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For many years now my firm, Adler Bytensky Prutschi, has enjoyed the opportunity to host a student placement for Osgoode Hall Law School’s Criminal Intensive Program (CIP). This week, for the first time in the history of our involvement with the program, we were informed that “due to low enrolment in the course this [...]
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Supporting Our Troops by Supporting Their Employers
Yesterday’s National Post contained an interesting story regarding government programs around the world targeted at employers of military reservists. In an effort to support troops overseas legislators in the U.K. and Australia have enhanced job protection laws while simultaneously creating compensation programs that pay employers of reservists a stipend to help offset the loss [...]
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Cruelty to Animals or Injustice to Humans?
From time to time, two news-worthy stories intersect in such a way that they just cry out for comment.
Much has been made in the media these past few weeks of the high-profile arrests of several prominent members of the Toronto Humane Society (THS). These accuseds have been vilified in the public consciousness and stained [...]
Crime Traveller – Gearing up for the Games
Another (hopefully) welcome diversion for all those toiling in the legal field. Head over to Precedent Magazine to read my latest story. Gearing up for the Games covers my efforts to design the perfect Vancouver 2010 get-away for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games without re-mortgaging my home.
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Taxing Justice
The HST is coming and its ramifications for those who practice law and those who purchase legal services is going to be extreme.
While other industries (notably mutual funds, auto, and real estate) are all engaged in full-court-press mode as they lobby the Ontario government for exemptions, we in the legal services field have remained disturbingly [...]
The Crime Traveller: Costa Rica
Another welcome diversion from the stressors of our daily legal lives.
Head over to Precedent Magazine to read my most recent travel column. Destination: Costa Rica.
Introducing The Crime Traveller
Allow me this short shameless plug for my latest endeavour. If you’re looking for an entertaining diversion from the high-stress practice of law, head on over to Precedent Magazine where you can read my first entry in a monthly travel column, cheekily entitled The Crime Traveller. This week, I bring you the adventures [...]
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Random roadside breath testing coming to Canada?
Sometimes it actually hurts to be right.
If you’ve followed any of my earlier comments on twitter, in the media, or in this space on Slaw (Ontario’s New Road Safety Act) you will be familiar with my growing predictions that Canada is moving towards legalized random breath alcohol testing. Never in my wildest dreams did [...]
Jumping the Fence: from police officer to defence lawyer
Members of the Slaw community might remember an article I wrote some weeks ago entitled Twittercles in which I marvelled at the impact Twitter had on our student recruitment this year.
As a follow-up, I invite you to read a wonderful piece authored by the student Twitter helped us to discover, Joel Welch. As a [...]
Stunt Driving law unconstitutional…for now.
The controversial cash grab…er, law…known as s. 172(1) of the Highway Traffic Act along with Regulation 455/07 have been deemed unconstiutional by a Judge in Napanee in the case of R v. Rahman (unfortunately, the case is not currently reported and therefore I cannot provide a full text of the decision but thank you to [...]
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Twittercles
Another year of interview insanity has come to an end and my firm, Adler Bytensky Prutschi, has happily matched with an outstanding candidate who we have very high hopes for in the 2010-2011 articling year. While this fact on its own is likely of little interest to Slaw readers, the technophile lawyers who follow [...]
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The Other Face of Charter Violations
Last week I posted my commentary here on Slaw on the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in R. v. Grant.
To recap briefly, Grant was a young black male who aroused the suspicions of some police by staring at them and “fidgeting”. Hardly “reasonable grounds” to conduct an investigative [...]
SCC decision in R. v. Grant: Do the ends justify the means?
The highly anticipated Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) judgment in R. v. Grant was released this morning. Grant was a young black man walking in a neighbourhood patrolled by both plainclothes and uniformed police. During a routine patrol, plainclothes officers stated grant “stared” at them and began “fidgeting”. A uniformed officer was [...]
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Presumption of Innocence Now Meaningless in Ontario?
Back in April I wrote a somewhat sarcastic article here on slaw.ca criticising the new Road Safety Act (“RSA”) as allowing “convictions without trials” (http://www.slaw.ca/2009/04/22/8208/). The story took on a bit of a life of its own resulting in some TV appearances that in turn generated a fair bit of commentary from the general [...]
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Ontario’s new Road Safety Act – convictions without trials?
On April 21, 2009 the Ontario Road Safety Act (RSA) passed through final reading creating a host of changes that will come into effect in the coming months. The government’s executive summary of the act is available at http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2009/04/21/c3780.html?lmatch=&lang=_e.html for anyone who wishes to peruse it.
As one might expect, the RSA is overflowing with [...]
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