International Law

Will Cadman 'Bribe' Scandal Undo Harper Government?

Posted on March 03, 2008
Stage 1:The naming of a scandal...Cadscam. - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

Jeff Healy, March 25, 1966 ? March 2, 2008

Posted on March 03, 2008
Canadian guitar icon Jeff Healy died Sunday, succumbing after a life-long battle with cancer. He was 41.His website issued the following statement:Jeff Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, died today (Sunday March 2) in St...

Conrad Black: "My Faith In The United States Has Inspired Me To Persevere"

Posted on March 03, 2008
As he prepares to report to a Florida prison today to begin serving a 6½-year sentence, all avenues of appeal exhausted for the moment, Conrad Black delivers an unrepentant op-ed in today's New York Sun: It is a terrible thing to be falsely accused, and wrongly convicted, even of a fraction of the original charges, and unjustly incarcerated...

Quote of the Week

Posted on March 02, 2008
New Democratic Member of Parliament, Pat Martin, Vice-Chair of theParliamentary Ethics Committee, on former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: I think his unwillingness to attend speaks volumes. The only conclusion that Canadians can draw is that he has something to hide and he doesn't want anybody digging any deeper...

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Jack Nicholson: Who Do You Trust?

Posted on March 01, 2008
Jack and Hill:- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

Clinton 2.1

Posted on February 29, 2008
It certainly looks like Barack Obama's momentum is going to be tough to stop. Nonetheless, I am hardening in my desire to see Hillary Clinton pulls it off. There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Obama magic - perhaps, far too much - but a paucity of genuine analysis as to why Hillary has left so much of her support behind...

Human Rights Commissions: A Reader Wants To Know

Posted on February 29, 2008
Frequent commenter Allan was apparently perturbed that I devoted space to last weekend's Mats Sundin trade deadline saga:"Mats Sundin to Stay a Leaf" yeah a really important topic.You have been strangely silent about your darling friends on the kangaroo courts...

Ombudsman Slams Legal Aid Ontario, Province Sues Convicted Cop

Posted on February 27, 2008
According to media reports, the Ontario Government is suing convicted former Toronto Police officer, Richard Wills, to recover $1.2 M of public money spent on his "preposterous" defence of first degree murder charges arising from the death of his long-time lover, Linda Mariani...

As the Press Turns...

Posted on February 27, 2008
"Barack-lash" (?) - America starts to sober up from a heavy dose of Obamamania. - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

Trial Lawyers' Association President: Ontario Motor Vehicle Insurance Law Unconstitutional

Posted on February 26, 2008
Richard Halpern, President of the Ontario Trial Lawyers? Association says the ?verbal threshold? provisions of section 267.5(5) of Ontario's Insurance Act contravene Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Under the legislation, damages awards in personal injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents are subject to a deductible of $30,000...

Honda vs. Keays - Why It Matters

Posted on February 26, 2008
Rare is the employment law case that can capture the continuing attention of both the legal profession and the public. Honda and Keays, however, is one such case. For nearly three years, it has had Canada's employment law bar buzzing, the nation's mainstream media watching and much of the public taking notice...

Mats Sundin To Stay a Leaf

Posted on February 25, 2008
As CBC reports, Leafs' Sundin won't waive no-trade clause. What can I say?I guess he likes us... he really likes us. - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

Oscar Night

Posted on February 25, 2008
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

Videoconferencing - The Next Generation

Posted on February 22, 2008
It's not every day that Law.com cites the Jetsons as an authority to make a point.It does just that in Teleconferencing Gets Ready for Prime Time, an article published February 22 that heralds the arrival of high-definition videoconferencing as a legal technology solution: Ever since cartoon character Jane Jetson chatted away on her videophone in 1962, teleconferencing has been on the wish list of just about everybody...

County to Appeal New York Ruling that Recognized Canadian Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on February 22, 2008
Last weekend, we wrote about Martinez v. Monroe, a landmark decision of a New York State appellate court in Rochester that recognized a Canadian same-sex marriage as legally valid in the state.Pursuant to the decision, Monroe Community College was required to provide spousal benefits to the same-sex spouse of one of its employees...

Mats Sundin's Moment of Truth

Posted on February 22, 2008
As even casual watchers of the NHL's pending trade deadline know, we are probably approaching Maple Leaf captain Mats Sundin's final weekend in Toronto.At least one writer indicates a deal is already done - a deal, at least, that is subject to Mr. Sundin's approval...

Cellucci to Canada: "Beware Democrats"

Posted on February 22, 2008
John McCain operative Paul Cellucci, former US Ambassador to Canada, issued a dire warning to Canadians, according to a Toronto Star article today:OTTAWA?A former American ambassador is warning that Canadians' preference for Democratic presidential candidates flies in the face of the problems that their trade policies would present for Canada...

KFC - Kentucky's Official Picnic Food?

Posted on February 22, 2008
From Lowering the Bar: Bill Would Make KFC the "Official Picnic Food of Kentucky:" NOW, THEREFORE,Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 2 IS CREATED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:Original Recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken is designated the official picnic food of Kentucky...

On "Friending" Your Boss and other Facebook Dilemmas in the Workplace

Posted on February 19, 2008
Associated Press writer Melissa Rayworth had a particularly coherent article Sunday on Facebook and the workplace, Should you 'friend' your boss on Facebook? Navigating the workplace perils. Online social networking, originally the playground of pre-workforce Americans, is now commonplace in offices across the country...

Canadian Family Law in 2007 - Year-End Reviews Online

Posted on February 19, 2008
Ontario's first Family Day must have been Family Law Day for DivorceMate's Mark Harris. The company's newsletter, released yesterday, provides links to two important articles of interest to family law lawyers and the Canadian public. See: The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines Three Years Later, a review of the Guidelines and their increasing influence in Canada's family law courts...

Supreme Court of Canada: Jerusalem, Israel Not to Appear as Birthplace on Candian Pasport

Posted on February 18, 2008
When Mr. Eliyahu Veffer was advised that the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs refused to reflect the birthplace on his Canadian passport as ?Jerusalem, Israel?, he commenced an Application for Judicial Review claiming the refusal violated his rights as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...

Golubchuk Update: Manitoba Life-Support Case to Proceed to Trial

Posted on February 18, 2008
Garry has previously written on the Samuael Golubchuk case, now pending in Manitoba, in which two Orthodox Jewish children have requested that a Winnipeg Court prevent a hospital from removing life support and thus ending their father's life.After granting a temporary injunction on December 11, 2007, Justice Perry Schulman of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench ruled last week that the hospital treating Mr...

Bits 'N Briefs

Posted on February 17, 2008
Time to catch up in brief on some interesting, recent developments:An Alberta Court has struck the Province's $4,000 damages cap on soft tissue injuries from motor vehicle accidents. The caps was found to contrave s. 15(1) the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...

Commission: N.J. Civil Unions "Second Class Status" for Gay Couples

Posted on February 17, 2008
From the "Government commission tells us something we already know" department...Raw Story:A commission established to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey has found in its first report that civil unions create a "second-class status" for gay couples, rather than giving them equality...

Facebook: Terrrorist Tool?

Posted on February 16, 2008
According to a Scotland publication, Scotsman.com:RADICAL British Jihadist groups are using Facebook and other social networking sites to recruit members and distribute extremist literature.A private Facebook group called Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah, the name of a successor organisation to the banned extremist group Al Muhajiroun, has been operating since early 2007...

Tainted Evidence: Conflicting Ontario Rulings

Posted on February 16, 2008
The Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in R. v. Harrison appears to narrow the circumstances under which evidence obtained by police without a search warrant may be excluded at criminal trials. Welland Tribune's Tracey Tyler reported on the Harrison case, in which the defendant appealed his conviction on cocaine trafficking charges:The Ontario Court of Appeal has approved the use of evidence obtained through flagrant police misconduct, saying any black eye caused to the justice system is outweighed by public interest in prosecuting a serious crime...

"Don't Use My Song In Your Campaign"

Posted on February 16, 2008
CTV reports that Tom Scholz, founder and lead-songwriter for the rock band Boston, has told Mike Huckabee to stop using the group's song, More than a Feeling, in the Arkansas Governor's quest for the Republican nomination.Sholz is a supporter of Barack Obama...

Who Will Police the Police?

Posted on February 16, 2008
We are seeing far too many of these kinds of incidents.Baltimore:Vancouver Island: Hillsborough County, Florida: - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE

Obama As The New McGovern?

Posted on February 16, 2008
Jeralyn Merrit at Talk Left wonders whether an Obama nomination, effected largely through a strategy of red-state caucus "insurgencies," could set the Democratic Party up for a George McGovern-style general election collapse. Short version: Obama - can he win?- Garry J...

National Lawyers Guild: Justice Scalia "Unfit to Sit" Over Torture Comments

Posted on February 16, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has ignited yet another firestorm over controversial comments regarding torture, made in a BBC interview broadcast last Tuesday.During the interview, Scalia dismissed as "absurd" the suggestion that the U.S. Constitution prohibits the use of physical force in terror-related interrogations: It seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say you couldn't, I don't know, stick something under the fingernail, smack him in the face...

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