Faculty of Law News Archive

November 28, 2025 — 
Legal research done by law students enrolled in a clinical learning program at Robson Hall has significantly contributed to the ultimate passing of Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) legislation in Manitoba.

November 27, 2025 — 
In what is becoming an almost annual tradition, a law student at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law has won the Canadian Bar Association’s annual Charities and Not-for-profit law student essay contest. Riley Parker’s paper titled “An Analysis of the Charitable Ethos: Hermeneutic History and Protestant Praxis in Anglo and Nordic Countries” was selected as the top paper on a subject relating to Canadian charity and not-for-profit law.

November 24, 2025 — 
On the day he was to receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Manitoba, celebrated alum L. Kerry Vickar [LLB/80] first made a stop in the basement of Robson Hall. There, he was welcomed by law students and faculty in the bright, modern home of the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic, a space filled with offices, boardrooms, collaborative work areas and even two sound-proof conference booths.

November 24, 2025 — 
On November 4, 2025, law student and JD Candidate 2026 Jessie Canard (3L) served as an ambassador of the Faculty of Law's Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts, at an Arts & Culture Day Reception, at the Manitoba Legislature, hosted by the Hon. Nellie Kennedy, Minister of Sport, Culture, Heritage and Tourism, at the invitation of Manitobans for the Arts.

November 24, 2025 — 
From September 26-28, 2025, we (Apara Grace, Brett Williams, Marianna Pozdirca) attended the Christian Legal Fellowship (CLF) National Conference in Mississauga, Ontario. The Conference program focused on a range of relevant topics, including mental health and burnout, charity law, the Charter’s preambular provisions, cultural competence in serving diverse religious clients, and Charter issues related to religious freedom and constitutional rights.

November 21, 2025 — 
A Canadian man has lost his 16-year legal battle to get back more than 1.2 million Canadian dollars he had stored in bizarre locations around his home. Dr. Michelle Gallant, Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba, said in this case, the onus is on Breton to prove the money was obtained legally, noting “cash is the currency of illegal drugs.”

November 20, 2025 — 
CBC News asked Yvan Guy Larocque, Clinical Counsel at Robson Hall at the University of Manitoba, with expertise in Indigenous governance and economic development, to review the Meadows purchase and development agreement. He said it is odd to see a band adviser so financially involved with their client.

November 14, 2025 — 
On November 7, 2024, law students from the Faculty of Law’s L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic, Travis Dech (3L) [BA/23], Sparsh Kohli (3L) [BSc./22 U Western Ontario], and Gilad Stitz (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/23], hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship entitled Startup Law 2.0: Law for Entrepreneurs.

November 14, 2025 — 
On November 5, 2025, the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic collaborated with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship to bring a Legal *Pop-Up* Clinic to the Asper School of Business, to deliver legal education directly to student entrepreneurs on campus, as part of a joint kick-off UM Entrepreneurship and Innovative Thinking Month.

November 7, 2025 — 
A lawyer in Saskatchewan is speaking out after she was told she couldn't wear a poppy in court. CBC's Faith Fundal heard reaction to the news from Yvan Guy Larocque, Clinical Counsel at Robson Hall, who oversees the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts.