{"id":6661,"date":"2019-07-30T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:40:39","slug":"an-update-on-rowans-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/an-update-on-rowans-law\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on Rowan’s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A member of the University of Leicester Women’s Rugby Team attempts to score a try during their annual varsity match against DeMontfort University in 2013. Leicester defeated DMU by a score of 27 – 0.
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In previous blog\nposts<\/a>, we wrote\nabout<\/a> Bill 149, otherwise known as Rowan\u2019s Law, which established the\nRowan\u2019s Law Advisory Committee to assist with implementing 49 recommendations made\non concussion safety. The recommendations were made in response to the death of\n17-year-old Rowan Stringer, who died after sustaining multiple head injuries playing\namateur rugby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the recommendations urged the Ontario government to\nimplement concussion safety legislation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislation, which focuses on concussion prevention, awareness, and\nmanagement, was recently passed in 2018 and came into effect as of July 1,\n2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general, the new law mandates that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. All sports must implement a Concussion\nCode of Conduct for players and coaches in accordance with prescribed\nregulations <\/li>
  2. Annually, all players,\ncoaches\/trainers, and match official must review the Concussion Code of Conduct\nand the Ministry\u2019s concussion awareness resources upon registering or serving\nin a sports organization  <\/li>
  3. All sports must establish removal-from-sport\nand return-to-sport protocols for when a player is suspected of sustaining a\nconcussion <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The legislation also declared the last Wednesday of September as \u201cRowan\u2019s\nLaw Day\u201d to raise awareness around concussion safety.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    All sports organizations are affected by the new legislation,\nincluding Rugby Ontario. It is hoped that the legislation will help prevent future\nconcussion-related tragedies such as Rowan\u2019s death. Thus far, Ontario is the\nonly Canadian province to pass concussion safety legislation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Daniel & Partners assists with personal injury matters,\nincluding concussion-related injuries. Please contact us to arrange a free\nconsultation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Blog post written by Sarah Maude<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Photo taken by Jim\nMonk<\/a>, licensed under the creative commons (CC\nBY-NC-SA 2.0).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In previous blog posts, we wrote about Bill 149, otherwise known as Rowan\u2019s Law, which established the Rowan\u2019s Law Advisory Committee to assist with implementing 49 recommendations made on concussion safety. The recommendations were made in response to the death of 17-year-old Rowan Stringer, who died after sustaining multiple head injuries playing amateur rugby. Part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33,71,53,25,34,72],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8043,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}