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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Nova Scotia appeal judge Thomas Cromwell to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Cromwell will succeed Justice Michel Bastarache, who retired from the S.C.C. on 30 June…
In this episode, Omar Ha-Redeye interviewed Caitlin Rose, a summering student with Fasken Martineau. A recent graduate of the McGill Faculty of Law, Caitlin was a co-founding Executive Editor of the McGill Journal of Law…
Tomorrow it is expected that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will ask Governor-General Michaelle Jean to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election. Harper will argue that his Conservative government no longer has the confidence of…
Eric Goldman, Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the school’s High Tech Law Institute, has a post on a recent American decision involving search engine optimization and…
