NBA has leveled a lifetime ban on Jontay Porter for gambling.

Canada’s Supreme Court issued the least amount of decisions in 2023 (36) in the last decade (e.g, it issued 77 in 2014).

Yet the Court issued those 36 decisions, on average, slower than any other year in the last decade (5.5 months in 2023 vs 4.1 months in 2014).

R v Bykovets is one of the most important s. 8 Charter cases of the last decade. The Court is moving towards a mosaic theory of privacy, which will be huge in the AI, big data age. Nice to see my partner Nader R Hasan quoted in the judgment. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs…

We lost a real one. My brother Jay Williams put his insides on the line every single time he showed up to work. He was special and we were all better because of him. Toronto District School Board we need to honour his legacy.

Great opportunity, worked here for > 5 years. Sean Robichaud is a great boss and mentor - especially if you're just starting out. Many of his associates (myself included) transitioned to MAG as well.

Thank you, The Guardian Nigeria 🙏🏾

In my latest op-ed, I explain how the chronic underfunding of Ontario’s legal aid plan (Legal Aid Ontario), aging court infrastructure, and staffing shortages are just some of the many reasons why our justice system is in crisis. thestar.com/opinion/contri…

A nice example of how useful data can be to understanding a new judicial decision’s possible effects as well as commentary on the decision.

Just a few months ago, no amount of prompting I tried fulfilled my daughter's wish to see someone juggling panda cubs. So cool to see it happen effortlessly with @openai's DALL-E 3.
(No pandas were harmed in this demo of AI's continuing progress.)

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/174569…

Court of appeal judge praises ‘jolly useful’ ChatGPT after asking it for legal summary theguardian.com/technology/202…

New paper on the history of civil procedure.

Everyone knows we used to have separate trial procedures for law & equity. Common law had damages & the jury, equity had injunctions & the chancellor. Less well known, we also used to have separate systems of appellate procedure. 1/2

With data about courts becoming easier to access & analyze, how do we ensure that we use this data productively, to increase transparency & accountability of the judiciary?

In a new paper, Jena McGill & I tackle this topic using the SCC as a case study.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

thanks OJEN / ROEJ for a fun discussion!

me getting really annoyed at new password and 2FA requirements but really appreciating it when my bank reimburses some of the fraudulent charges on my card

gated: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Are you Canadian journalist who covers Canada’s legal system?

If so, this survey is for you. It examines your experience with Canadian judicial decisions and Canadian courts.

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This careful, thoughtful, and comprehensive response to some retired New York justices’ meltdown over public scrutiny and accountability is a model of public intellectual engagement. (1/3)

The Michael Geist's Podcast Series Podcast, Episode 175: Amy Salyzyn (@AmySalyzyn) on the Benefits and Risks of AI to the Legal Profession
michaelgeist.ca/2023/07/law-by…

The RefugeeLawLab's bulk Canadian legal dataset is now available on Hugging Face

Full text of decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal & Federal Court are available here:

huggingface.co/datasets/refug…

More details: refugeelab.ca/bulk-data/

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We dug into a paper that’s been misinterpreted as saying GPT-4 has gotten worse. The paper shows behavior change, not capability decrease. And there's a problem with the evaluation—on 1 task, we think the authors mistook mimicry for reasoning.
w/ Sayash Kapoor
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