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If it is true, as they say, that the controlled environment of jail is safer than the outside world, why aren’t we all doing what we have to do to get ourselves in?

https://www.thestar.com/podcasts/thismatters/2020/04/28/what-its-like-inand-once-youre-out-ofjail-during-covid-19.html?source=newsletter&utm_content=a07&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=0B41BB051FF7EA38DB4BDD5E33BA3AB2&utm_campaign=tmh_24233

Posted bywpengine2 May 2020Posted inUncategorized

Practicalities of Being a Remote Covid-19 Criminal Lawyer –

Some basic etiquette it looks like we are all going to have to learn.

 

https://supremeadvocacy.ca/2020/04/29/practicalities-of-being-a-remote-covid-19-criminal-lawyer/

Posted bywpengine30 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

VETERAN CROWN ATTORNEY DIES OF COVID-19

If you don’t think this is serious, “the physician wrote that Tse was “the healthiest COVID-19 patient he had ever seen, with no underlying health conditions.” Tse played tennis three times a week and worked out at least once a week on an aerobic machine.” RIP Sandy.

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https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/veteran-crown-attorney-dies-of-covid-19

Posted bywpengine29 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

WILL AN INDEPENDANT CRIMINAL DEFENCE BAR SURVIVE COVID-19?

The Criminal Lawyers’ Association stepped up and sent many of its members into harms way in the courts “to defend and rescue, most often for no fee, individuals in need of bail hearings and those languishing in custody.”

Bill Trudell

https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/we-must-act-before-covid-19-spells-the-end-of-an-independent-criminal-bar/329094

 

Posted bywpengine29 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

MARCO MUZZO GRANTED DAY PAROLE – This is going to cause a stir in the community.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6876806/marco-muzzo-drunk-driver-parole-neville-lake-family/?fbclid=IwAR17b39RryBd-NOYG1JgyjFdhbC9I71zq41RJ-QwpPLCeLXTgPQNqP5GJzw

 

Posted bywpengine28 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

NOTICE TO THE PROFESSION April 21, 2020 – All criminal and civil jury trials are suspended until September 2020 at the earliest.

https://www.ontariocourts.ca/scj/notice-suspension-criminal-and-civil-jury-trials

 

Posted bywpengine21 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

NOTICE TO THE PROFESSION April 21, 2020 – All criminal and civil jury trials are suspended until September 2020 at the earliest.

https://www.oba.org/CBAMediaLibrary/cba_on/pdf/COVID19/CriminalCIVILJurySuspensionApril2020.pdf?utm_source=LYR&utm_medium=EM&utm_campaign=PD

 

Posted bywpengine21 April 202021 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

ONTARIO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTE (Brampton jail) IS SHUT DOWN.

Inmates are being moved to Toronto South where some have already tested positive. April 20, 2020

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/04/19/exclusive-sources-say-brampton-jail-to-shut-down-amid-outbreak-of-covid-19/

 

Posted bywpengine20 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

Pandemic leaves criminal lawyers out of work and without help –

We’re just like you, stuck at home and out of work.

Pandemic leaves criminal lawyers out of work and without help

https://www.toronto.com/news-story/9955653-pandemic-leaves-criminal-lawyers-out-of-work-and-without-help/

 

Posted bywpengine19 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

THERE IS NO SHAME

Powerful insight which should cause us to re-examine our whole approach to incarceration.

https://vimeo.com/398088783?ref=fb-share&1&fbclid=IwAR1LU0yQVvVx0ZmwjsIlyrvLtyo3M2Aqbs-SUIFfg_RCyxY2XD5aayHgCys

 

Posted bywpengine14 April 2020Posted inUncategorized

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