Author: rehan.rafique

.io questions in sharp focus as UK signs Chagos treaty

May 28, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

The UK government has signed a treaty handing over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius, which could eventually turn out to be bad news for .io domain name owners. Currently known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, Chagos was seized in the 1960s and 1970s, its citizens deported, and is home to a strategically…

Internet Law

Texas Supreme Court Applies Uniform Rule for Ownership of Subsurface Caverns — Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real Estate Law Blog — May 20, 2025

May 28, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

In a closely watched opinion issued on May 16, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court in Myers-Woodward, LLC v. Undergrounds Services Markham, LLC, — S.W.3d —, No. 22-0878, 2025 WL 1415892 (Tex. May 16, 2025) resolved a long-uncertain issue of subsurface property rights in the context of salt dome mining. The Court held that, unless a…

Property Law

[DRAFT] A Pressing Need for an EU Underwater Watchdog – EU Law Enforcement

May 27, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Imagine waking up one morning to find out your favourite social media app is down. A few minutes later, your internet connection is interrupted, not just in your house but across the entire city. Planes are grounded. Hospitals struggle to access patients’ records and perform urgent interventions. Financial transactions stall midstream. The world stops moving…

European Law

Can Employers Force a Return to the Office in Ontario?

May 27, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Written on behalf of Peter McSherry As the work landscape continues to evolve after the COVID-19 pandemic, one issue that continues to surface for Ontario employees is the question of remote work reversals. Employers that permitted or even encouraged remote work during the pandemic are now calling workers back to the office after several years…

Canada Law

Towards a Euro-Rwanda policy? The proposed new EU asylum law rules on ‘safe third countries’

May 27, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Home Office, via Wikimedia Commons – the former Home Secretary meets Rwanda’s foreign minister Introduction An unlawful attempt to remove asylum-seekers to an unsafe country that they had no connection with, in breach of basic human rights – as confirmed by the Supreme Court….

European Law

How to Prevent Losing Property via Adverse Possession or Prescriptive Easement

May 27, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

One of the topics we deal with most often pertaining to neighbor disputes are adverse possession or prescriptive easement claims. These are claims whereby one property owner claims that because of extended use of another’s property, they have gained either ownership rights (adverse possession) or easement rights from said use. We’ve written extensively about the…

Property Law

The Role of an Ontario Divorce and Family Lawyer

May 27, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Navigating divorce and family law matters can be one of the most stressful and emotional experiences in a person’s life. Whether dealing with the breakdown of a marriage, child custody disputes, or financial support issues, having an experienced Ontario divorce and family lawyer can make a significant difference in achieving a fair and workable resolution….

Canada Law

In This Issue – Reviews – EJIL: Talk!

May 26, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

After seven years, this is our last ‘In This Issue’. We are signing off with a bumper issue full of reviews in different shapes and sizes.

Two review essays offer in-depth engagement with foundational questions. Fuad Zarbiyev reflects on Alain Pellet’s 2018 Hague Academy General Course, now published in book form. Pellet’s vision of the ‘elusive theory of reality’ (l’introuvable théorie de la réalité) in international law leaves Zarbiyev puzzled at times, as its biases and limitations seem so striking. But he ends on a ‘sentimental’ note, recognizing his secret desire that Alain Pellet, as the ‘Père Fouettard’ of international law with a long record of ‘dispensing beatings to “naughty” colleagues … would come back and restore some order in the discipline’.

European Law

Rethinking Goals to Increase Productivity, Part I: Projects – Investor Lawyer

May 26, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

2019 is around the corner. Although 2018 has been a productive year, I didn’t get as much done as I might have wanted. Now, it’s time to look at 2019 and say, what’s out there? What are we, in the world of real estate, going to start, do, achieve, or finish in our financial goals…

Property Law

where emotion and greed meet money and opportunity

May 26, 2025 rehan.rafique No Comments

Lately I seem to have a lot of files in which beneficiaries are disputing the amount of remuneration claimed by the executors. There are a few reasons for the disputes, of course, but the main one seems to be an executor claiming the maximum amount of pay when the beneficiaries do not believe the executor…

Canada Law