https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/via-rail-terror-plot-new-trial-1.5261349
NON-OFFENDING PEDOPHILES – This is a difficult topic.
Getting help for pedophilia is risky in the U.S., where therapists are obligated to report people they deem a threat to children.
Source: The Men Who Call Themselves Non-Offending Pedophiles
STUDENT RUN LEGAL CLINICS PROVIDE IMPORTANT SERVICES – “Law school clinics not only provide legal services to those who cannot otherwise afford them — a feat in its own rite given that clinic workers help tenants keep their homes, workers keep their jobs and parents keep their children. They are also key hubs for experiential learning, especially in areas where the access to justice crisis in Ontario has become most dire, such as housing and immigration. For law students across the province, an attack on our clinics is an attack on our future.”
U of T law student Teodora Pasca says Legal aid cuts and the Student Choice Initiative threaten the future of the legal profession
Source: The Ontario government is destroying university legal clinics
POLITICIANS GONNA POLITIC – Vulnerable immigrants and refugees gonna suffer.
Michael Spratt analyses the aftermath of Ontario’s Legal Aid funding cuts
Source: When Legal Aid is a political prop, Access to justice suffers
Janayre Marie Smith Vaughan
THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT – DOES IT STILL APPLY IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES?
Trying to set a level playing field in situations as fraught as sexual assault cases is exceedingly complex. But governments have tried. Last year, when Bill C-51 took effect, the rules in sexual assault trials changed so that, if a defendant’s
Source: EDITORIAL: Sexual assault law a tricky balance | The Chronicle Herald
IMPORTANT FOR LAW STUDENTS AND PARALEGALS AND THE LAWYERS AND CLIENT WHO USE THEIR SERVICES – The Ontario government has issued an order-in-council to designate authority to the Law Society to determine who has the ability to appear in summary conviction court as a regulated agent.
RIGHT TO COUNSEL – When a person is arrested they have the right to consult (talk to) a lawyer “OF THEIR CHOICE” even if the police try to steer them towards using duty counsel.
Criminal Law – Charter of Rights And Freedoms – Charter remedies [s. 24]
Source: Charter protected interest was high as accused was mentally ill and experiencing panic attack
PLAYING POLITICS WITH IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEES, AND LEGAL AID.
The federal government will fill the funding gap made by Ontario’s cuts to legal aid, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday afternoon — a “one-time top-up” of $26.8 million for immigrant and refugee legal services, which were left in lurch after the provincial slash. “We shouldn’t be having to make this announcement,” a ‘frustrated’ […]
Source: Federal government to temporarily fill funding cuts to Legal Aid Ontario – iPolitics
