By Shannon O’Connor Doctor Associated with Gang-rape Case De-clutters Phone    Tim Alamenciak, a Toronto Star reporter addressed a topical legal issue in Thursday’s newspaper. The staff reporter discussed a criminal case regarding…
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A Quebec man convicted of manslaughter of his daughter gets 60 days in jail. You’ve read it right and on top of this ‘gentle’ sentence, the man is to serve two times per week over…
INDEPENDENT OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: GREATER POWER ; ACCESS TO RESOURCES MUST BE BALANCED WITH GREATER RESPONSIBILITY AND INSPECTION OF PUBLIC LAWYERS SUCH AS PROSECUTORS Introduction  What is the proper scope of state power…
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) recently launched a website entitled LawFacts which is designed to provide information about the criminal justice system to people in Ontario.
2nd When Law and Hate Collide Pan-European Hate Crime Symposium
I often talk to friends or strangers about law. I remember a debate I had with someone once about the government. Can it make arbitrary decisions? I said yes, and he said, rather indignantly, no….
In the recent Supreme Court of Canada (“SCCâ€) decision in R. v. Topp, 2011 SCC 43 the Crown attempted to do the impossible and get blood from a stone. The metaphorical stone in this case…
On September 21, 2011, at 11:08 pm Eastern Daylight Time, Troy Anthony Davis was declared dead. Cause of death: lethal injection. Administered by: employees of the state of Georgia. Legal justification of homicide: a court order. Grounds…
“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…
Law students like to think the have it rough. Â But some of us have it rougher than others, especially those of us that took the less traveled road to law school. This evening The Star…
Here is a link to my website for a case comment on the Gomboc that will be published in an upcoming issue of RegQuest. Enjoy the reading.
In a unanimous decision in October 2010, the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed that a sexual assault complainant may wear a niqab, a Muslim facial veil, while testifying. The Muslim Canadian Congress had intervened on…
