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JAIL COVID-19 OUTBREAKS – A good read for all those Assistant Crown Attorneys who argued and those Jurists who decided that COVID-19 was not an inherent risk of incarceration.

Posted byDennis Reeve19 December 202019 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

COVID-19 and JAIL – There is a difference of opinion judicially and administratively as to how we should consider jail sentences during the pandemic. Obtaining accurate information would be a start in developing a consistent policy.

Posted byDennis Reeve18 December 202018 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

This is unfortunate. Justice McLeod is an excellent judge and a wonderful person committed to improving his community.

Posted byDennis Reeve14 December 202014 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN ENGLAND IS BROKEN – Are we in the same situation?

“The scale of the courts’ backlog is highlighted today with figures showing that, in London alone, nearly a quarter of a million people are waiting for their cases to be heard.”

Posted byDennis Reeve12 December 202012 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS – They happen, more often than you may think. This has been a long road but there’s hope with this: “The Trudeau government is poised to consult Canadians on how to go about creating an independent commission to review possible wrongful convictions for criminal offences.”

Posted byDennis Reeve10 December 202010 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

IMPAIRED DRIVING – NAMING AND SHAMING DOESN’T WORK

Posted byDennis Reeve5 December 20205 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

ODE TO JOE – and hope for tomorrow.

Posted byDennis Reeve5 December 20205 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

DECRIMINALIZATION OF PERSONAL USE – To me, this does not seem radical. It just makes sense. It may be bad for MY business but it will be so much better for society.

Posted byDennis Reeve4 December 20204 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

A RAPID AND RADICAL SHIFT – The House Just Voted to Decriminalize Weed

Posted byDennis Reeve4 December 20204 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

I am proud to have been selected as the Best Criminal Defense Lawyer in Newmarket for the 4th year in a row. :)

Posted byDennis Reeve1 December 20201 December 2020Posted inUncategorized

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  • The Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s response to political calls to be “Tough on Crime” by our President, Boris Bytensky.
  • So, you get a Highway Traffic Act ticket. You hire and pay a paralegal to “take care of it”. The paralegal pleads you guilty, files a bogus appeal and does nothing more. How would you feel?
  • “POLITICIANS CAN NEVER RESIST THE URGE TO TURN A MESSY LEGAL CASE INTO A CHEAP POLITICAL PROP” This refers specifically to DOUG FORD and PIERRE POILIEVRE. But then, the lack of knowledge of the facts never restrains their political proclamations. Michael Spratt explains:
  • THE DIRTY TRICK OF SPEED CAMERAS – It’s about making common conduct an offence for money. Their real purpose is to raise revenue and not to increase safety. The fact is that posted speed limits are not calibrated to the speed of the flow of traffic and are not intended to be strictly enforced. Travelling at or below the speed limit is usually, in practical terms, dangerous. (Try it some time.) Speed camera thresholds do not accommodate reality.
  • The Freedom Convoy’s favourite lawyer has been disbarred.
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