Faculty of Law News Archive

May 28, 2025 — 
The L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts are operating at full speed, with a record seven law students hired to provide pro bono legal services throughout the summer of 2025 to clients anywhere in Manitoba with internet access.

May 28, 2025 — 
Despite ruling, charges of sexual assault and unlawful confinement will not be stayed

May 28, 2025 — 
Stephen Newton, now retired, interviewed players on trial in late 2018

May 27, 2025 — 
The 2025 Robson Hall Mini Moot took place on March 17, 2025, and was organized by co-chairs Jessica Blatta and Kassandra Taverner of the Manitoba Law Students’ Association’s Clinical Experience Committee. The Committee congratulated Linnea Kosokowsky (1L) and Meagan Gillis (1L), winners of the 2025 Robson Hall Mini Moot.

May 27, 2025 — 
The third annual Art Braid Business Law Case Competition took place on Friday, February 28, 2025, at Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP (TDS)’s offices. This year’s case challenged students to review and analyze a services agreement on behalf of a client and present their recommendations. Congratulations to winners Jordan Wagner (3L), Eric Wagner (1L), and William Ho (1L), and to runners-up: Eric Martin (1L), Tyler Rubigny (1L), Thomas James-Davies (1L), and Alessandro Imbrogno (1L). The Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law generously funded the competition.

May 26, 2025 — 
The 2025 Kawaskimhon Indigenous Moot took place March 7 – 8, hosted by the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University on the traditional Anishinabe territory of the Fort William First Nation, home to Anemki Wajiw (Mount McKay, Thunder Bay, Ontario). The University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law sent two teams to compete, including Mary-Charlet Lathlin (3L), Janell Jackson (2L), Raven Morrisseau (2L), and Chloe Dreilich-Girard (2L). The team was coached by Marc Kruse, Director of Indigenous Legal Learning and Services, and Daniel Diamond, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law.

May 26, 2025 — 
The Gale Cup Moot’s Team Manitoba was in Toronto from February 27 - March 2. Kaitlyn Clarke and Andrew Bergen (2Ls) were a Respondent team while Sameer Harris and Derek Zaporzan (2Ls) were Appellants. Denise Sarmiento (3L) was the researcher, (plus clerk and timer at practices). The team was coached by Dayna Queau-Guzzi and Ashleigh Smith from the Appeals Unit at Manitoba Prosecutions.

May 26, 2025 — 
The National Family Law Negotiation Competition took place virtually on February 27 to March 1, 2025. Manitoba’s team of Sydney Reimer (2L) and Tahnee Hoff (2L) placed 4th overall, with Reimer placing 2nd as individual top negotiator. The team of Ethan Kemp-Wasylyk (2L) and Nicolle Golletz (3L) placed 8th overall. Researcher, Eric Moon (3L), assisted the teams, which were coached by Tanya Keller [LLB/08] and Mikaela Bauerlein [JD/23] (both of Amica Law Corporation). Natasha Brown, Director of Access to Justice at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, was an organizer of the annual competition, which is co-hosted annually by the University of Manitoba and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

May 21, 2025 — 
For the past 33 years, the Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception has provided an opportunity for each faculty and school to nominate one outstanding graduating student, who in turn chooses two teachers—one from their K–12 years and one from their time at the University of Manitoba.

May 20, 2025 — 
A CBC Manitoba looks at potential issues with new proposed plastic health cards, including no expiry dates and how that could be problematic. Katie Szilagyi, an assistant law professor at the University of Manitoba, weighs in on whether the concerns are valid.