Dr Suzanne Chiodo
@ChiodoAccord
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Assistant Prof @osgoodenews. Civil procedure, #classactions, #A2J, procedural justice, court reform. Canadian Anglo, Anglo-Canadian 🇨🇦🇬🇧
Joined August 2015
I’ll miss my colleagues at Western, but I’m super excited to join the faculty at Osgoode! I can’t wait to get started!.
Osgoode is delighted to welcome two new faculty members starting July 1:.Dr. Suzanne Chiodo (@ChiodoAccord ) who’s research interests are Civil Procedure, Access to Justice, and Class Actions. Dr. Patricia McMahon who specializes in Civil Procedure, Equity, and Legal History.
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@protectheflames @john_ritzema "Why are you getting a mobile hairdresser in? Don't you understand the casket will be closed??" Love it. Nobody does articulate anger like the Italians 🇮🇹.
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A babysitter allowed our 3yo to eat 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, a slice of chocolate cake, an ice cream cone, one pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, salami, a lollipop, a slice of cherry pie, one sausage, a cupcake, and some watermelon.
A babysitter allowed our 4 year old to eat 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies, 55 cokes, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 tenders, 100 meatballs, 100 coffees, 55 wings, 55 shakes, 55 pancakes, 55 pastas, 55 peppers, and 155 taters.
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I taught Donoghue v Stevenson in my torts class today. Snailed it!🐌.
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@thedigitalyenta My friend was freezing cold one day and couldn’t stop shivering. Her husband told her she had bad circulation and needed to exercise more. Turns out she was burning up from a serious infection and ended up in the emergency room.
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@clhubes My husband rolls our 2yo around on the bed after his bath to dry him off. He calls it making pizza dough ❤️ “Papa! I be pizza!!”.
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@AndreaWoo @rabjeetwallia “Months to see an oncologist, yet medical assistance in dying a possibility within days”??? Our priorities are all wrong.
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@KaeleyT A male friend and I were discussing a mutual female friend who had decided to leave her husband because of emotional abuse. The male friend expressed skepticism and asked me to name specific instances of when she had been abused. Why can’t we just believe women?.
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@GinnaCross Is it possible that 3 year olds are simultaneously awesome and annoying, and that’s just how they are and no-one is the “problem”.
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I just got a letter from Oxford University, granting me "leave to supplicate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Translated into English, that means the minor corrections to my thesis were accepted and I can now book my graduation! Hooray!! 🥳.
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@john_ritzema @protectheflames It'll work if he does it in Italian. I've never seen the word "cazzo" used so many times in public messaging.
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Next Tuesday I defend my PhD thesis on #classactions in England and Canada. I am daunted, to say the least. I could really use some encouragement and expressions of support right now. #lawtwitter.
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@invisiblegirl99 @clhubes But also grandmas be like “just give him whisky, that’ll put him to sleep” 😂.
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@KeriLeighMerrit Posts like this always make me laugh because Americans are so keen to say “I’m leaving the US” without even pausing to think whether anywhere else would want them.
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@RandalHendrick9 @tmbejan Looks like it’s a nasty, brutish, and short day in the neighbourhood.
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@womenpostingws She’s aiming for all the people telling her, “you think you’re tired now? Wait till the baby’s born”.
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨.I just submitted my doctoral thesis!!!!!!!!!!!
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@clhubes Mine notices when I put on earrings and takes time to admire them, and I’ve literally never had a boyfriend who did that.
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Well, I'm on the website so now it's official! Very excited indeed to be joining @westernuLaw as an Assistant Professor later this summer. I'll be teaching and researching on civil litigation, #classactions and access to justice. Can't wait!.
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Me: Why didn’t my alarm go off this morning?.My alarm:
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My baby learned to pull himself up to standing this week. Now he wants to climb everything. I’ve nicknamed him Sir Edmund Hillary because he won’t let me Everest.
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@ryanmckeen I flew to another city and met co-counsel at his house, met his wife, then we all went out for a meeting over dinner. The next morning he filed a 75-page document opposing the motion. Reader, he was CO-counsel. It was his motion too. And the defendants had already consented.
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@clhubes I should do that but instead pretend I’m feeding my kid purée till he’s 4 just to troll the BLW crowd.
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I’m very proud to be the academic member of this committee! So excited to be working with these and other highly qualified and experienced folks to bring about meaningful change.
Ontario is launching a FULL review of the rules of civil procedure. Alongside Chief Justice Morawetz, we are working in consultation with justice partners to deliver necessary modernization. All part of Ontario's plan to bring outdated justice services into the 21st
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Every torts prof goes through a rite of passage where they move from “fledgling torts prof” to “proper torts prof because their students have given them a snail-themed gift.” . I am now a Proper Torts Prof. Meet Paisley.
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So the defence went really well and I’m pretty sure I passed, but I won’t know for sure until the examiners submit their reports to the Law Faculty. So…. yay me? #lawtwitter #almostadoctor.
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Me and @TrishIMcMahon on our first day of term! Welcome to all the 1Ls starting at @OsgoodeNews today 🎉🎉🎉
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@andrewhunterm I once said to someone on a bus “did you know you can change the settings on your iPhone so your keyboard doesn’t make that clicky noise?” And he said “oh no I didn’t! Can you show me?” So I did and his phone was quiet after that. Best feeling ever.
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We’re still here, huh? This collapse of Twitter is the most drawn-out saga ever. We should call it Elongate.
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View from my office today (proud to report zero productivity)
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Very happy to be cited for the first time by the @ONCA_en, and in its first decision of 2024! (And I’m in good company with Mike Eizenga and @PirateMike911)
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Just realized I’m a 10-year call this year! Also, my son switched to size 4 diapers today. Only one of those things is a basic requirement to be a judge though.
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@clhubes LOL. Totally agreed. Also, I was lucky enough to have paid mat leave for a year. If I hadn’t had that and someone “couldn’t keep their mouth shut” and told me it was “unnatural” to put my child in daycare, I would shut it for them. You don’t like it? Pay my bills then.
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My #civpro exam asked students how they would reform Ontario's civil justice system, and the answers are so good I just want to send them all to @douglasdowney. It would be like the law school equivalent of writing to Santa.
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@dougdowney has approved changes to the Rules of Civil Procedure, to come into force on January 1, 2021. I summarize the major/substantive changes in this thread. #lawtwitter.
As part of our government’s commitment to make the justice system more accessible, responsive and resilient, we have worked with our justice partners to deliver landmark changes to make civil procedures work better for Ontarians.
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Bencher candidates: You are running for a governance position. I want to know about your experience in governance, and also your commitment to crucial issues like access to justice and the protection of the public. I literally do not care where you went to school.
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CRA email: You have an important letter from us, but we're not going to tell you what it is. Please check your online account. CRA online: Sorry, this isn't working. Please call us. CRA phone message: Did you know you can access your account via My Account?. Me:
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@10MinuteHistory Hi, I'm a law professor. You may know me from such hits as "it might be on the exam, but either way you need to know this", "the deadline is in the email I sent you", and (for family and friends) "no, I will not 'get you off' if you do that obviously stupid and criminal thing".
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@edburmila @KLyo23 I was going to ask why you need $11k/month on zebras and tapirs and then I realized it said “unguents” and not ungulates.
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@ItsMattsLaw I love the way she says “this seems to have reached an audience outside the legal community” like the legal community would think this is totally normal.
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@HannahPosted In fairness to this guy, it seemed they’d only been friends for a few months, had only met IRL once or twice, and every time the friend contacted him it was “for words of wisdom” without showing any kind of reciprocity. I do agree that the guy’s response was very weirdly written.
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It’s D(efence)-Day! Thanks to all of you for your support and well wishes - see you on the other side! #lawtwitter
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As of today I'm once again an Oxford alumna. There is a lot to look forward to in the future, but I'm going to miss the place (especially @OrielOxford)!
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Q: What do you call the body that regulates the law profession in Ontario?. A: Call it whatever you like, it won’t be listening.
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Turns out #NewBrunswick is one giant media monopoly, meaning this cartoonist could be instantly fired by almost every newspaper in the province (because they're owned by the same family). That has major freedom of speech implications. #michaeldeadder
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@yuanyi_z It’s beautiful and awesome, but for maybe 10 minutes and then you have either Maid in the Mist (wet) or Clifton Hill (horrendously tacky). After the Falls, head to Niagara on the Lake instead.
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@sewistwrites My 3yo is lactose intolerant and he refused to eat his lunch. “Mummy I CAN’T eat my lunch because it has LACTOSE in it.”.
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My son was born at Mount Sinai. We had incredible care. We are not Jewish. At least one of our care team was Muslim. These protestors are disgusting.
This is Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada. The hospital was established because Jewish doctors had no place to train or work due to anti-semitism. Tonight a crowd is chanting for violence against Jews outside this place of healing. #antisemitism #BillC3 @SinaiHealth
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The Court of Appeal for Ontario has decided to go with Zoom instead of CourtCall. Hooray for sensible decisions!
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It's my last day at @westernuLaw! It's been an odd two years - between pandemic teaching & parental leave I've barely been on campus. But I'm grateful to @lawdeanerika and my colleagues for their support and camaraderie. There are exciting times ahead for all of us!.
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Passed with minor corrections - celebrations later today! 🎉🎉🎉.
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I just presented as part of a great panel on cross-border class actions at the Class Actions and Complex Litigation Forum @MiamiLawSchool. I’m also loving the (brief) break from the Canadian weather!
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Me emerging onto the professional scene after a year of parental leave:
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Justice Belobaba wrote the foreword to my first book. He was a huge force behind the introduction and development of #classactions in Ontario. He was kind, funny, and always had something interesting to say. He loved helping students. What a huge loss.
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Merry Christmas from our nativity scene in which Jesus has been injured in a donkey-cart accident and Mary and Joseph appear to have been eaten by dinosaurs.
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Me in 2017: How am I going to write a thesis of 100,000 words?.Me in 2021: How am I going to cut this thesis down to 100,000 words?.
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1. Becoming a mother.2. Becoming a doctor.3. Do I really need a third?.
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Except for a couple of deferrals, all my exam marking is done!! 🎉 This means the end of my Twitter hiatus, which I celebrate by posting this incredible charcuterie box I was sent at the weekend 🧀🫒
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How did Ontario's COVID policy end up in Edmonton?.
Edmonton firefighters were called to put out a massive, flaming pile of garbage Tuesday morning.
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So happy to find out that I’ve been re-elected as Member at Large of the @OBAlawyers Class Action executive! The others on the exec are amazing so this is going to be a great year 🎉🎉🎉.
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Today was a great day on the professional front, but a rough one personally. Everything will be okay, but responding to all the congratulations and warm wishes will have to wait till tomorrow. In the meantime, thanks for your support!.
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Just got my student evaluations from last term. Lots of great and constructive feedback, but my favourite was, “This course made me fall in love with tort law” 🥰.
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Not to make everyone feel old, but I taught my civ pro class on service today and at least two students had to look up the meaning of “facsimile transmission” 📠.
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Is it bad that I just Rickrolled my students to see how many of them are watching my online videos?.
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@clhubes Honestly sometimes I feel like I could use a second set of parents. “Here you go honey, play with your spare Mom.”.
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My paper on “Private Law, Public Disputes” got accepted to the Obligations X conference in July 2022. I can’t wait to see beautiful Banff again!.
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@svershbow Someone tweeted that living in Canada is like living in an apartment above a meth lab, and I think that pretty much sums it up 🇨🇦.
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Me: *Reading recent book on class actions* Oh, she's discussing the history of class actions in various jurisdictions. I wonder if she's cited me. *Ctrl + Fs my name*.OMG SHE'S CITED ME 🎉.
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@10DowningStreet @attorneygeneral This is one of the UK’s best barristers who has done amazing work in group litigation and is also personable and kind. What a fantastic appointment!.
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@factory_femme @clhubes Or put the groceries in the car, go to the cart terminal (or whatever they’re called) with the kid in the cart, take kid out, return cart, go back to car with kid. This is not a fox-rabbit-lettuce riddle.
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Everyone: This is a good time to reflect on the high points and low points of the past year, to take a break from the busyness, to be still and ponder what 2022 has in store. Parents of young children: HahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. *Wipe away tears of laughter* Good one.
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Having the time of my life @ObsConf - wonderful to be in beautiful Banff with some of private law’s most thought-provoking scholars (and it turns out they’re great fun to hang out with, too!)
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If it weren’t for the pandemic, it would be a great day for a #lawtwitter viewing of My Cousin Vinny at my place. We could eat cookie swap cookies and discuss whether the legal parts are accurate, and my husband would confirm that the Italian parts are, in fact, accurate.
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