Duhaime's LawMag
The world's first online legal magazine, demystified significant law and justice events around the world, published from 1996 to 2014.
Categories: Commercial Law
David dings Goliath as Canadian banks are ordered to repay credit card currency conversion fees to consumers.
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Categories: Human Rights, Immigration Law
The horrific plight of thousands of fellow human beings - Eritrean refugees - on the Sinai desert - children and women among them - is apparently completely out of the reach of law.
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Categories: Human Rights, International Law
Better late than never: Egypt bans female circumcision.
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Categories: Current Events, Law Makers, Politicians
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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Categories: Elder Law, Wills, Estates, Probate
Capacity, once such an easy, simple concept, has exploded into an octopus of shouldnts, wouldnts, couldnts as an aging population will not be muzzled and demands to have their voice heard until the last drop of sanity.
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Categories: Current Events, Human Rights, Law Makers, Politicians
Lip service to French ... in Canada of all places.
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Categories: Current Events, Litigation
First off the mark, as it often is, and in the name of acess to justice, Quebec introduces a novel approach to costs: eliminate them.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
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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Categories: Internet & Intellectual Property
Google Inc. seems to have adopted a suicidal litigation strategy of running from the law. It has infuriated and multiplied the posses in pursuit and exposes hypocrisy in "Don't Be Evil".
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Categories: Personal Injury and Tort Law, Sexual Assault, Social Justice
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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