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11 Apr 2013, 4:00 am
I agree that with Alice Woolley’s “Does Civility Matter” article that professional criticism is an important component to the justice system. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 7:18 pm
As Alice Woolley points out both in her National Post Op-Ed piece, and in her Legal Ethics Forum blog post, many of the questions in the form appear to be aimed at avoiding the potential for blackmail and embarrassment. [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 4:00 am
On Laarakker, the Law Society of British Columbia completely missed the boat, targeting a lawyer who stood up for members of the public against a practice described by Alice Woolley as “extortion with letterhead”. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 2:21 pm
The first, by Jocelyn Stacey and co-blogger Alice Woolley, contains a valuable critique of the "good character" requirement that many Bars employ. [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 11:06 am
“Further, [Dow’s general counsel] stated that at the time Dow retained Bennett Jones, it was unaware that a former counsel to Nova in the litigation was a current partner in the Toronto office of Bennett Jones, that no representative of Dow has had any contact with Andrew Little with respect to Nova since he joined Bennett Jones, nor would they contact him in the future,” Wittmann said in the ruling.On the University of Calgary Faculty of Law’s blog, professor Alice… [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 7:38 am
" University of Calgary law professor Alice Woolley opines on larger issues stemming from a recent disciplinary decision by the Law Society of British Columbia in "Lawyers Regulatory Lawyers? [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 9:04 am
Fourth, notice that people like Wasserstrom, Gerald Dworkin, David Luban, and even our own Brad Wendel and Alice Woolley (not to mention our commenter extraorinaire Patrick O'Donnell), to name just a few, have special insights about the ethical justifications for lawyering that they might not have about, say, the law of retail commerce. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 4:00 am
Alice Woolley argued that he was, citing the opening paragraph of his majority opinion in Canada (Attorney General) v Igloo Vikski Inc. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 4:00 am
In the now-mandatory Professional Responsibility course, most law schools use the text Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional Regulation by Alice Woolley, Richard Devlin, Brent Cotter and John M. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 3:00 am
Woolley’s proposal should be seriously considered. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 4:00 am
Further, for additional accountability and good governance reasons that Alice Woolley and I elaborate at length here, there are strong reasons to believe that this type of public policy decision rests bests with the law societies themselves. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 4:00 am
A request for assistance in an unlawful plan may fall outside of the solicitor-client privilege or the lawyer’s duty of confidentiality where the request is part of a scheme to dupe the lawyer into assisting in that plan (see Alice Woolley, Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2011) pp. 113-115). [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 4:00 am
Alice Woolley wrote a paper entitled The Problem of Disagreement in Legal Ethics Theory that I particularly admire. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 9:29 am
In Judgmental Judges, Alice Woolley (now Justice Woolley) writes that: … because of the blurred line between law, policy and morality, the centrality of judicial independence, and the unique ability of judges to speak to certain moral and political issues, we must not label every obiter comment by a judge as misconduct. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 4:00 am
Fixing the Barrel Alice Woolley wrote a very memorable Slaw piece in 2014 about her experience of sexual harassment and assault in a prominent Calgary law firm. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 4:00 am
As I warned my conversant, and as I’ll warn you, I’m a complete amateur when it comes to legal ethics, and I fully expect to be schooled by Alice Woolley or Malcolm Mercer for the elementary errors I’m about to make. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 5:00 am
[1] Alice Woolley et al, Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional Regulation, 2d ed (Markham: LexisNexis Canada, 2012) at 461 [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 4:00 am
Those questions were raised directly in the complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council made by University of Calgary Professors Alice Woolley and Jennifer Koshan and Dalhousie Professors Elaine Craig and Jocelyn Downie. [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 4:00 am
As Alice Woolley (now Justice Woolley) noted in the second edition of Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics in Canada, “A lawyer is unlikely to face any negative consequences if no harm arises from, for example, talking about a case with her intimate partner. [read post]
22 Nov 2018, 4:00 am
The Toronto Star has recently addressed this issue in an article which quotes Alice Woolley saying that “There’s an exploitation of power here”. [read post]
