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www.canadianlawyermag.com 7 UPFRONT ATLANTIC UPDATE NEWS BRIEFS Human Rights standards apply to Kijiji The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission has found that human rights standards apply to online sellers on sites such as Kijiji. The complainant responded to a car ad via email to which the seller replied that he should "learn how to read English." The ad had asked prospective buyers to respond by phone, not email. The commission ordered the seller to pay the man $1,500 for violating s. 11 of the Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination "against a person or class of persons with respect to goods, services, accommodation or facilities that are customarily offered to the public." N.B. lawyer knighted by King of Norway New Brunswick lawyer Robert Jette has been appointed Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by the King of Norway, owing to his outstanding service to the interests of the country. Honorary consuls are entrusted with the duties of advising and assisting Norwegians with their bureaucratic issues, promoting Norwegian interests in Canada and furthering Norwegian-Canadian co-oper- ation in their respective regions. Jette serves as one of 10 Norwegian honorary consuls in Canada. He used to practise maritime and shipping law in Saint John. Slavery-linked building name controversy George Duncan Ludlow was New Brunswick's first chief justice and the man behind the University of New Brunswick's law school faculty building, Ludlow Hall. He was also one of the last judges in the British Empire to uphold the legality of slavery and on the board of directors of the Sussex Vale Indian Day School, reported CP. Ludlow's place in history led to his portrait being removed from the Ludlow Hall lobby and the Law Students' Society asking the university to remove his name from the hall. New history of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society Professional Autonomy and the Public Interest, The Barristers' Society and Nova Scotia's Lawyers, 1825-2005 details the life of the prov- ince's legal regulator from its genesis to the passing of the Legal Profession Act of 2005. Barry Cahill is a scholar of the legal history of Atlantic Canada and he views the inception of Nova Scotia's Barristers' Society as pivotal in the path to legal profession self-regulation across the country. In his book, Cahill describes how lawyers and judges opposed self-regula- tion and it was the province's Liberal government who imposed it in 1899. Ice cream and frozen yogurt are distinctly different: court Soft serve ice cream and frozen yogurt are two distinct desserts and cannot be considered direct competitors, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has ruled. In Second Cup Ltd. v. OPB Realty Inc., the applicant sought an order allowing it to sell frozen yogurt. Second Cup and OPB Realty were tenant and landlord of a retail space lease agreement containing a use clause. The issue in the case was whether frozen yogurt could be considered a type of non-perishable food product that could be validly sold under the lease agreement. Nova Scotia scrapping bar exam in overhaul of bar admission process Barristers' Society says new process will better prepare lawyers for modern practice NOVA SCOTIA is revamping its bar admissions process, including getting rid of the bar exam. Joining Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia is imple- menting bar admissions training designed by the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education. The bar exam will be eliminated once Nova Scotia fully transitions into the new program. Tilly Pillay, executive director of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, says the new bar admissions process will better train lawyers for the modern legal practice. "The legal world and legal practice has changed. And the bar admissions course is over 20 years old," she says. "This has been evolving because education has been evolving, because practice has been evolving. And we know that students now learn differently than they did 20 years ago." The current system involves three weeks of in-person class times, a 10-week online assessment and a bar exam. In the PREP course, students will begin with a one-day orientation after they begin articles and complete 12 "foundation modules" online. If they began articling in June, they will

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