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Aboriginal people make up a large proportion of the people in prison in Canada. Nearly 20 years ago the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the large number of aboriginal prisoners “may reasonably be termed a crisis.”
So to try to limit the number of aboriginal prisoners, Parliament and the courts...
Incompetent treatment by medical practitioners is quite rare.
That’s why, when it does happen, incompetent medical care is a big news story. It’s a bit like the example of how safe airplanes are—a plane crash is so unusual that it gets front page coverage.
All that said, sometimes errors are made...
In general, witnesses are expected to say what they saw, heard, smelled or somehow perceived. They are not supposed to give their opinions about what happened.
The idea is that you put all the facts before the court and then let the court take those facts and come to conclusions about what...
It would seem obvious that lawyers in court are to dress appropriately but what does appropriately mean? Is a tie always required for men? Must women wear a skirt or dress?
It seems almost unbelievable, but when I started being a lawyer, there were Ontario judges who would refuse to allow a woman...
WILLIAM H. FLOWERS
My favorite writer, Stephen King, has an acronym for the expression “same old:” SSDD, “same stuff, different day.” Only he doesn’t use the word stuff, but it is a term he likes to use as shorthand.
I think if Stephen King were monitoring what’s been going on in Canada lately,...
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