International Law

Web 2.0 becomes Landmark Word

Posted on June 17, 2009
According to news reports, "Web 2.0" which refers to the second generation of web development became the millionth word in the English Language. MSN news reports that on June 10th 2009 Texas-based Global Language Monitor, which monitors the English Language, announced that Web 2...

Iran Reality Check

Posted on June 16, 2009
I am inclined to agree with John Cole's comments in The Blogger Coverage of Iran that the blogosphere's enthusiastic endorsement of allegations of election fraud in Iran has been slightly overblown and, from a factual standpoint, a bit hard to swallow...

Twitter Downtime Delayed to Aid Iran Communications

Posted on June 16, 2009
Twitter has jumped into the political fray, acknowledging the critical role it is playing in Iran, with this announcement:Down Time RescheduledA critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight...

Phoenix Judge Rejects Balsillie's Hamilton NHL Bid

Posted on June 15, 2009
Via CBC:Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie's bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes and move the NHL team to Hamilton was rejected Monday by an Arizona bankruptcy judge.Balsillie, the co-CEO of Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, had imposed a June 29 deadline to complete the sale ? hoping to speed up the process and have the team ready to play in Hamilton for the 2009-10 season...

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That Facebook URL Thing

Posted on June 14, 2009
I caught the Facebook url bug today, so you can now find us @: www.facebook.com/garryjwiseAnd for those who prefer to tweet:https://twitter.com/wiselaw- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

On Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Abella

Posted on June 12, 2009
Writer Kirk Makin profiles Madame Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada in today's Globe and Mail:Five years after Judge Abella arrived on the court, the jury is in. Having largely silenced critics of her public profile and vocal support of social causes, Judge Abella has emerged as a tower of strength in her favoured fields - family law, employment law, youth criminal justice and human rights...

Canadian Human Rights Commission Releases Report on Section 13 Hate Provision

Posted on June 12, 2009
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has tabled a report to Parliament on the nation's hate laws.Titled Special Report to Parliament - Freedom of Expression and Freedom from Hate in the Internet Age, the report recommends amendments to Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Code...

California Marketing Executive Awarded $4.1.Billion in Wrongful Dismissal Suit

Posted on June 12, 2009
A California arbitrator has awarded a marketing executive compensation of $4.1 billion in a wrongful dismissal claim. Via World of Work:An arbitrator recently awarded $4.1 billion in favor of the former chief marketing officer of iFreedom Communications Inc...

International Enforcement of Ontario Child Support Orders

Posted on June 12, 2009
In response to an enquiry today, I thought it would be useful to post the folllowing links from the Ministry of Justice, detailing the nations with which Ontario and other Canadian provinces have reciprocal child support enforcement arrangements:AfricaAsiaCaribbeanEuropeSouth PacificUnited States of America- Garry J...

Rachel's Bits and Briefs

Posted on June 08, 2009
Food Fight If you have been out and about in Toronto lately, you may have noticed the A La Cart vendors that have been popping up.If not, you?re in for a treat. The Toronto Sun reported on a decision last December by Toronto City Council to allow the Toronto Public Health pilot project ?A La Cart...

Increased Canadian Recognition for Law Degrees From India

Posted on June 08, 2009
The Hindu News Update Service reports on new, relaxed accreditation standards that will ease the way for lawyers from India and other Asian countries to qualify to practice law in Canada:"The National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) has decided that three-year full-time law degrees from Common Law Countries including India, England and Australia should be treated equivalently regardless of their country of origin...

Great Headline of the Day

Posted on June 08, 2009
Lawers' Cereal Litigation Suffers Crunching Blow from On Point News:Froot Loops, Berry Berry Kix and Fruity Cheerios have all recently been the targets of false advertising lawsuits filed by three lawyers. But a judge may have ended this outbreak of cereal litigation by throwing out a case involving Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries...

Lawyers Got Their Blue Jeans On

Posted on June 08, 2009
It's not quite blue jeans on Bay Street, but at least one San Francisco firm has opted for comfort over style in its summer "dress code" for lawyers. In a breakthrough for legal couture, blue jeans will be de rigueur this summer at Latham & Watkins? San Francisco office...

Canada's Mayors Respond to "Buy American" Plan

Posted on June 07, 2009
Canada's mayors have announced their own plan for retailiation against U.S. "buy-American" mandates. From CBC's Canadian mayors pass anti-'Buy American' resolution:In response to the 'Buy American' provisions of the U.S. stimulus package, Canada's mayors narrowly passed a resolution Saturday that could potentially block U...

Law Professor "Outed" as Anonymos Blogger

Posted on June 07, 2009
A South Texas College of Law professor's identity has been "outed" by lawyer and National Review commentator, Ed Whelan, in apparent retaliation for a garden-variety, blogospheric row over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's views regarding judicial policy-making...

Taser Creep

Posted on June 05, 2009
Orin Kerr at Volokh reports on a Niagara County Court ruling against a motion for suppression of DNA evidence forcibly obtained when police "tased" a suspect's to obtain his "compliance" with a warrant requiring that his DNA be collected for testing...

Neilson: Facebook Is Social Media Leader

Posted on June 05, 2009
Lawyers looking for the optimal point of entry into Web 2.0, take note.  Neilson reports Facebook still holds the web's social networking crown.  But Twitter is growing quickly:According to Nielsen?s research, Facebook is still top dog when it comes to social networking, amassing approximately 13...

On Obama in Cairo

Posted on June 05, 2009
My friend, Avrum Rosensweig has a wonderul blog, with a very thoughtful piece today on President Obama's speech in Cairo - Obama?s Cairo Speech: Half the Room is Standing:President Obama?s speech today was as powerful and groundbreaking as one could have expected...

"Friending" the Judge

Posted on June 01, 2009
Another episode in our continuing series,  Facebook meets the judicial system and goodness knows where that will lead....This time, a North Carolina judge has been reprimanded for "friending" husband's counsel in a pending family law case, and having the occasional chat about the proceeding on Facebook - while trial was in progress...

The Bush Clinton Toronto Debate

Posted on May 30, 2009
We'll have our full report on this event shortly.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Clinton and Bush: The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Summit in Toronto

Posted on May 30, 2009
Wise Law Blog's Garry J. Wise attended at the Bush - Clinton Summit at the Toronto Convention Centre on May 29, 2009. His report follows:It was an event where cordiality would certainly trump controversy. This, perhaps, was not surprising, given the conservative tone established by a banking executive's introduction of Bill Clinton...

Sotomayor - Running A "Hot Bench"

Posted on May 29, 2009
On Justice Sotomayor's courtroom demeanour:?They call it a hot bench when a judge asks a lawyer a lot of questions ? well, she isn?t afraid of running a hot bench,? said H. Raymond Fasano, Republican immigration lawyer who has appeared before her 24 times, mostly in asylum cases, and is a fan...

But It's Not Google

Posted on May 29, 2009
Microsoft intoduces Bing, its new search engine, and New York Times writer Miguel Helft observes:Meanwhile, some tech people were already noting that Bing is also an unfortunate acronym: ?But It?s Not Google.?- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

Clinton and Bush Toronto "Debate Today

Posted on May 29, 2009
.. and Wise Law Blog will be there.  Expect our full report on the event later tonight.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Great Headline of the Day

Posted on May 28, 2009
Rahm "Hava Nagila" Emanuel Turns Springsteen Jewish.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Judging Sotomayor (in One Sentence or Less)

Posted on May 28, 2009
Scholars, lawyers and even one of our favourite U.S. law bloggers weigh in on Justice Sotomayor's judicial record in a New Yok Times article today.See Sotomayor?s Appellate Opinions Are Unpredictable, Lawyers and Scholars Say.The article falls quite a bit short...

Esquire's Worst Lawyer Ads Ever

Posted on May 28, 2009
Seeing is believing.  More at Esquire's Five Lawyer Ads That Make Any Supreme Court Candidate Look Brilliant:- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

The Conservative Stacking of U.S. Federal Courts

Posted on May 27, 2009
As the silly season commences with full-tilt conservative attacks upon President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, an L.A. Times blog article addresses the cumulative impact of the Bush adminstration's eight years of federal judicial appointments:Legal scholars have observed that proponents of gay marriage have avoided taking the issue to federal court so far because of the dominance of conservative judges and justices on the federal bench after the eight-year tenure of President George W...

Back from Space

Posted on May 26, 2009
His Hubble Space Telescope repairs now safely behind him, Space Shuttle astronaut Mike Massimino (a.k.a. Astro_Mike) has returned to our planet, and continues to playfully tweet on his experiences:Getting re-adjusted to gravity, let go of a small bag of groceries and must have expected it to float, luckily no damage...

N.Y.Times: Not Enough Lawyers...

Posted on May 26, 2009
...to handle an expected General Motors bankruptcy:How many lawyers will end up working on G.M.'s expected bankruptcy case still is not clear, but in legal circles, the joke is that there may not be enough experienced bankruptcy lawyers available to handle the filing...

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