I have been following, via Trinity Western University School of Law’s invaluable Twitter feed, proceedings at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal: I posted on the first-instance decision here. The questions from the bench on Day One did not augur particularly well for the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, but the judges have also probed the […] Read more

In Taylor-Baptiste v. Ontario Public Service Employees Union, 2015 ONCA 495, the Ontario Court of Appeal tackled the role Charter values may play in the administrative process. At the centre of the case were two employees who worked in a prison. Taylor-Baptiste was the manager of Dvorak, who was also a union president. During a […] Read more

Bernard v. Canada (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 13 represents the end of a long struggle for Ms. Bernard, an employee of the Canadian revenue service who challenged — without counsel — her employer’s ability to send her personal contact details to a union. A decision ordering disclosure was ultimately upheld as reasonable and constitutional but […] Read more