Former Osgoode Hall law professor and Supreme Court justice, Madame Louise Arbour, recently completed a four-year term as the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights. She will take on the position of President and…
Thesis: Command-and-control management styles both derive from and reinforce bureaucracy, power tripping and an overall culture of paranoia. If there is an industry characterized by paranoia, it’s law. We just call it due diligence, and…
Omar posted a story on Slaw about a woman who called in sick (and apparently had to stay in the dark and couldn’t work on the computer) and was terminated after someone at her work…
This video, purportedly taken during a roadside sobriety check in Russia (though I’ve listened to it many times and can’t be definitively certain about the language), demonstrates what happens when an Alcotest has truly met…
A NJ Appellate Division court says that Wikipedia is too malleable to be used as evidence in Palisades Collection v. Graubard, A-1338-07. Mary Pat Gallagher of the New Jersey Law Journal reported yesterday, “[I]t is…
Westheimer’s Rule: To estimate the time it takes to do a task, estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by two, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus,…
Canadians renew pressure on Harper government to implement votes of Parliament TORONTO—On Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Canada granted Kimberly Rivera leave to appeal the decision in her Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA). The Federal…
Omar Ha-Redeye gave a talk on the use of social media in politics, focusing on the Canadian scene, at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre in the Ernst & Young Tower of the Toronto Dominion…
Second post of three on projects at Windsor Law fighting racial discrimination On February 5, 2009, Windsor Law, Canada’s first access to justice law school launched LEAP. The project is a student-led research initiative designed…
Moin A. Yahya, Associate Professor of Law at U. Alberta has posted a couple of interesting videos on why criminal suspects should never talk to the police. Most experienced defence lawyers will tell you that…
The Law of Self Sacrifice: When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
As reported by The Globe and Mail, Houston-based lawyer Frank Santulli has been stripped of his licence to practice law because of his student debt. Santulli has carried US$67,000 in outstanding loans since 1998 and…
