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As newly elected School councils meet for the first time this month, we thought a survey of the legal parameters within which school councils function would be helpful.

It has been almost two years since Bill 168, the "Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace), 2009" came into force. Bill 168, which came into effect on June 15, 2010, imposed new duties on Ontario employers, including school boards, to address violence and harassment in the workplace.

On April 28, 2006, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision that a drug detector dog search conducted at a school violated provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, protecting against unreasonable search and seizure.

On June 15, 2018, the Supreme Court of Canada released landmark decisions on Canadian limits on institutional religious freedoms.

Acting on the advice of the Minister of Education, the Lieutenant Governor in Council (i.e. the Ontario Cabinet) issued an order under subsection 9(2) of the Putting Students First Act ("PSFA" or "Bill 115") on January 2, 2013 (the "Order in Council").

The introduction of this legislation has led to a number of complex issues.

In a decision released on June 15, 2005, in the case of Kempling v British Columbia College of Teachers, the British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld a decision made by the British Columbia College of Teachers ("BCCT") disciplining a public school teacher for statements that were published in local newspapers on homosexuality.

​On Thursday, October 24, Premier Jason Kenney delivered his first budget entitled "A Plan for Jobs and Economy" which includes the government's ...

Universities have a variety of internal procedures that permit students to challenge a number of academic decisions.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario released its decision in Y.B. v Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that Ontario public school boards are subject to the Charter, including the actions carried out by Ontario school principals.

In our education law practice, around half of our cases are on behalf of parents against private schools because the school did not meet the parent's expectations, told a child to leave without...

The Ontario Government has offered contract extensions to most of the key education unions, in order to achieve labour peace during the next election.

Sports-related concussions have been in the news a lot recently. Hockey star Sidney Crosby made headlines after he suffered his fourth career concussion in 2017.

For those outside the legal community, lawyers might not be the first profession people think of when it comes to the student debt crisis. Don't they make enough money not to worry about it?

Freedom of expression on campus is not a new issue, but it bubbled up as a hot topic in 2017.

In coming to its decision in ETFO et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen (ETFO), the Court considered the Education Act, provided important commentary on the role of a curriculum generally and clarified