In Czech novelist Franz Kafka’s The Trial, a man is arrested, forced to participate in a nightmarish, labyrinthine legal system administered by bureaucrats, presumed guilty, and executed without ever learning the nature of the charges…
As reported on Michael Geist’s blog, a Canadian ISP is actively considering and promoting a three strike policy against its own users. For those who are unfamiliar with the three-strike policy that Quebecor is suggesting…
Okay, I can understand banning guns, rockets, even fertilizer… but macaroni? State Department spokesman Robert Wood: Aid should never be used as a political weapon.
Reproduced with permission by the author from GlobalResearch.ca Former President and War Criminal George W Coming to Canada, March 17 LAW says Bush should be barred from Canada or Prosecuted From Lawyers against the War:…
It was only a matter of time before Canadian jurisprudence began to develop in response to privacy issues and the admissibility of documents associated with enormously popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MSN’s…
Should law school be a professional faculty designed to produce legal technicians, or a theory-based approach designed to give students a conceptual understanding of the law? When the latter holds true, and law schools do…
I was listening to the radio in Toronto today and one story caught my ear. It went like this: “Two suspects charged with shooting an 18 year old in plain view of a security camera…
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Paul Staniszewski was a graduate of Osgoode Hall in 1954. He practiced law for 13 years until he was appointed as a federal judge in 1967. Several law school scholarships were set up in his…
Léna Taylor, Director of Student Programs at McCarthy Tétrault, answers your questions, Law students and new lawyers have a variety of things to worry about, from finding a job in this job market, to figuring…
The Wall has to be one of the most common reasons people don’t pursue their academic careers further than they do. Almost all people run into it eventually. Most of us hit it in undergrad,…
According to the National Post, the criminal justice system in Ontario is an absolute mess. Ontario has the highest rate of failed prosecutions in Canada. In this province, approximately 40% of criminal cases are withdrawn,…
