Jonathan’s Jots

Normally, courts and law generally, are about 10 years behind the times. Not so with Covid 19. There is a stated and an unstated reason why courts are considering the realities of Covid 19 in sentencing decisions. The stated reason is that jails and prisons have become even more dangerous

The Covid 19 crisis has brought out the best in the legal profession. I have seen some small town high tech firms offer their help to their cross town rivals in closing real estate deals. I have seen criminal lawyers in small towns agree to handle everyone’s adjournment of criminal

As society changes, courts struggle to adapt. Trial courts (through the advocacy efforts of counsel) will sometimes create a new tort in their written decision in a civil litigation case. Usually they will do that in conjunction with their decision regarding other, well established torts. For example, a trial court

This interesting case has failed to lead to any learned legal articles in the trade papers that I have seen and I must say; I am shocked.   The background to the case is that a wife thought her husband was cheating on her (oldest story in law). She hired

I would like to comment on an interesting recent Ontario case involving the intersection of 3 areas of law:   Employment law Defamation law Public policy/procedural law     The case is Joshi v Allstate Insurance. Ms. Joshi sued Allstate for alleged wrongful dismissal and included some claims in lawsuit

There is a showdown pending at the Law Society of Ontario that mirrors two opposing philosophies that one can see from watching geopolitical events around the world. The establishment folks, whom one might loosely call the Obama or Trudeau social engineering types, who have, over time, created a large staff