Keeping Tabs October 2018
Stay up-to-date on news and events from our Young Advocates' Standing Committee (YASC) with Keeping Tabs. In this issue: Chair Chat - Victoria Creighton, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP In The News Legislation Update - Julie Mouris, Conway Baxter Wilson LLP/s.r.l. YASC Report - Carlo Di Carlo, Stockwoods LLP Barristers Interview - Compiled by Alexandra Shelley, Torys LLP YouTube Series - Erin H. Durant, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Stay up-to-date on news and events from our Young Advocates' Standing Committee (YASC) with Keeping Tabs.
In this issue:
Chair Chat - Victoria Creighton, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
In The News
Legislation Update - Julie Mouris, Conway Baxter Wilson LLP/s.r.l.
YASC Report - Carlo Di Carlo, Stockwoods LLP Barristers
Interview - Compiled by Alexandra Shelley, Torys LLP
YouTube Series - Erin H. Durant, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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IN THE NEWS<br />
Young Advocates in the News<br />
In this feature, we highlight TAS young advocate members in the news. All of the lawyers profiled<br />
have been called to the bar in the last ten years.<br />
If you or a fellow young advocate has had a recent brush with the media about your/their work on<br />
a case, please forward the news story link to:<br />
Andrew Eckart, andrew@eckartmediation.com; or<br />
Thomas Milne, tmilne@nncfirm.ca<br />
• Regina Bypass engineer defends Capital Pointe’s safety at hearing. Regina Leader-Post, August<br />
2, <strong>2018</strong>. Sahil Shoor, associate at Gowling WLG, is representing a developer on appeal of an Order to<br />
Comply issued by the City of Regina.<br />
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• Landlords beware: Insurance won’t cover damages caused by tenant drug operations.<br />
The Globe and Mail, July 9, <strong>2018</strong>. Gord McGuire, partner at Adair Goldblatt Bieber, writes about<br />
the implications of Carteri v Saskatchewan Mutual Insurance Company, <strong>2018</strong> SKQB 150, in which<br />
the court found that the landlords’ insurer was not liable to pay damages caused by the tenants’<br />
drug operations.<br />
• Ontario Court of Appeal decision answers ‘big legal questions’ on SLAPP suits. Canadian<br />
Lawyer, August 30, <strong>2018</strong>. Ben Kates, former YASC Chair and associate at Stockwoods LLP Barristers,<br />
comments on six new rulings regarding the Province’s anti-SLAPP legislation, their significance, and<br />
a plaintiff’s onus in responding to a defendant’s anti-SLAPP motion in the context of litigation.<br />
• Court hears arguments on both sides of Alberta’s gay-straight alliance law. The Globe and<br />
Mail, June 20, <strong>2018</strong>. Brendan MacArthur-Stevens, associate at Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP’s<br />
Calgary office, represented an intervenor to oppose an injunction application seeking to restrain<br />
a law facilitating the creation of gay-straight alliances (“GSAs”) and banning schools from advising<br />
parents that their children have joined a GSA. The application was eventually dismissed. The<br />
appeal will be heard in the fall.<br />
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