Last week’s decision of the European Court of Justice in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, C-362/14 deemed invalid an important self-certification regime for companies transferring personal data to the United States from the European Union. Several aspects of the decision are of general interest. Schrems is an Austrian student who, like most of us, has […] Read more

In a remarkable decision yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down British Columbia’s regime of court fees as unconstitutional: Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59. A litigant was faced with a $3,600 bill for scheduling a 10-day trial. She could not pay the court fees — […] Read more