My last post talked about how judges work with each other’s decisions. Today, I’d like to take a bird’s eye look at the relationship between the judiciary and Parliament. Unelected judges handle laws passed by…
More than a year ago I wrote a post entitled “How lawyers think.†Its basic idea is that a lawyer’s job is to maximize legal protection of his client’s rights. Protecting rights means either of…
Toronto will go to the polls to elect its mayor on October 25 this year. There is a lot of media interest in mayoral candidates and scandals surrounding some of them. The incumbent mayor, David…
Pulat Yunusov We in Canada like to think of ourselves as free. We also like to think we have rights. The police can’t throw us in jail for our political views. And if they do…
(Part 1) So anyone demanding the election of judges should understand this: there is a conflict between accountability and impartiality. It’s often hard to get the judges both to be independent and to answer to…
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…
