A story of crime (?) and punishment (!)
If a teacher and a student fall in love and have a consensual sexual encounter, should the teacher go to jail for 10 years? What if the student is of the age of consent? What…
Articles by Pulat Yunusov
Access to justice and elected judges
Every once in a while, a big legal case takes over the press. Murder, corruption, shareholder disputes, and Canadians stuck abroad eventually come before our courts. And when judges hand down their decisions, some people…
An absolute beginner’s guide to free online marketing for lawyers (conclusion)
(Part 1, Part 2) All the sites I talked about in previous posts are relatively open. You can at least freely read their content, even if you can’t contribute. Legal OnRamp is a closed community….
An absolute beginner’s guide to free online marketing for lawyers, Part 2
(Part 1) So how do a lawyer or a firm use social media to promote themselves for free? The first step to a following is to know your audience. You have to give readers some…
A basic right
Allan Rouben explains what trial within reasonable time is and a June 2009 SCC decision in R. v. Godin.
An absolute beginner’s guide to free online marketing for lawyers
Don’t you cringe when you hear marketing and lawyers in the same sentence? Didn’t you go to law school instead of an MBA program so you never had to deal with marketing or sales of…
Political ad bans on transit are unconstitutional
Top court strikes down bus ad ban Here is the text of the ruling. (post sponsored by advicescene.com)
When lawyers go on strike
Can lawyers go on strike? You’d think no, not if they have their own practices. But effectively that’s what many defence lawyers in Ontario are up to these days. Maybe they don’t make as many…
The privacy of police officers on the witness stand
If a police officer is a witness in court, can the defence lawyer bring up his disciplinary record? Police forces across the country don’t like this idea at all, fearing that the cop’s integrity will…
A Blackmore case update
We wrote about polygamy before here on Law is Cool. One of the highest-profile modern Canadian cases is the prosecution of Winston Blackmore in B.C. Here is one of the recent updates on this matter. (post…
Jury vetting alleged in Toronto
Background checks on potential jurors in Windsor and Barrie made headlines a few weeks ago. I wrote about them but focused mostly on privacy issues. Now a defence lawyer questions jury selection in a Toronto murder…
The Almrei case
Hearings are in progress before Justice Richard Mosley in Toronto. Here is a good recent summary by Toronto Star. (post sponsored by advicescene.com)