ST Law

07/06/2023

A man who etched his initials and those of his girlfriend in a wall of the nearly 2,000-year-old monument wrote a letter of apology, and his lawyer says he is hoping for a plea bargain.

06/23/2023

A B.C. couple has been ordered to pay their former neighbours $3,500 in damages as compensation for the "intolerable" noise caused by the pulsating bass from their sound system, according to a small claims decision.

The province's Civil Resolution Tribunal ruled on the dispute Wednesday, finding there was enough evidence to prove – on a balance of probabilities – that the noise was a nuisance, which is defined in law as something that causes "a substantial and unreasonable interference with an owner’s use and enjoyment of their property."

A B.C. couple has been ordered to pay their former neighbours $3,500 in damages as compensation for the "intolerable" noise caused by the pulsating bass from their sound system, according to a small claims decision.

06/20/2023

"According to the Mental Health Commission of Canada and Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 50 per cent of Canadians will have experienced a mental disorder by the age of 40. Criteria for detentions and forced interventions have similarly broadened, far beyond “danger to self or others.” Most provincial mental-health laws authorize forced interventions against those who might simply be experiencing “negative effects” or “mental or physical deterioration” owing to mental disorders.

These laws are paternalistic, aggressive, and arguably unconstitutional. The B.C. government is currently fighting a Charter challenge to its Mental Health Act, by which anyone with involuntary status is automatically “deemed” to be incapable of making reasonable decisions. And in 2019, a judge threw out Alberta’s laws as “overbroad,” noting that detentions had correspondingly “skyrocketed.” They’d similarly doubled in a decade in British Columbia and Ontario."

Despite the caricatures of people with mental illness and the false narratives about the homeless, there is little evidence that involuntary treatment has clinical benefits

09/14/2022

“The UK’s top court is expected to consider whether DABUS falls within section 7(3) of the UK Patents Act 1977 definition of an inventor (“the actual deviser of the invention”) and issue guidance on how this impacts who owns the patents in light of section 13(2) which provides that the default situation is that the inventor is the owner of the patent unless it is assigned to another entity.

If found to fall within the definition under section 7(3), the justices will be invited to consider whether an AI robot can be considered a legal person for the purpose of assigning ownership to Thaler. If successful, this would be the first meaningful example of when a robot being granted legal personhood in the world.”

Decision likely to come next year

08/01/2022

We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible. She partnered with us to recruit some of the first women and minority astronauts, and inspired generations to reach for the stars.

05/03/2022

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is yet to process 110,661 refugee applications and says the pandemic is creating delays. Many refugee applicants in vulnerable situations are feeling neglected.

03/28/2022

The Supreme Court of Canada will be weighing the arguments it heard March 23 to determine whether the inability to make conditional sentencing availab...

02/23/2022

Young boy penned letter to the Family Court of Western Australia 🧸

02/20/2022

Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum say they’re breaking laws to save lives.

02/11/2022

Doug Hudlin was an umpire in Victoria for decades, and became the first Canadian to umpire at the Little League World Series. Niece Barbara Hudlin said her uncle was known as the "gentleman umpire" because he did more than just call balls and strikes.