Behind Every New Sign Is Someone Stupid
Law Firm | Austin, TX, USA (I work in the mail room of a large corporate law firm filled with Harvard grad attorneys.) Attorney: “I’m needing to send a fax and this machine has a…
September 2008
Middle Passage Law Series
Ainsley Brown will be doing a special series on the “middle passage law,” addressing specific areas of diversity in the law. Welcome to the middle passage law series. This series is an attempt – hopefully…
Winners of Access Group Law Video Contest
The winners of the Access Group One Less Worry scholarship contest are out. All of the contestants were in law school, and entries were opened to the public to select the winner. Steven Luther was…
Motor Vehicle Lemon Laws in Canada
Every state in the U.S. has a lemon law that gives consumers redress when they find that they’ve purchased a defective car and the manufacturer can’t (or won’t) fix it. In addition, there are a…
The Hidden Dangers of Document Metadata
To follow up on Omar Ha-Redeye‘s post about the ethical challenges of practicing law with new information technology, I received the following interesting excerpt from the CBA newsletter in my email inbox: Metadata: A cautionary…
Update on the B.C. Mystery Feet
We’ve been following the severed foot story at Law is Cool for some time now. Ian MacKenzie, a freelance new media producer from Vancouver, contacted us to let us know that he’s been doing some…
New Info Tech Practice Guidelines
The development of technology and its extensive use in the legal field now requires technical competency for ethical practice. The Ethics and Professional Issues Committee of the Canadian Bar Assocation (CBA) has developed a new…
L.T.H. v. Her Majesty the Queen: A Forecast
A decision to be rendered [yesterday] by the Supreme Court of Canada may help clarify another vague area of the law as it pertains to youth justice. The decision impacts police procedures when it comes…
Fear of Global Warming Provides “Lawful Excuse”
Six Greenpeace activists were cleared of charges today for intentionally damaging a coal plant in the U.K. The Independent reports, The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more…
Admissibility of Wikipedia
A recent American case, Badasa v. U.S. discussed the use of Wikipedia by a Homeland Security official. John Timmer at ArsTechnica provides background, References to information at Wikipedia have shown up in various inappropriate places,…
Update: Greens to be Represented in Leaders’ Debates
Just moments ago it was announced that Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, will in fact be appearing in the upcoming televised election debates. The consortium of broadcasters – representing the CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV,…
Green Party Barred from Election Debates
Déjà vu. Though political support for the party continues to grow, a consortium of Canadian broadcasters has yet again decided not to allow the Green Party to participate in the leaders’ debates. This is despite…