When I was first introduced to the concept and structure of a virtual law practice, also known as cloud computing, it was love at first sight. I did my homework: researched and investigated the concerns and issues, and how they…
Sep 28, 2009 12:02 PM Peter Small Courts Bureau The 19-year-old man who gave into his jealous girlfriend’s pressure and stabbed schoolgirl Stefanie Rengel to death has been sentenced to life in prison. David Bagshaw’s identity can be revealed now…
Sep 28, 2009 04:30 AM JOHN GODDARD STAFF REPORTER A convicted terrorist is asking to practise law in Greater Toronto. Parminder Singh Saini, 46, blames youth and naïveté for his role in a violent airline hijacking 25 years ago in…
Rhéal Seguin Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Friday, Sep. 25, 2009 08:48PM EDT Quebec’s former lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault is facing criminal charges involving fraud, breach of trust, forgery and fabrication of false documents related to the misspending of…
From guest blogger lawiscool.com Simon Singh, a British journalist and a popularizer of science, is fighting a lawsuit. In his article for the Guardian, Singh wrote that the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) promoted bogus treatments. The BCA sued him for…
Sep 24, 2009 11:55 AM Betsy Powell Courts Bureau A woman plotted the axe murder of her boyfriend for the two-fold motive of financial gain and love, a Crown attorney told a jury at the opening of her Superior Court…
Sep 24, 2009 04:30 AM PETTI FONG WESTERN CANADA BUREAU CHIEF VANCOUVER–Two religious leaders who wanted to challenge Canada’s laws against polygamy, claiming the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects religious rights, had charges against them quashed yesterday. A B.C.…
Paul Koring From Thursday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Sep. 24, 2009 03:18AM EDT Abousfian Abdelrazik is suing the government – and Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon personally – for $27-million over Canada’s role in his arrest and alleged…
Ian Bailey Vancouver – From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2009 11:11PM EDT The optics of police investigating themselves in such cases as the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski presents an "unwinnable" image problem,…
Kirk Makin From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2009 06:50AM EDT A Cambridge, Ont., doctor has been ordered to pay temporary spousal support of $6,000 a month to her ex-husband despite the fact that he…