These are the blogs of Slaw's contributors.

These are the blogs of Slaw's contributors.

These are the blogs of Slaw's contributors.

These are the blogs of Slaw's contributors.

Slaw has started to compile information on the judgments of Mr. Justice Cromwell as a member of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. Set out below, as an initial example, are most if not all of decisions ...

Since the publication of the ADR Institute of Canada’s Med-Arb Rules in 2020, Med-Arb has become much more widely accepted as an integrated dispute resolution process in Ontario. Despite this many ...

In “The Lawyer as Friend,” a famous 1976 law review article, Charles Fried proposed that a lawyer should act as a “special-purpose friend” to each of his or her clients. Within the bounds of the ...

As a person who articled and practiced with a provincial government, and now teaches at a law school that defines itself in part by “the Weldon tradition of unselfish public service”, I encourage my ...

Recently, NSRLP participated in the 2024 National Pro Bono Conference, held in Montreal. The two-day event brought lawyers, academics, community workers and judges together to discuss issues of access ...

For many legal practitioners, the thought of a visual contract is terrifying. Afterall, without all the flowery legalese, how will a court know how to interpret the contract? Except that the ...

People-centered approaches have quickly become the norm in access to justice. By the term norm I mean essentially the same thing as the use of the term in sociology, a widely accepted expectation or ...