The McGuinty government has today announced that it will be making significant changes to the civil justice system in Ontario. The changes arise in response to Justice Osborne’s recommendations for civil procedure reforms. The government…
Mr. Wisdom has pointed out how reliant we soon-to-be-lawyers are on technology. I, like him, cannot imagine living without CanLII, electronic library catalogs, and e-laws. However, there has always been an undercurrent of resistance to…
To follow-up on our previous post about the benefits of legal writing – and blogging in particular – I found this rather timely post over at The Frugal Law Student. Brett McKay writes: Blogging has…
According to the Ontario Attorney General’s website: In 1992, it took an average of 4.3 court appearances to bring a charge to completion. By last year, this figure had more than doubled to 9.2 appearances….
The Canadian Bar Association has announced that it is joining with a number of other agencies to fight for the repatriation of Omar Khadr to Canada. Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old boy at the time of…
“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…
A lottery winner has been denied his fortune because his lottery ticket was processed a mere 7 seconds after the day’s deadline. Joel Ifergan of Montreal walked into a convenience store just a couple of…
With the federal election just two weeks away, many are still scrambling to decide which name they should tick off on the ballot. A friend of mine turned me on to an interesting Google Maps…
On July 15, I posted a letter that I had written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper regarding Omar Khadr’s continued detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The letter was signed by myself and 10 other law…
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…
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,…
