Author: rehan.rafique

A Lawyer’s Blog – Jon Michael Probstein, Esq.: NY CUSTODY

July 7, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

This case is a reminder for me of the salient issue in my school CRA cases in MA. CK v. LK, 2025 NY Slip Op 50992 – NY: Supreme Court, Richmond 2025: “This matrimonial action was commenced on XX XX, 2024. The parties were married on XX XX, 2006, and there are two unemancipated children…

New York Law

‘WARNING. Confidential documents. Not to be disclosed to anyone’ (Part 1)

July 7, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki) Photo credit: Cancillería Ecuador via Wikimedia Commons When conducting research, I often file requests for access to documents (ATD) under the EU’s access to documents regulation (1049/2001), primarily with the Commission and the Council, and use them as a source of empirical research. In this blogpost, I…

European Law

The Case for Mandatory Insurance – Lash Condo Law

July 7, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Shared amenities like party rooms enhance condominium living by providing spaces for social gatherings. However, on occasion, events in the amenities can give rise to potential liability concerns. For condominium corporations, implementing clear rules governing use of the party room and mandating insurance coverage for party room rentals is one way to help mitigate some…

Canada Law

Polish law restricting the right to asylum at borders – EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy

July 7, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Print this article Polish law restricting the right to asylum at borders By Barbara Mikołajczyk, University of Silesia Since July 2021, in response to EU sanctions imposed on Belarus following the rigged 2020 presidential election, the Belarusian authorities have launched a campaign to destabilise Poland by engaging in instrumentalisation of migrants at the border with…

European Law

Canada’s DST Debacle a Case Study of Digital Strategy Trouble

July 7, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

My Globe and Mail op-ed opens by noting that after years of dismissing the warnings of likely retaliation, the Canadian government caved to U.S. pressure earlier this week as it cancelled the digital services tax. Faced with the U.S. suspension of trade negotiations, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that the government would rescind the legislation that…

Internet Law

Can A Buyer Back Out of a Non-Contingent Offer?

July 7, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

In my last article, we discussed liquidated damages in the context of a residential real estate purchase contract. This article will examine whether a buyer may have a right to back out of a contract and receive their full deposit back, after contingencies are released. In our thriving real estate market, non-contingent offers are increasingly…

Property Law

Province of Ontario Grants Province’s Publicly Assisted Post-Secondary Institutions Unfettered Discretion to Address Sexual Misconduct; Bans NDAs

July 7, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

If an employee of one of Ontario’ publicly-assisted universities or colleges of applied arts and technology commits an act of sexual misconduct toward a student of an institution, what penalty should or must apply? Owing to a recent change in the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act, the answer is entirely within the hands…

Canada Law

Iran, Israel and Gaza Lecture; Edmund Siemers Lecture; Combatant Subjectivity and the Law of War Talk; EoI Statelessness and Citizenship Review; CfP SCR; Genocide in Gaza Lecture; CfP JGLR – EJIL: Talk!

July 6, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

1. An Omni-Crisis in International Law: Iran, Israel and Gaza. The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University is hosting an online discussion on the current omni-crisis in international law – with Prof. Marko Milanovic from Reading University, Susan Power from Al Haq, Palestinian lawyer Sahar Francis, and Dr. Thomas Hansen and Dr. Roua Al Taweel from Ulster University – 8 July, 6.30pm to 8pm (UK time). Twenty-four UN experts have condemned Israel’s attacks on Iran on 13 June as ‘a flagrant violation of fundamental principles of international law, a blatant act of aggression and a violation of jus cogens norms.’ A range of lawyers increasingly use the language of genocide to describe Israeli policy in Gaza. But the Israel-Iran conflict has taken the focus off Palestine. Join the discussion by signing up via Eventbrite here.

European Law

New Jersey Law Journal – Hands Off Blogs

July 6, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Originally posted 2010-11-18 18:43:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I wrote this in the New Jersey Law Journal last week. Op-edHands Off Blogs Mandatory disclosure of payment to bloggers runs counter to free expression By Ronald D. ColemanNew Jersey Law JournalJanuary 26, 2007 No one is free from bias of some sort or another,…

Internet Law

The Key to Avoiding Extra Legal Fees – Investor Lawyer

July 6, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Timing! I keep blogging about timing because it is one of the biggest problems for real estate transactions. Issues with timing are hugely stressful; they are the most common reason for an increased legal account. And, no one likes to pay more in legal fees than they thought they were going to have to pay!…

Property Law