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H1N1 Law - Swine Law for a Swine Flu

lduhaime@gmail.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:25:00 GMT

In a state of public health law anarchy, professional hockey players receive a killer flu vaccine while infants and pregnant women wait.

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The Death of the Common Law: Expiry date, 2100

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:07:00 GMT

Just about now, but for the economic might of the United States of America, the last funeral bell tolls of the common law would be fading.

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Gretzky Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:34:00 GMT

The recent Phoenix Coyotes debacle, in which he left behind his job, is not the only time Wayne Gretzky has had to leave from the side exit of a courtroom.

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Fatal Attraction: Gambling's Dark Secret

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:26:00 GMT

The San Fransisco's Golden Gate bridge has competition as a choice location for suicide: your local casino.

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Patrick Roy's Legal Troubles Revisited

lduhaime@gmail.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:18:00 GMT

A satirical portrayal of hockey great Patrick Roy gets French-language CBC-TV (Radio-Canada) its knuckles rapped and revives bad memories for the Hall-of-Famer and his boys.

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The Law Travails of Theoren Fleury

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:16:00 GMT

Theoren Fleury the hockey player is also Theoren Wallace Fleury, defendant in a messy family law action, Fleury v Fleury.

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Hockey Ownership, Like Sausages, ‘tis Better Not to See Them Being Made

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:35:00 GMT

Old boys clubs, money, hoity-toity lawyers, a sexy NHL hockey team for sale (Vancouver Canucks), and a hot squabble, make for a strange brew in the law reports.

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H for Hypocrisy: The National Hockey League's Sub Judice Gambit

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:34:00 GMT

The NHL spins a saga which they hope will filter to and pierce the Lady Justice blindfold of a Phoenix bankruptcy judge.

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Lawyer Non Grata: The Fallacy Of Legal Representation In Canadian Immigration Proceedings

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:01:00 GMT

Canada's immigration department has a thing against lawyers.

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Foul! Foul! Nationalization of Securities Law Poised to Reshape More than Just a Portfolio or Two

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:58:00 GMT

As the federal government prepares to bulldoze in new national securities regulation, to cheers and jeers, more than just another chapter of the revised statutes is on the table.

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Obesity Law: The Rise of the Fat

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:55:00 GMT

Most fat choose to be. But then they reach for human rights law by seeking rights and privileges reserved for the disabled.

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God Law: Christianity's Bosom-Buddy Relationship With the Common Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:27:00 GMT

The state and God have been chums for ages.

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Canine Ferae Naturae: The Statutory Elimination of Naturally Fierce Dogs

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:42:00 GMT

Pit bulls and rottweilers, neither bred nor fit for modern urban life, are proving tough to weed out.

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Holy Aureole: The Female Breast and the Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:39:00 GMT

A kerfuffle over nothing.

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Military Justice: Less of an Oxymoron?

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:19:00 GMT

The Charter and military justice? Hmmmm. Oil and water?

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John Haigh, Vampire

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:40:00 GMT

Criminal law deals with one crazy criminal.

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Bobby Ryan: The Anaheim Duck's Flight From Hell

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:19:00 GMT

Bobby Ryan is a star hockey player in the National Hockey League. But he's also a victim of one of family law's most egregious crimes.

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Albert Einstein: Family Law Relativity

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:32:00 GMT

The world’s greatest mind neglected the plain evidence that the law, too, was relative.

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www.internet.com: How to Use the Internet to Market Your Law Firm

lduhaime@gmail.com — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:02:00 GMT

Dinosaurs of law practice unite! Your day of judgment is coming! Vive l'internet libre!

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Fritz Haber: War Criminal

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Because the concept of private liability for war crimes was only developing, Fritz Haber was never prosecuted for war crimes.

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Hockey Murder

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:46:00 GMT

Professional hockey is not immune from the occasional dagger of violent crime.

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Conduct Unbecoming: The Lawyer's Sword of Damocles

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:26:00 GMT

Conduct unbecoming is a catch-all prohibition in the professional conduct handbooks of almost all law societies and bar associations. Because it eludes clear definition, it ever hovers over lawyers - even when they are not at the office - like a sword of Damocles.

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Deadly Anachronism: Back To The Afghan Future?

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:08:00 GMT

Bad law can be quaint and amusing except when the strong, rank odor is new and deadly to women.

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Rules To Practice By, Bottled in 1890

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:41:00 GMT

Judge Yerger's advice to young lawyers has fermented well.

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Voodoo Sarkozy

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:33:00 GMT

What's the point of having a President if you can't "poke" fun at him?

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Late Justice For A Woman's Apocalypse

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:18:00 GMT

Three heroines of justice, a victim, her lawyer and the judge, bravely refocus the law against historic sexual assault claims in Canada.

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Law Professor Killed By His Own Justice

lduhaime@gmail.com — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:49:00 GMT

Only with nausea can one fathom that Nizar Rayan was a professor of law.

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The Drama Of Life, aka Your Local Courthouse

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:45:00 GMT

For the voyeurs of everyday life, there is only the courthouse.

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Upstart Law School Challenges Old Boys Club

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:06:00 GMT

The Internet-based Legal International Evaluation Society, launched its long-awaited online law school on November 27th amidst little fanfare but significant promise.

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Legal Advice to Mark Cuban: Ferme Ta Geule.

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:00 GMT

Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, like any client that talks to the press, helps himself hurt himself.

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Sisters In Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:50:00 GMT

Not so long ago, those with legal power (men) thought that giving women license to practice law would harm the 'natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex'.

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Blogging To Death In The Name of Almighty God

lduhaime@gmail.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:54:00 GMT

In some Muslim countries, law blogging is a hazardous occupation.

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It’s War: British Columbia Lawyers Take on the Judges and the AG

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:40:00 GMT

The PR tanks are rolling out in British Columbia as lawyers take up arms against a fundamental rule change proposal suggested not just by an elected Attorney General but in the back drop, in black gown and red sash, the sheepish grins of superior court judges.

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The Art Of Trial: Private and Confidential!

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:34:00 GMT

Trial, for the layperson (read "non-lawyer") is a source of tremendous stress and nervousness. You rarely see standing-room only line-ups at the public galleries of the Courthouse. But for lawyers, they are masochistic labours of love; a chunk of time where the stress is through the roof but so, too, is the intensity.

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China Politburo - Take A $%##@!@@ Hike

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:55:00 GMT

A lone student stands-down a row of four communist tanks and still, 19 years later, lawyers and international law experts with far less courage, ... tremble and wait.

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Banning the Use of Hand-Held Cell Phones While Driving

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:08:00 GMT

What is with banning hand-held cell phone use while driving that's so difficult for law-makers? Maybe this will help: The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor has no clothes!

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Birthday Legal Information Ramblings

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:34:00 GMT

It only takes two psychiatrists to lock someone away. Birthday or not, here's enough to find ten.

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Politically-Correct Is Dead! Long Live The Truth!

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:46:00 GMT

We speaketh prematurely but the lovely knoll of ditching political correctness- sweeter sounding still as it rings from the home of the common law - has been heard and struck a beacon of light upon the shadow of law which naively wants to be all things to all cultures.

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Police: Would That Be Cowardice or Stupidity?

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:52:00 GMT

British Columbia experiences two shining examples of police inaction - either cowardice or stupidity - in less than nine months.

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Pro Bono Hypocrisy

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:14:00 GMT

Envelope please! (Drum roll.) The award for pro bono works goes to ... John Doe, Esquire and Q.C. ..... because he has the highest rates to his paying clients and he can afford to charade as a poverty avenger!

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End of the World Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:42:00 GMT

As we all march to our lemming-like demise upon the cliff of environmental disaster, a path of law back to safety may yet be found.

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Polygamy Now Safely Brewed In British Columbia?

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:07:00 GMT

The Provincial government's top law enforcement officer toys with not prosecuting polygamists and bigamists, anticipating a Charter ass-kicking in Court. If so, law is orphaned and we all suffer.

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European Road Kill

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:47:00 GMT

With sympathies to recovering European traffic victims and their families, and for the hospital food, the solution to your woes is simple. Three words; traffic law enforcement.

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The Return of the Bourgeois

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:36:00 GMT

Much maligned since 1789, the bourgeois of France are back.

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Old Bailey

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:10:00 GMT

Gentlemen, dust off your armour and man your wigs.

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Smut, Bellfield and Shannon

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:34:00 GMT

Smut, crime and catch and release in the homeland of common law.

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Law and Order in Mexico - A Blast From the Past

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:32:00 GMT

Venture off your all-inclusive resort in Mexico and you'd better saddle 'up, partner (and bring a doggy bag and call your insurance broker .... )!

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Puerto Vallarta Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:14:00 GMT

A bored Canadian lawyer realizes how fascinating Mexico is ... and will be ....!

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Sexomniacs Unite!

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:02:00 GMT

The rise of sexsomnia as a defence to horrendous criminal acts continues unabated. Knocked down here and there, many are getting through including that of Jan Luedecke.More...

The Daily Newspaper: Always A Law Journal

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:29:05 GMT

The news is full of daily glimpses of the evolution of the law. You just need to open your eyes to it.

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