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This year marked the Hon. Justice Ward K. Branch’s nineteenth year on the planning committee for OsgoodePD’s Annual National Symposium on Class Actions, held April 27 and 28, 2023. After nearly two decades of helping develop the symposium into the foremost forum for class actions debate in Canada, Justice Branch… Click to Continue Reading.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Toral Patel, Manager, Control of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Toronto Public Health, and alumnus of the Osgoode Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law to discuss her professional journey and how she got to where she is today. Tell us a little… Click to Continue Reading.
She set her sights on the legal profession as early as age four and never wavered, thanks in part to the regular pre-work ritual her mother developed before heading off to her own job as a nurse: “My mother would sit me in the room while she was resting before… Click to Continue Reading.
In October 2022, OsgoodePD issued its first digital credential for the Osgoode Certificate in Fundamentals of Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. After completing all program modules and passing an online exam, learners can claim a digital credential (or “badge” as some may call it), in addition to receiving a paper… Click to Continue Reading.
Anyone who has ever participated in a group task knows that the teamwork abilities of your colleagues can make or break a project. Regardless of the intelligence, talent or technical savviness of individual teammates, participants and outside observers can quickly get a sense for which collective endeavours are headed for… Click to Continue Reading.
As we prepare to mark the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, one measure of the world’s progress on environmental issues is the space they occupy in the thoughts of the country’s business leaders. While executives at the helm of public and private companies might have been able to ignore… Click to Continue Reading.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed on April 17, 1982 (the “Charter”). Since then, as a “living tree,” its provisions are necessarily open to evolving legal interpretations depending on the facts of a situation. For those tasked with on-the-ground criminal and regulatory investigations, the course of action that complies with Charter provisions… Click to Continue Reading.
Program SpotlightNew Program on Charter Essentials for Criminal Law Investigators Launches
Growing up in Brazil, Kelin Algayer always knew she wanted to live abroad. She just wasn’t sure exactly where in the world to make her new home – at least until an English language study course brought her to Vancouver in 2014. “I came to Canada for two months and… Click to Continue Reading.
For more than 30 years, Canada’s leading thinkers in tax law have shared their knowledge with students to create what has become the country’s top graduate program in tax law. That three-decade milestone for Osgoode Professional Development’s (OsgoodePD) Professional LLM in Taxation Law program will be celebrated later this spring… Click to Continue Reading.
As a youngster in Nigeria, Fadahunsi Temitope found it difficult to choose between two visions of his future self: “I knew I would either be a lawyer or I would join the army,” says the OsgoodePD International Entrance Award winner, explaining that a closer look at the backgrounds of some… Click to Continue Reading.
For Munmun Saha, the only thing that comes close to her passion for law is her love of television and pop culture. Back in her native Bangladesh, the OsgoodePD International Entrance Award winner found herself naturally drawn to family law as she launched her career in private practice, under the… Click to Continue Reading.