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On October 22, 2010, the Ontario Court of Appeal accepted Janice Blackburn's arguments and overturned an Ontario Review Board disposition which granted an absolute discharge to a Not Criminally Responsible accused. (see Ontario (Review Board) v. Vlachos, 2010 ONCA 69
James Lane will be speaking on Opinion and Expert Evidence at the 7th Annual Evidence for the Civil Litigator Conference hosted by the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto on October 8, 2010
On September 29, 2010, James Lane will be speaking on expert witness issues at the Annual Toronto Fraud Forum Conference put on by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Toronto Chapter) and The Canadian Association of Special Investigation Units (Trillium Chapter)
Peter Jacobsen will be participating in a panel discussion on protecting confidential sources at the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression AGM in Toronto on June 2, 2010. Peter is a member of the CJFE Board of Directors.
Carlos Martins will be providing an update on recent air carrier developments at the "Managing Risks in Carriage of Goods Contracts" Conference put on by the Canadian Institute on April 22-23, 2010, in Toronto
Peter Jacobsen, Carlos Martins and Adrienne Lee successfully resisted the appeal of the St. Elizabeth Home Society v. the City of Hamilton, the longest defamation case in Canadian history (142 trial days). The Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision on April 16, 2010. The appeal of the matter was heard over five days in September 2009.
Gerard Chouest will attend the IATA RIM Working Group meeting in London (UK) on April 7-8, 2010
Carlos Martins will be speaking on libel law at the University of Toronto on March 20, 2010 as part of the Canadian University Press Ontario Spring Conference.
On March 12, 2010, Carlos Martins will be presenting at the Ontario Bar Association's CLE seminar entitled "Your First Trial". He will be speaking on the strategic uses of written advocacy at trial.
Carlos Martins will be attending the IATA Legal Symposium in Lisbon from February 28 to March 2, 2010. He will make a presentation as a member of the Consumer Protection Panel. BJCTB is a sponsor of the Conference.
Janice Blackburn will be teaching the "Forensic System and Mental Health Law" module of the Osgoode Professional Development Centre's Certificate Program in Mental Health Law on February 26, 2010. Janice is a Director of the Program.
On January 27, 2010, Gerard Chouest and Carlos Martins will be attending the ABA Air & Space Law Update Conference in Washington, D.C. BJCTB is a sponsor of this event
On November 25-26, 2009, Janice Blackburn co-chaired the Osgoode Hall Law School National Symposium on Mental Health Law. She also moderated a discussion on assessing the risk of violence and ran a workshop on presenting cases to the Ontario Review Board
On November 20, 2009, the Ontario Superior Court accepted the arguments of Gerard Chouest and Tae Mee Park that the Montreal Convention jurisdictional rules are imperative and not affected by the concept of attornment
On November 19, 2009, Ioana Bala successfully argued an appeal before the Ontario Court of Appeal relating to the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act (Ontario).
On November 13, 2009, Janice Blackburn argued a series of motions relating to the lack of express detention authority and lack of residual authority to grant privileges given to a current detaining hospital by the Ontario Review Board, pending the transfer of an accused to a different hospital.
Peter Jacobsen, Carlos Martins and Adrienne Lee will be attending the AD Idem/CMLA Media Law Conference in Montreal on November 6 to 7, 2009
On October 15, 2009 James Thomson will be speaking on the subject of Commercial Hull and Liability Claims at a conference presented by the Canadian Board of Marine Underwriters.
Jim Lane to speak on opinion and expert evidence at the 6th Annual Evidence for the Civil Litigator Conference being hosted by Osgoode Hall Law School (Professional Development) on September 23, 2009 in Toronto.
August 2009 - BJCTB has hired Chris Dearden as an associate lawyer. Chris was called to the bar in June after completing his articles at a large downtown Toronto firm. He was selected from over 100 applicants.
Carlos Martins to attend IATA RIM WG meeting in Geneva on June 25-26, 2009.
On June 16, 2009, Peter Jacobsen was elected to the Board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, an organization that defends the rights of journalists and contributes to the development of media freedom throughout the world.
On May 23, 2009, the Canadian Association of Journalists announced that a number of lawyers (including Peter Jacobsen, on behalf of the BJCTB media group) would receive the 2009 President's Award for outstanding contribution to Canadian journalism.
On May 22, 2009, Peter Jacobsen and Tae Mee Park represented The Globe and Mail (an intervenor) at the Supreme Court of Canada in National Post v. Her Majesty the Queen, a case relating to the protection of a journalist's confidential sources.
On May 13, 2009, Peter Jacobsen gave a presentation in Toronto on internet defamation to the Canadian Chapter of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS). Click here.
On February 17, Peter Jacobsen and Adrienne Lee acted as counsel to The Globe and Mail on Cusson v. Quan at the Supreme Court of Canada. The case relates to the emerging "responsible journalism defence".
Download our newly published Canadian Aviation Update 2008, which summarizes the cases heard in 2008 that affect aviation service providers. Click here.