Pictorgrams and Pipelines

Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 5:57 a.m.

On this edition of stereo decisis, Hilary Young, Robert Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in\xa0Kosoian v. Soci\xe9t\xe9 de transport de Montr\xe9al, 2019 SCC 59, which involved a woman who won a decade long battle (https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/woman-arrested-for-not-using-metro-escalator-handrail-awarded-20000) for compensation after being wrongfully arrested for failing to hold the handrail on an escalator in a Laval metro station.\nThe crew also discussed a recent series (http://canlii.ca/t/j2x79>) of (http://canlii.ca/t/j2l2f) decisions (http://canlii.ca/t/j28lp) in the Federal Court of Appeal pertaining to the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX).\nIn obiter dicta, Rob discussed the recent controversies over the conferral of graduate law degrees at UBC (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/peter-a-allard-school-of-law-ubc-name-on-degrees-1.5353708) without the name of the law school's benefactor, Peter A. Allard, and the use of the name Ludlow Hall at UNB Faculty of Law (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/unb-ludlow-name-change-1.5363456).