Every once in a while, a big legal case takes over the press. Murder, corruption, shareholder disputes, and Canadians stuck abroad eventually come before our courts. And when judges hand down their decisions, some people…
(Part 1, Part 2) All the sites I talked about in previous posts are relatively open. You can at least freely read their content, even if you can’t contribute. Legal OnRamp is a closed community….
(Part 1) So how do a lawyer or a firm use social media to promote themselves for free? The first step to a following is to know your audience. You have to give readers some…
Allan Rouben explains what trial within reasonable time is and a June 2009 SCC decision in R. v. Godin.
Don’t you cringe when you hear marketing and lawyers in the same sentence? Didn’t you go to law school instead of an MBA program so you never had to deal with marketing or sales of…
Top court strikes down bus ad ban Here is the text of the ruling. (post sponsored by advicescene.com)
Can lawyers go on strike? You’d think no, not if they have their own practices. But effectively that’s what many defence lawyers in Ontario are up to these days. Maybe they don’t make as many…
If a police officer is a witness in court, can the defence lawyer bring up his disciplinary record? Police forces across the country don’t like this idea at all, fearing that the cop’s integrity will…
We wrote about polygamy before here on Law is Cool. One of the highest-profile modern Canadian cases is the prosecution of Winston Blackmore in B.C. Here is one of the recent updates on this matter. (post…
Background checks on potential jurors in Windsor and Barrie made headlines a few weeks ago. I wrote about them but focused mostly on privacy issues. Now a defence lawyer questions jury selection in a Toronto murder…
Hearings are in progress before Justice Richard Mosley in Toronto. Here is a good recent summary by Toronto Star. (post sponsored by advicescene.com)
Not effectively. Not, if you want to stay in your own country, Canada. In that case, marrying a foreigner is a privilege granted by the government. The Star reports today about exorbitant refusal rates for…
