“Human rights have a dysfunctional relationship with justice. The language is certainly beautiful, but it’s all dressed up with nowhere to go,†charged Dennis Edney in a scathing lecture at the Faculty of Law at…
I presented a couple papers this morning at the Annual Meeting of the World Institute for Research and Publication – Law. You can read more about the conference over at Slaw. The presentations, with audio…
I recently presented this paper, A Trial to End All Terrorism: How the United States Could Have Won the War on Terrorism Before it Even Began, with the Trial of Only One Man at the…
Colvin a protected `whistleblower,’ Cannon says The Canadian Press: Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says diplomat Richard Colvin had a right to make his explosive allegations about Afghan prisoners. He says Colvin exercised his prerogative…
Law Blawgers Omar Ha-Redeye, Michael Carabash and Garry J. Wise return with Episode 2 of OMG! Law Talk. THIS WEEK ON OMG! – ·Google Juice ·Law Firm Public Relations Strategies ·Getting Legal Information Online ·Blogging…
Ottawa seeks to gag Afghan prisoner probe witnesses Federal lawyers are trying to block government witnesses from testifying before a military watchdog investigating the treatment of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan, The Canadian Press has learned.
Subpoenas issued to federal officials in Afghan prisoner inquiry A legal fight is looming over the federal government’s refusal to release information about alleged war crimes committed by the Canadian military. Murray Brewster writes for…
First Posted on Commercial Law International on June 24, 2009. By Charles Wanguhu The above move by the Kenyan freedom fighters to sue the British government has elicited some very interesting responses from some readers…
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are coming to Canada on March 29 to speak to an estimated crowd of up to 5,000 people. David Knowles of the Politics Daily describes the showdown, The event…
Hundreds of law students from across the country have added their names to the growing list of people calling for the repatriation and fair trial of Omar Khadr, as well as the closure of the…
By Daisy McCabe-Lokos of Windsor Law. The Canadian Council on International Law held their 37th annual conference last weekend in Ottawa. The conference ran three days and showcased a range of panels discussing a variety…
The Canadian Bar Association has announced that it is joining with a number of other agencies to fight for the repatriation of Omar Khadr to Canada. Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old boy at the time of…
