The author expresses her own opinions and does not necessarily reflect those of MRG as an organization. The European Court of Human Rights, up until Wednesday June 3 2009 at 9:15am, had never heard a…
The case we mentioned last week against Shell in allegations of complicity for murdering activists in Nigeria will be settled to a tune of $15.5 million.
The June issue of Canadian Lawyer magazine mentions this site in connection with an article on how lawyers can use online platforms for client development. Even law students are using the Twitter-blog combination to get…
And what still won’t work.
It’s something many lawyers complain about – being ambushed by friends and family with legal problems and expecting an instant answer. Blogging lawyers also face this dilemma from their general readership. Both are likely to…
Clare L. Pieuk shared this exclusive interview with the anonymous Canadian lawyer, The Public Eye, who writes at the Truth to Power.
Context is always important in criminal law matters, drug-related crimes especially. There are a number of reasons why people get involved in drug use and trafficking, including poverty, discrimination, mental illness, depression, chronic pain, sexual…
Gary Anandasangaree, a Toronto lawyer, recent graduate of Osgoode, and member of the Canadian Tamil Congress, has a piece in today’s Star on the conflict in Sri Lanka, While Canada stood with countries like Germany,…
Catherine Boyle of the TimesOnline reports: Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, will go on trial over allegations that it was complicit in the execution of a well-known Nigerian environmental activist and author……
Gummidge’s Law: The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public.
Ontario PC Leader Tom Hudak is expected to campaign on disbanding the Ontario Human Rights Commission, so we’ll probably hear a lot more about them in the coming months. And all the familiar figures will…
Reproduced with permission of the author. By Krystalline Kraus [1] When you accuse anyone of war crimes, you’d better be sure you have the evidence to back it up; such an accusation is the equivalent…
