With the recent decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in the popularly known Maclean’s Magazine case looming in the midst, and with its final pronouncement sure to rehash frenzied and vociferous chatter over…
A Texan court just ruled that a woman’s breasts were a deadly weapon, defined as anything capable of causing serious or deadly injury. The 33 year-old woman was charged for indecent exposure when she took…
“Chief Justice Rugg’s famous distinctions among negligence, gross negligence and recklessness as being distinctions among a fool, a damned fool, and a God-damned fool.†(Harvard Law Record, April 16, 1959.) h/t Dennis Jansen at No….
Just over a year ago we covered Senator Ernie Chambers, the man suing God for making terrorist threats. The case was tossed out this week. But the point of Chambers’ suit, to demonstrate that anyone…
Jules Melnitzer comments on the Legal Post on the mass firings of lawyers in the U.S. Will it come to Canada if our economy goes their way too?
“I was practically embarrassed to see such a horrible looking building,†[business leader and philanthropist, Ignat Kaneff, said] of his visit to the school where his daughter, Kristina, is a student. “It was awful.†Many…
Surely the most important story of Tuesday night’s election was the record low turnout, estimated at 59.1%. So low was the turnout that the Conservatives, Liberals, Bloc Québecois, and NDP all lost votes in absolute…
For most of us, succeeding at getting into law school is a long and arduous path, riddled with onerous tasks like resume-updating, LSAT writing and hunting down references from years past. It usually entails a…
H. Scott Fairley, a Theall Group LLP partner, wrote an lucid and compelling comment on R. v. Hape in the last issue of The Globetrotter. In that decision, the Supreme Court formally admitted international customary…
A Federal Court in the U.S. charged the owners of Puck Technology with conspiracy to defraud the government under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The company produced prosthetic pensises called the…
We’ve Never Been This Bad Before The voter turnout last night in the Canadian Federal elections is estimated at 58% to 59.1%. It breaks the all-time record low of 61% in 2004. This excludes the…
I guess Peter Kent is pretty much guarenteed a cabinet post. Let’s say Minister of Canadian Heritage.
