach to Hate Speech Regulation.
  • Erick J. Sam. From Each According to Their Ability?

Education and Law Journal, Vol. 3

  • Shaheen Shariff, Kaelyn Macaulay, Farah Roxanne Stonebanks. What Is the Cost of Free Speech for Entertainment? A Missed Opportunity by the Supreme Court of Canada to Reduce Offensive Speech and Protect Marginalized Youth.
  • Rebecca Meharchand. “Unfair Dealing”: Mandatory Tariffs under Section 68.2(1) of the Copyright Act Rejected by the Supreme Court of Canada.
  • Baruch Wise. Vaccines Mandates and Legal Immunity for Ontario’s School Boards.
  • Ryan Ramdin. “Re-Framing” Student Choice in Ontario College and University Fees.
  • Aleks Ivovic. Disability Accommodations in University Admissions: A Step Forward for People with Disabilities or for University Autonomy?
  • Kenneth Wm. Thornicroft. Storming the Ivory Tower–Student Challenges to University Academic Decisions.

Indigenous Law Journal, Vol. 18

  • Danielle Lussier. Meek – A Legal Love Letter to My Children: If These Beads Could Talk.
  • Maya Chacaby. Bone Court Trial Transcripts.

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 72

  • Robert Leckey, Eric Mendelsohn. The Notwithstanding Clause: Legislatures, Courts, and the Electorate.
  • Peter Jaffey. Remedial Consistency in Private Law.
  • Ezra Rosser. Hanoch Dagan, A Liberal Theory of Property (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
  • David Lie, Lisa M Austin, Peter Yi Ping Sun, Wenjun Qiu. Automating Accountability? Privacy Policies, Data Transparency, and the Third Party Problem.

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 37

  • Katie Sykes, Rebecca Dickson, Sarah Ewart, Candice Foulkes, Marina Landry. Civil Revolution: User Experiences with British Columbia’s Online Court.
  • Hassan M. Ahmad. Judicializing Foreign Affairs: The Canada-Saudi Arms Deal and the Implications of Transnational Tort Litigation.
  • Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, Maxine Visotzky-Charlebois. L’Accès à L’Accompagnement et à la Représentation par les Personnes Accidentées ou Malades du Travail: Une Analyse Sous le Prisme des Coûts de la Justice.
  • Carol Dauda, Danielle McNabb. Getting to Proportionality: The Trouble with Sentencing for Possession of Child Pornography in Ontario.
  • Donald J. Netolitzky, Richard Warman. As the Water Grinds the Stone: Comparison of Represented and Self-Represented Appellant Populations in the Federal Court of Appeal.