Syrian terror suspect Hassan Almrei was released Friday by Canadian authorities after spending seven years in custody without being formally charged. Justice Richard Mosley of federal court said in a written statement that the continued detention…
A few months ago I was asking for some career advice from Jordan Furlong, of the CBA‘s National Magazine. My concerns over bait-and-switch tactics by law firms and the enormously high turnover in some had…
By George McLaren You must have heard the clichés repeated many times over. “There’s no rest for the wicked, (or the righteous, for that matter),†depending on the degree of fondness ascribed to the subject….
Trial commenced on May 26, 2014 for Mayor Joe Fontana of London, Ontario who pled not guilty to fraud charges in which he was accused of using government money to pay for a portion of…
If there was a prize for the NGO who best commodifies white man’s burden on the African continent, and more specifically in Uganda, Invisible Children would win.They recently struck again with a new video and…
by Fathima Cader and Sumayya Kassamali Ten years after September 11, 2001, the term “Islamophobia,” once largely obscure, has become all but inevitable when discussing contemporary politics. As Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden became household…
The Seven Sister law firm Davies LLP ran the above ad in several issues of Obiter Dicta, Osgoode Hall’s law student magazine, the last one running on January 9, 2012.  The law firm is known for…
October 28th of this month will mark the one year anniversary of the publication of the Anti-SLAPP Panel’s Report to the Attorney General on anti-SLAPP legislation. Since then, the chatter on the issue of strategic…
There is an articling crisis in Ontario. Many students enticed to law schools by the prospect of being a lawyer, can’t overcome the final hurdle because they can’t find an articling job. Ten months of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, May 13, 2011 – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, announced today that Justice Ian Binnie and Justice Louise Charron have written to the Minister of Justice, the…
In this open letter addressed to the head of Iranian Judiciary, Mohammad Sadeq Larijani, the Baha’i International Community criticizes the judicial administrative process and brings into light the abuse of the legal process and numerous violations of Iranian Constitution, while calling into question judiciary’s impartiality, and reminding the Head of judiciary of stark lack of any evidence in the charges laid against 7 members of the Baha’i administrative body of Iran who have are sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment.
They’re at it again. In November, 76 Tamil refugees escaped Sri Lanka on a rusty freighter. They arrived in Victoria, where they were met by RCMP and Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) officials, who promptly…
