Category: Causation
A Koan for Clements
See http://www.slaw.ca/2013/06/27/a-koan-for-clements/
(I’ll eventually repost it, here.)
July 10 – reposted.
FREE Snarks and Boojums
One of the perqs (?) of writing for traditional, paper, law journals is the author’s offprint. One of the problems of writing for those journals is what to do with most of those offprints if one wants to keep one’s friends who aren’t compelled to accept one. They’re (the offprints, not the friends) aren’t as convenient as the old-style paper matchbooks for levelling off-kilter restaurant tables and the like.
Gone Boojum Hunting and other fancies and follies
I expect to be mostly absent until September.
Ediger v. Johnston, SCC case no. 34408
on appeal from 2011 BCCA 253 reversing 2009 BCSC 386.
The SCC’s decision in the Ediger appeal is supposed to be released tomorrow at 9:45 a.m. E.S.T. So much for my intellectual vacation. Maybe.
Ediger is a medical malpractice case which could produce more discussion on factual causation in both the informed consent and operational negligence aspects of the case.
On the other hand, the appeal was argued in mid December 2012, barely 3.5 months ago. The seemingly quick turn around could mean a fact-driven decision with little new law. Or not.
I’ve written about some of the issues in Ediger in some detail here.
The SCC’s summary is here. For what this might mean: the current SCC summary is not the same as the summary that existed on September 30, 2012. That version is quoted in the note that I’ve linked to.
DC
Canadian lawyer in Hobart Tasmania
See below.
It was a special call, hence the plastic blue skates (on plastic ice). Unfortunately, my local associate couldn’t find his tabs.
The 4th Monkey Still in Abstenia 