Habeas corpus

By: Law is Cool · September 4, 2009 · Filed Under Criminal Law · Add Comment 

Province pays $2,000 each to nine denied prompt bail hearings

The raid was meticulously planned and involved some 1,200 officers, but organizers overlooked one salient factor – ensuring Toronto’s bail courts were prepared for the crush of detainees.

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The hidden side of the abortion issue

By: Law is Cool · August 31, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights, Ethics · Add Comment 

MDs face scrutiny over duty to unborn

Does an obstetrician have a duty of care to an unborn child?

A Guelph hospital, citing a 2008 court decision that found a doctor had no such obligation in the case of a girl born with birth defects because of an acne drug prescribed to her mother, says no.

But the family of another child says yes.

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Tattoo as evidence of murder

By: Law is Cool · August 28, 2009 · Filed Under Criminal Law, Evidence · Add Comment 

Telltale teardrop quashes acquittal

Ontario Superior Court Justice Todd Archibald should not have barred testimony from a gang expert and three Malvern Crew members that could have bolstered the Crown’s case that Abbey had a teardrop tattooed under his right eye to show he had shot Simeon Peter, 19, the appeal court ruled.

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