From: Mitchell McInnes <mmcinnes@ualberta.ca>

Sent: Friday 4 October 2024 13:41

To: obligations@uwo.ca

Steven Elliott wrote: "The CJ s comment cannot have been made with private law in mind."

That's what I thought when I initially heard about the story. But it turns out that the Chief Justice did have private law in mind. He is quoted in one of Canada's newspapers as saying: 

"The judicial landscape has changed completely, and a decision five years old is often, in commercial or civil matters, already a very old decision. To make a long story short, I am simply telling you that the legal interest in these historical decisions is very minimal" 

Mitchell

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Mitchell McInnes

Faculty of Law

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H5