If you’re in the Brick Works today or tomorrow, go say hi to the herd of #goats hired by the city of #Toronto to eat invasive plants. The Prescribed Goat Grazing Project is brilliant - helps the environment, supports a local business, and acts as a tourist attraction. www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-h...

Chief Justice Marchand’s approach to #AccesToJustice and public engagement should be a model for #courts across Canada and around the world. This is what it means to bring litigation into the 21st century. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

Shout out to the High Court of Australia for a progressive #NativeTitle decision on connection without presence, and how to prove it: [2025] HCA 12 at paras 24-26, 53-100. Canadian #Aboriginal title was partly built on #Australian law (Delgamuukw at para 153), so here’s hoping Canada follows suit.

Colossal Biosciences has just de-extincted the #DireWolf. They have a patent on the process of genomic editing for #DeExtinction (18/425,546). I wonder if they will apply for a #patent on the genome. They didn’t create it, but finding it was arguably inventive. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Apparently, #California courts have been re-enacting historical civil rights cases since 2023. It’s a great way to make justice more transparent and accessible. Has any Canadian court tried this, @lawscribes.bsky.social?

Excellent reporting by @law360.bsky.social: www.law360.com/amp/articles...

The Court of Appeal for Ontario just released a fascinating decision, holding that contributory fault is a defence to breach of contract, so damages are apportioned based on relative fault (paras 41-45). It keeps getting harder to cleanly separate contract and tort. www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/d...

In #Slovakia, roughly 6% of #doctors tried to resign. The government responded with back-to-work legislation, preventing them from resigning. This is especially unusual because (1) the penalty for non-compliance is a year in prison and (2) sick notes cannot be used. www.euractiv.com/section/heal...

Barristers are taught not to wear their #gown outside the courthouse. In Ontario, it’s a faux pas. But in Tanzania, speaking to the press while wearing a gown warrants disbarment: 2024 ONSC 6240 at paras 114-116. I wonder if the same applies to posting pictures of oneself in a gown on #SocialMedia.

Australia just passed a law to force #SocialMedia platforms to prevent use by children under 16. The definition of social media (s 63C) is clever. Once the planned exemptions are published, it could be a good model for any future laws targeting social media. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

This case raises an interesting question: is it discrimination on the basis of religion to weaponize anti-terror laws to silence opposition to an anti-Muslim law, if the person being silenced is not a practicing Muslim? In Canada, probably, but this is #India #Islamophobia amp.dw.com/en/indian-ac...