October 2012 Canada’s Top Court Rules that Specific Performance Not Required For All Land Deals and Duty to Mitigate Applies Canada’s Top Court Rules Teacher’s Privacy Interest in Laptop Diminished Due to School Board Ownership of Computer and Workplace Policies Regarding Computer Use Stay Up To Date with Education LawMore from this issue
September 2012 Stay Up To Date with Education Law Teacher Freedom of Expression Staff Advice and Recommendations Not Publicly Accessible Upon RequestMore from this issue
June 2012 Gender Identity & Expression Added to Code School Investigation Has Negative Impact on College Decision ‘Responsive Records’ Under FIPPA Can Include Deleted EmailsMore from this issue
May 2012 EAs Accompanying Students on Overnight Excursion is Not ‘Volunteering’ Update Regarding the Accepting Schools ActMore from this issue
April 2012 Bill 39, Concussions – Is it Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be? MFIPPA Duty to Disclose: “Some Form of Connection” to Employment is Sufficient for Exemption The Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and Light Rail Transit in the Waterloo RegionMore from this issue
March 2012 Board Does Not Have to Compensate Teachers for Work that is not Performed DECEs are Instructional Support Staff Claim Against Board and Teacher for Student Suicide May ProceedMore from this issue
February 2012 Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Ethics & Religious Culture Program Pre-Reform Decisions from the Ontario College of Teachers Discipline Committee OLRB Will Not Take Jurisdiction of Harassment CasesMore from this issue
January 2012 Limits to Supervision Time is a “Hard” 80 Minute Cap, for all Teachers Proposed Amendment to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 to Provide for Family Caregiver Leave Bill 168 Changes the Assessment of Workplace ViolenceMore from this issue
November 2011 Board Ordered to Pay a Proportional Share of Teacher’s Hearing Aid Accommodation Must be Adequate Not Ideal Student Witnesses Might be Necessary to Prove CaseMore from this issue
October 2011 Miller Thomson Launches Education Law Newsletter Harassment is an Objective Test & Arbitrator Making Findings Necessary Different Criteria for Retired Teachers Not DiscriminationMore from this issue
