In the spirit of increased collegiality and collaboration within the Canadian legal blogging community, LawisCool.com and TheCourt.ca have set aside their heated rivalry to bring you their first ever joint posting. What follows is a…
Last week, I made a difficult decision. I requested – and was granted – a one-year deferral of my admission to Western Law. While I toyed with the idea of christening my inaugural blog post…
Inmate rights are a lost cause for an average politician. If anything, legislators are more likely to push for harsher sentences, more hurdles to parole, and less money for rehabilitation. Of course, history knows prisoners…
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has a new law school podcast. And unlike our podcast, it looks like they actually talk about law school instead of legal issues. You can check it out…
Guest post by Linelle S. Mogado, Esq. Welcome to the beginning of your law career in Canada! I am pleased to provide you with this guide to the process I went through to obtain my…
The LSAT Blog has a great post, LSAT Logic and “Ground Zero Mosque” Arguments. See Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.
For the class of 2013 (or 2014 in my case), the end of summer signals the beginning of law school. Â Buoyed by hopes of success and spurred by the prospect of good paying jobs at…
Do your driving convictions really disappear after 3 years? Simon says, "No!" Keep reading to find out more about how the government keeps provincial offence records and what happens to them after three years.
Call for Participation Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life: An international workshop May 12-15, 2011, University of Toronto, Canada Digitally mediated surveillance (DMS) is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of daily life. As we…
Blawg Review is a blog carnival that rotates to a different law site every week, usually emphasizing a specific theme. Last week’s review was by R. David Donoghue. August 23 is the “International Day for…
Since 9/11, Muslims have been at far greater risk of terrorism in the United States than have non-Muslims.
They’re at it again. In November, 76 Tamil refugees escaped Sri Lanka on a rusty freighter. They arrived in Victoria, where they were met by RCMP and Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) officials, who promptly…
