First Law of Debate
First Law of Debate: Never argue with a fool – people might forget who’s who.
AdviceScene Offers Free Legal Info from Practicing Lawyers
LawIsCool has recently begun a partnership with AdviceScene.com. The site is an online forum that provides resources to both lawyers and members of the lay public. Founded earlier this year by Nancy Kinney, an entrepreneur…
Madame Arbour Returns to Canada (Episode 20)
Former Osgoode Hall law professor and Supreme Court justice, Madame Louise Arbour, recently completed a four-year term as the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights. She will take on the position of President and…
Get Over the Paranoia
Thesis: Command-and-control management styles both derive from and reinforce bureaucracy, power tripping and an overall culture of paranoia. If there is an industry characterized by paranoia, it’s law. We just call it due diligence, and…
Facebook and Expectations of Privacy
Omar posted a story on Slaw about a woman who called in sick (and apparently had to stay in the dark and couldn’t work on the computer) and was terminated after someone at her work…
Bottums up!
This video, purportedly taken during a roadside sobriety check in Russia (though I’ve listened to it many times and can’t be definitively certain about the language), demonstrates what happens when an Alcotest has truly met…
Jersey Court Rejects Wikipedia Evidence
A NJ Appellate Division court says that Wikipedia is too malleable to be used as evidence in Palisades Collection v. Graubard, A-1338-07. Mary Pat Gallagher of the New Jersey Law Journal reported yesterday, “[I]t is…
Westheimer’s Rule
Westheimer’s Rule: To estimate the time it takes to do a task, estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by two, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus,…
Federal Court grants Kimberly Rivera a judicial review
Canadians renew pressure on Harper government to implement votes of Parliament TORONTO—On Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Canada granted Kimberly Rivera leave to appeal the decision in her Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA). The Federal…
Social Media in Canadian Politics, and Defamation and Copyright (Episode 19)
Omar Ha-Redeye gave a talk on the use of social media in politics, focusing on the Canadian scene, at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre in the Ernst & Young Tower of the Toronto Dominion…
About Windsor Law’s Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP)
Second post of three on projects at Windsor Law fighting racial discrimination On February 5, 2009, Windsor Law, Canada’s first access to justice law school launched LEAP. The project is a student-led research initiative designed…
Why You Should Never Talk to the Police
Moin A. Yahya, Associate Professor of Law at U. Alberta has posted a couple of interesting videos on why criminal suspects should never talk to the police. Most experienced defence lawyers will tell you that…