On March 1, the Manitoba Court of Appeal released its decision in R. v. Moquin, 2010 MBCA 22. In doing so, the Court of Appeal visited how to properly distinguish between the crime of “assault” (s. 265 of the Criminal Code) and the crime of “assault...
On March 9th, 2010, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Danso-Coffey v. Ontario, 2010 ONCA 171. The case deals with an individual who is named a director of a corporation without her consent or knowledge. Danso-Coffey was owned and...
In order to pull my weight in solidifying the general reputation of law students as somewhat nerdish types who just…can’t…get…enough…law, I recently picked up The Nine, journalist Jeffrey Toobin’s behind the scenes look at the U.S. Supreme...
Old Legal Debts and the Indian Act
The Financial Legal Post’s Julius Melnitzer says that Borden Ladner Gervais’ appeal in Borden & Elliot v. Temagami First Nation “is shaping up as potentially embarrassing to BLG, if not downright ugly.” Others might...
In 1992, a striking gold miner in the Northwest Territories (NWT) planted a bomb which killed nine replacement workers. The ensuing judicial saga, in which the widows of the murdered men sought compensation in tort from the security company guarding...
