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: Crime and Criminal Law, Family Law
The birthing pains of judicial recognition of domestic violence are not for the faint of heart.
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Categories: Legal History
Finding one of the greatest treasures known to law was part luck, part Indiana Jones.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law
Although she may have accidentally killed a man with her vehicle, she would be sentenced for murder because of what she did and did not do, after the accident.
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Categories: Current Events, Law Fun
One-legged cat, topless bar, porcupines .. Justice Martin Sheehan of Kentucky issues a judicial opinion that has it all.
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Rare instance of Irish domestic cannibalism causes corporate kerfuffle.
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Categories: International Law
Modern-day pirates are a deadly reality of all who roam the high seas. But the solution beckons if the will can be found.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law
Scott Panetti's cries of insanity found an ear in the USA Supreme Court, and using an old refrain in the legal songbook.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Current Events, Elder Law, Wills, Estates, Probate
The British Columbia Supreme Court did not blink when a controversial active euthanaisia case was brought into Court, in spite of wagon-loads of barbarous treatment of suicide in the pages of legal history.
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In Quebec, marriage may be in another language, but it is no distinct society.
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Categories: Law Makers, Politicians
The justice system does not fare well on occasion of cataclysmic disaster. When will we learn that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?
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