One of my favorite people on earth is my buddy Michael Crystal, a criminal defence lawyer in Ottawa, the kind of guy who takes the toughest cases, cases I would not touch knowing the limits of my skill. He has recently launched a new website for his law office which is, to say the least …

In perhaps a related story indicative of what constitutes a crime now that Saddam is behind bars, the RCMP have declared spit a weapon and the saying that you will spit on the PM a threat to the nation. A Halifax woman sent this email and received this treatment. Nice to see that the RCMP listens …

This will be the news for months. But should Saddam get a fair trial? What  •  defines a fair trial? When I was in grade eleven, our history class ran the  •  Nuremburg trials and I was Goebbels. I got myself off but my good pal Bruce,  •  mock chief justice and now head of social studies for the …

Yesterday's Canadian Copyright Board ruling on the payment of fees on new  •  blank media such as iPods and blank CD as got some notice on some popular  •  US blogs. There  •  are two separate cases at play, the ruling of yesterday by the Copyright Board  •  as well as another from 1999 which has …

I was thinking more about this post and the quote copied from Jean's Tingley's PEI election blog. What laws are involved? Perhaps Criminal Code sub-section 121(2)  •  “(2) Every one commits an offence who, in order to obtain or retain a contract with the government, or as a term of any such …

From candidate Jean Tingley's site today  •  “As the election gets nearer, I find the people are getting a bit bolder with making demands in exchange for their vote. Today, I was told there were four votes in the house in exchange for a guarantee and promise that the two men in the house would be …

Interesting to see the beginning of the end of chatrooms as we know them. What service do they provide other than feeding and baiting grounds for pedophiles?

Discount Blogger, a New Brunswicker in Atlanta, is speaking and entertaining comment on the new criminal code provisions on same-sex hate crimes. I must say, I am flabbergasted by the failure of this vote in the House to be unanimous. In case you are interested, here is the record from Hansard of …

At least here in Ontario for libel and slander law, so sayeth the Court in Bahlieda v. Santa (2003) 64 O.R. (3d) 599. Mind how you go.