Verdicts & Voices

Supreme Court fall preview

Episode Summary

Highlights of the Supreme Court’s fall docket with Nadia Effendi, court-watcher extraordinaire

Episode Notes

Friend of the pod Nadia Effendi returns to talk us through the fall agenda of Canada’s top court. Topics include online gambling, price-fixing, religious freedom, prison lockdowns, the Ontario Place redevelopment, the federal assault weapons ban, and the theft of the Winston Churchill portrait from Ottawa’s Château Laurier.

Nadia is a partner at BLG in Toronto and a member of the CBA’s Federal Courts Bench and Bar Liaison Committee. She has appeared before the Supreme Court numerous times and clerked for Hon. Michel Bastarache.

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Verdicts & Voices is a legal current affairs podcast presented by the Canadian Bar Association. With her retinue of expert guests, host Alison Crawford keeps listeners up to date on news, views, and stories about the law and the justice system in Canada.

Views expressed are not necessarily those of the CBA.