Legal Expenses Insurance in Ontario?
The Toronto Star reports today on quiet negotiations to bring legal expenses insurance (LEI) to Ontario. DAS Canada is a subsidiary of a German firm which has successfully provided LEI to Europeans for a number…
Articles by Ryan MacIsaac
Proposed Drunk Driving Law Would Face Constitutional Challenge
Reported by Canwest News Service, the Canadian Department of Justice is proposing a new law that would allow police officers to randomly demand breath samples in an effort to curtail drunk driving, without respect to…
Billionaire to give $20M to Dal Law
Canadian super-philanthropist Seymour Schulich is donating $20 million to Dalhousie Law School. At least half the money will go toward scholarships, and Schulich hopes that the boost will raise Dal Law’s standing in the annual…
Lawyer Disbarred for Student Debt
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…
Be Careful What You Post For
Following a trend of the erosion of privacy rights online, an Ontario couple who own a far-right website were ordered to disclose the names of eight anonymous posters related to a defamation lawsuit. The owners…
Recession and Altruism
With American law firms shedding lawyers by the hour, things sound all doom and gloom down there. But CNN has picked up on a positive side effect of the firm layoffs: it’s an unprecedented opportunity…
Don’t Let Cybersquatters Steal Your Name
It would be an embarrassing surprise if you woke up one day to find that your personal website was now a dating service, or worse, selling porn or prescription drugs. Well that’s precisely what has…
Goin’ Solo – A New Way to Learn
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…
Canada’s First Fourth-Tier Law School?
As most of Canada’s larger universities now have affiliated faculties of law, it falls to younger and smaller universities to adopt legal education. Recently, Lakehead University was unsuccessful in convincing Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty that…
Osgoode Gets Down to Business
With all the negative press surrounding the York strike in recent weeks, it’s a welcome change to hear that something productive is going on at the northern Toronto university: Osgoode Hall is teaming up with…
Employment Lawsuits Will Rise in Recession
In the current economic climate, companies big and small are feeling the stress of financial insecurity and reduced profits. As a result, more and more Canadians are finding themselves unemployed. This will likely lead to…