I am very pleased to pass on information about an important symposium taking place in March at the Court of Appeal for Ontario to mark the 50th anniversary of her appointment to that court – see further here.  The Court of Appeal for Ontario is marking the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Bertha Wilson to the […] Read more

This week the Irish government published heads of legislation that would significantly reform judicial review of administrative action. The general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025 can be accessed here. Some, but by no means all, of these suggestions were made in a report on civil justice reform several years ago (see here). Some […] Read more

Towards the end of 2025, the Supreme Court of Canada released another decision on the interpretation of statutes in a regulatory context: Lundin Mining Corp. v. Markowich, 2025 SCC 39. Lundin can be read alongside the earlier 2025 decision in Telus Communications Inc. v. Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 2025 SCC 15, where the majority rejected the argument […] Read more