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Ontario Court of Appeal reconciles inconsistent verdicts of criminal negligence but no dangerous driving.

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Closer

Elliott v. R. | 2013 CarswellNat 2540 | (T.C.C. [General Procedure]

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Legal Wit — Unfortunately Prescient

Perhaps the persons involved in naming the Cranberry Village project were prescient in that cranberries grow naturally in bogs.

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Case comment on a recent Manitoba Court of Appeal case in which a lawyer unsuccessfully challenged the validity of the Law Society's continuing professional development requirements.

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Recent decision in which the court awarded costs against the Children’s Aid Society for improperly obtaining an ex-parte order.

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The sale of a golf course under receivership was approved by the Court, in opposition to the wishes of the first mortgagee, who wanted to redeem the first mortgage.

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Legal Wit — What Lurks Behind the Fun

George Orwell warned that lurking behind the fun offered by competitive sports is the threat of the arousal of "the most savage combative instincts".

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A classic from the cows-on-highway genre: is it reasonably foreseeable that cows will swim?

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The Court of Appeal refused to hear D's attempts to challenge the constitutionality of the Code's criminal negligence provisions, since they were made without notice to the Crown and never mentioned at trial.

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Phrase of the Week - Chain Link Fence

Stone Mills (Township) v. Rebel Scrap Metal Inc. | 2013 CarswellOnt 3078 | Ontario Court of Appeal

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Legal Wit — Moderately Controlled Bedlam

In the midst of legal proceedings respecting the division of family property, how the petitioner thought breaking and entering his estranged wife's home and removing a raft of chattels would assist the parties in reaching a property resolution is uncertain.

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