International Law

Sunday Tunes: Who Fought the Law?

Posted on March 30, 2008
The weekend is upon us, so let's take a stroll through the YouTube archives to canvas a classic rebel-rock tune with a storied history:"I Fought the Law" is a much-covered song originally recorded by Sonny Curtis and The Crickets (post Buddy Holly) in 1959...

Maybe Next Year....

Posted on March 28, 2008
The Toronto Maple Leafs have once again been eliminated from N.H.L. post-season contention.With a 4-2 loss to the Bruins in Boston Thursday night, the team mathematically sealed its unhappy fate for the third consecutive year. Toronto's second-favorite spectator sport - Leaf post mortems, recriminations and off-season dramas - may now accordingly begin...

Maybe Next Year....

Posted on March 28, 2008
The Toronto Maple Leafs have once again been eliminated from N.H.L. post-season contention.With a 4-2 loss to the Bruins in Boston Thursday night, the team mathematically sealed its unhappy fate for the third consecutive year. Toronto's second-favorite spectator sport - Leaf post mortems, recriminations and off-season dramas - may now accordingly begin...

Quotable: On Racism's 'Aesthetic Makeover'

Posted on March 28, 2008
Serious food for thought from David Sirota at Truthdig: Since the 1960s, bigotry has undergone an aesthetic makeover. Today, the most pernicious racists do not wear pointy hoods, scream epithets and anonymously burn crosses from behind masks. They don starched suits, recite sententious bromides and stage political lynchings before television cameras...

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Polygraph Results Ruled Inadmissible in Ontario Civil Courts

Posted on March 28, 2008
Via the always exceptional Cavanaugh Williams law blog, this report on a decision of the Ontario Divisional Court, ruling polygraph test results are inadmissible as evidence in Ontario civil court proceedings: Justice Quinn reviewed the law. He said that evidence that a person has offered to submit to polygraph testing can be admissible, but that was a neutral factor here, since both parties had made such an offer...

Matlow Inquiry Continuing April 8, 2008

Posted on March 28, 2008
According to a Canada News Wire release today, the inquiry into the conduct of the Honourable Judge Ted Matlow of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will be continuing with the hearing of fresh evidence next month:The Honourable Clyde Wells, Chief Justice of Newfoundland and Labrador and Chairperson of the Inquiry Committee created to review the conduct of the Honourable Theodore Matlow, has indicated that the Inquiry Committee will be reconvening its proceedings to hear further evidence in this matter...

Quotable: On Racism's 'Aesthetic Makeover'

Posted on March 27, 2008
Serious food for thought from David Sirota at Truthdig: Since the 1960s, bigotry has undergone an aesthetic makeover. Today, the most pernicious racists do not wear pointy hoods, scream epithets and anonymously burn crosses from behind masks. They don starched suits, recite sententious bromides and stage political lynchings before television cameras...

Polygraph Results Ruled Inadmissible in Ontario Civil Courts

Posted on March 27, 2008
Via the always exceptional Cavanaugh Williams law blog, this report on a decision of the Ontario Divisional Court, ruling polygraph test results are inadmissible as evidence in Ontario civil court proceedings: Justice Quinn reviewed the law. He said that evidence that a person has offered to submit to polygraph testing can be admissible, but that was a neutral factor here, since both parties had made such an offer...

Matlow Inquiry Continuing April 8, 2008

Posted on March 27, 2008
According to a Canada News Wire release today, the inquiry into the conduct of the Honourable Judge Ted Matlow of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will be continuing with the hearing of fresh evidence next month:The Honourable Clyde Wells, Chief Justice of Newfoundland and Labrador and Chairperson of the Inquiry Committee created to review the conduct of the Honourable Theodore Matlow, has indicated that the Inquiry Committee will be reconvening its proceedings to hear further evidence in this matter...

Legal Outsourcing to India

Posted on March 25, 2008
In the not too distant past, when people in the west thought of India, they thought of a country of sadhus, snake-charmers and saris; a country of tigers and elephants, poverty and congestion. Those images are still very much a part of popular western perceptions of India...

Legal Outsourcing to India

Posted on March 25, 2008
In the not too distant past, when people in the west thought of India, they thought of a country of sadhus, snake-charmers and saris; a country of tigers and elephants, poverty and congestion. Those images are still very much a part of popular western perceptions of India...

SCC: Khadr Appeal May Consider Legality of Guantanamo Detentions

Posted on March 25, 2008
In a series of preliminary decisions, the Supreme Court Canada reiterated March 20, 2008 that it will allow a wide latitude of argument in its hearing of the Omar Khadr case as to "the legality of the detentions at Guantanamo in international law, and whether the Charter was breached by some form of Canadian complicity by interviewing [Mr...

The Angry Judge

Posted on March 24, 2008
For good reason....Texas Defense Lawyer Jailed Over Lewd Courtroom Gesture - ABA Journal:A Texas defense lawyer representing a client in a DUI case was jailed briefly last week after he allegedly made a lewd gesture to let the judge know what he thought of a prosecution complaint in the case...

The Blogging Judge

Posted on March 24, 2008
Slate Magazine's blog on legal issues, Convictions, has a new contributor. She is Nancy Gertner, a United States District Court judge for the District of Massachusetts.Am I the only one who see a problem with this?- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

The Dialogue on Race in America

Posted on March 24, 2008
Barack Obama has called for dialogue on race in America. Well, that long-overdue dialogue has begun. And not surprisingly, it isn't pretty. Here are three must reads from two leading American commentators:Wright And Wrong - DigbyOne of Instapundit's favorite blogs speaks on race - Salon: Glenn GreenwaldThe difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers - Salon: Glenn Greenwald And while we're on this topic, in case you have not seen the entire clip, here is Reverend Jeremiah Wright's controversial post-911 speech that was at the genesis of last week's fiasco: Below is a further clip, in which the Reverend opines very directly on the nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: - Garry J...

The Funny Judge

Posted on March 24, 2008
National Review delivers an instant classic in the rare art of comedic judicial reasoning, penned by Texas U.S. District Judge, Samuel B. Kent:Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation...

SCC: Khadr Appeal May Consider Legality of Guantanamo Detentions in International Law

Posted on March 24, 2008
In a series of preliminary decisions, the Supreme Court Canada reiterated March 20, 2008 that it will allow a wide latitude of argument in its hearing of the Omar Khadr case as to "the legality of the detentions at Guantanamo in international law, and whether the Charter was breached by some form of Canadian complicity by interviewing [Mr...

The Funny Judge

Posted on March 24, 2008
National Review delivers an instant classic in the rare art of comedic judicial reasoning, penned by Texas U.S. District Judge, Samuel B. Kent:Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation...

The Angry Judge

Posted on March 24, 2008
Well, actually, two angry judges.One who was angry for good reason.... Texas Defense Lawyer Jailed Over Lewd Courtroom Gesture - from ABA Journal:A Texas defense lawyer representing a client in a DUI case was jailed briefly last week after he allegedly made a lewd gesture to let the judge know what he thought of a prosecution complaint in the case...

The Blogging Judge

Posted on March 24, 2008
Slate Magazine's blog on legal issues, Convictions, has a new contributor. She is Nancy Gertner, a United States District Court judge for the District of Massachusetts.Am I the only one who see a problem with this?- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

The Dialogue on Race in America

Posted on March 24, 2008
Barack Obama has called for dialogue on race in America. Well, that long-overdue dialogue has begun. And not surprisingly, it isn't pretty. Here are three must reads from two leading American commentators:Wright And Wrong - DigbyOne of Instapundit's favorite blogs speaks on race - Salon: Glenn GreenwaldThe difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers - Salon: Glenn Greenwald And while we're on this topic, in case you have not seen the entire clip, here is Reverend Jeremiah Wright's controversial post-911 speech that was at the genesis of last week's fiasco: Below is a further clip, in which the Reverend opines very directly on the nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: - Garry J...

8-year-old Passes Law School Entry Exam in Brazil

Posted on March 23, 2008
The Canadian Press Reports: An eight-year-old boy with dreams of becoming a judge has passed a law school entrance exam, shocking Brazil's legal profession and prompting a federal investigation. The Universidade Paulista, a multi-campus private university, issued a statement acknowledging that Joao Victor Portellinha de Oliveira had passed the entrance exam and that it initially enrolled him...

Happy Easter!

Posted on March 23, 2008
In his annual Easter mass, Pope Benedict called for peace in the world, citing specifically the regions of Iraq, Tibet and Darfur. He also baptized an Egyptian born Muslim man, which the Vatican explained in a statement released earlier, was in the spirit of Christianity as all newcomers to the religion are "equally important before God's love and welcome in the community of the Church"...

EU to Study Beijing Olympic Boycott over Tibet

Posted on March 23, 2008
The President of the European Union has called upon the EU to study a boycott of the Beijing Summer Olympics over China's continuing strife in Tibet:European countries should consider a boycott of the Olympics in Beijing if the Chinese government continues to take a hardline attitude to unrest in Tibet, according to the president of the European parliament...

8-year-old Passes Law School Entry Exam in Brazil

Posted on March 23, 2008
The Associated Press reports on this odd law school tale out of Brazil: An eight-year-old boy with dreams of becoming a judge has passed a law school entrance exam, shocking Brazil's legal profession and prompting a federal investigation.The Universidade Paulista, a multi-campus private university, issued a statement acknowledging that Joao Victor Portellinha de Oliveira had passed the entrance exam and that it initially enrolled him...

Pope Calls for Peace in Iraq, Tibet, Darfur

Posted on March 23, 2008
In his annual Easter mass, Pope Benedict called for peace in the world, citing specifically the regions of Iraq, Tibet and Darfur. He also baptized an Egyptian born Muslim man, which the Vatican explained in a statement released earlier, was in the spirit of Christianity as all newcomers to the religion are "equally important before God's love and welcome in the community of the Church"...

EU to Study Beijing Olympic Boycott over Tibet

Posted on March 23, 2008
The President of the European Union has called upon the EU to study a boycott of the Beijing Summer Olympics over China's continuing strife in Tibet:European countries should consider a boycott of the Olympics in Beijing if the Chinese government continues to take a hardline attitude to unrest in Tibet, according to the president of the European parliament...

BBC Video: Tent Cities Spring Up In U.S. Due To Mortgage Crisis

Posted on March 22, 2008
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

Obama Rules

Posted on March 22, 2008
Finally I get it.These are The Rules of the Democratic nomination battle, as adopted by supporters of the Barack Obama campaign:Rule 1:Every word Barack Obama (or any one of his supporters) shall utter shall be deemed to be historic, monumental and self-evidently, as pronouncing a higher truth never before heard...

Video: "It's Raining McCain...?"

Posted on March 22, 2008
Meet the McCain Girls... - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

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