Jurors in three recent cases were discovered conducting their own online research, despite strict instructions from judges to consider only the evidence raised in court.
Source: How Google-happy jurors are derailing Ontario trials | The Star
UNINTENDED IMMIGRATION CONSEQUENCES OF INCREASING THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR IMPAIRED DRIVING TO 10 YEARS.
Canadian lawyers’ associations say the Liberal government’s new impaired driving offences could lead to “significant strain” on the immigration system and at the border from increases in deportations, inadmissibility, appeals and administrative burden. The new ten-year maximum penalty provisions in Bill C-46 bring impaired driving offences under ‘serious criminality’ in Canadian law. That means just […]
Source: Liberals’ impaired driving regime could lead to deportations, border ‘strain’ – iPolitics
The status of mandatory minimum sentences in Canada.
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TELL THE TRUTH OR NO? – Look, I simply repost this as a PSA. Blair’s advice to tell the truth about pot at the border is ‘dangerous,’ U.S. lawyer warns
Liberal MP Bill Blair’s advice to “always tell the truth” if asked about past marijuana use by U.S. border officials is “dangerous,” a U.S. immigration lawyer says.
Source: Blair’s advice to tell the truth about pot at the border is ‘dangerous,’ U.S. lawyer warns
CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKS AND NON-CONVICTION RECORDS – Finally, after almost 2 years we’ll have the protection people need from mere allegations made to the police.
Nearly three years after it was passed unanimously by the Ontario legislature, the Police Record Checks Reform Act will become law on Nov. 1. It will severely limit the release of police “non-conviction records” that have thwarted careers and ruined lives, as detailed in a Star investigation.
Source: Law protecting Ontarians from disclosure of police records finally gets green light | The Star
The development of large-scale cultivation and distribution of medical cannabis in Canada is so sophisticated that it’s business model is a template sought by other countries.
The world was watching as Canada established a unique federal approach to the cultivation and distribution of medical cannabis.
Source: Canada’s “world-class template” has set the stage for European countries | Financial Post
Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen is the most notorious alum of Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, the worst law school in America.
Michael Cohen’s alma mater has long been a punchline in the legal world.
Source: Trump’s Lawyer Went to the Worst Law School in America
SUBTLE ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR – Stonewalling, Gaslighting, Duplicity, Guilt, Memory Loss and Sarcasm. Learn to recognize them.
Much is written about overt abusive behavior, the kind of in-your-face actions that are easily recognizable to virtually anyone. Those more obvious forms of abusive behavior include behaviors such as yelling, screaming, name calling, threatening and intimidating as well as physical forms of violence such as hitting, kicking, pushing, shoving and strangulation up to stabbing […]
Source: The Six Strategies of Subtle Emotional and Psychological Abuse
WHAT IS THE AGE OF CONSENT? – Let’s be clear. The age of legal ability to consent for sexual purposes is 16 years of age EXCEPT if you pay in any respect for any sexual purpose or service, THEN the age of consent is 18 years of age. Make sure you know the difference.
A Charlottetown man who promised to pay a girl big money for a photo shoot at the beach has been sentenced to six months in jail, after coaxing the 17-year old youth into sending nude photos of herself.
Source: 6 months jail for man who lured teen into sending nude photos | CBC News