Featured Articles: Workplace Woes
Special Report: Public Interest Standing
Featured Articles: Workplace Woes
Some days at work you might feel like you are surrounded by alligators. Employment law can help you out of the swamp.
Issues Faced by Vulnerable Workers in Canada
Linda MacKay-Panos
Precarious work can have significant negative physical and mental health outcomes for workers. Can the law help them?
The Right to Refuse Dangerous Work
Peter Bowal and Aleksandar Gvozdenovic
As far back as 1845, the common law singled out danger as a proper excuse to refuse to follow the boss’s orders. Today, statute law offers some protections.
Workplace Bullying: What Employers Need to Know
Jordan Rodney and Shaun Bernstein
Employers need to know that workplace bullying is never OK.
Being Fired: Employment and Identity
Matt Gordon
Our identities are often tied up in our work, so if we are fired (particularly with cause), our self-esteem can suffer.
Independent Contractor or Employee?
Caitlin L. Butler
There are significant downsides that can result if a worker makes the wrong decision about his or her status.
Special Report: Public Interest Standing
Public Interest Standing and the Bedford Case
Juliana Ho
Public interest standing is integral to access to justice.
Can Administrative Agencies Grant Common Law Public Interest Standing?
Adam Driedzic
This question usually arises whose enabling legislation provides standing based on personal interest.
Access to Justice in a post-SWUAV Courtroom
Sarah Burton
In September 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada significantly changed the law on public interest standing.
Departments
Viewpoint
Canada’s Asbestos Policy: Economics trump global health concerns
Suman Gupta
Columns
Human Rights Law
The Right of First Nations Peoples to a Representative Jury
Linda McKay-Panos
Criminal Law
Solitary Confinement is a National Disgrace
Charles Davison
Employment Law
The Duty of Unions to Fairly Represent Their Members
Peter Bowal and Stephen Moore
Online Law
Law in the Public Interest
Marilyn Doyle
A Famous Case Revisited
Marc Ribeiro vs Dragons’ Den
Peter Bowal and Johnathon Layton
Law and Literature
Cold War Casualties in the True North Strong and Free
Robert Normey
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