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Jeremy Opolsky
@JOpolsky
Litigator @TorysLLP, tweeting a lot about law, a little about musical theatre and rarely about anything of consequence. Tweets ≠ legal advice.
Mar 22, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Here we go, Day 2 of IAA!

We get to hear from Alberta first.

What we're looking for today is skepticism/pushback from the 4 swing judges: WAGNER, KAR, MAR and KAS.

scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/i… Here's my 🧵summarising yesterday:

Mar 21, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
The Impact Assessment Act heAring is starting!

Not a boring case on federalism. about what the feds can do on environment permitting & prot’n. scope of head of power on indigenous issues.

According to ABCA this act is an existential threat to Canada

scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/i… Very skeptical questions right away from ROWE and COTE.

These are going to be hard votes for Canada to get. But that won't surprise anyone.
Mar 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Two years later, this 'paper' by Justice Stratas is still one of the best resources on Canadian legal writing.

But don't try the wit at home (in your factum).

dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3… The paper reiterates @cjmandell 's refrain: think of what makes the judge's job easier.

Supras are a good example. No judge wants to flip through the previous pages of a factum to 'find' the cite. They want to know what court, when, and where to find it.
Mar 8, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Another opus from Stratas J - this time on legal writing.

Although it calls for brevity in legal writing, it is 200 slides. So I'll update this thread as I work my way through it.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… This is something that Stratas has long said, and isn't heard enough: down with the supras (and with the infras too).

Repeating the citations every time always annoys the junior associates (sorry @jonscottsilver ), but it's to ease of use.

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