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: Legal History, Personal Injury and Tort Law, Social Justice
A criminal conviction, 2 years hard labour, a career in tatters, financial ruin and a premature death is the price Oscar Wilde paid .. just for a gay relationship.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Hockey Law
Ladislav Scurko kills: professional hockey is not immune from the occasional dagger of violent crime.
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Categories: Law Fun, Legal Profession and Lawyers
It took a notary to show lawyers to add some colour to their drab legal clothes.
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Categories: Law Makers, Politicians
American Republican candidate Rick Perry's jaw-dropping affliction of amnesia on national television had better end his presidential dreams. He joins a long list of wannabe law-makers undone by mental phenomena.
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Categories: Church Law, Current Events
A Jerusalem judge, armed only with his law books, is being called to judge a Biblical find and literally, play God.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law
The defendant's blood was not found at the murder scene. But it would come in handy at trial.
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Categories: Access to Justice and Legal Information, Legal Profession and Lawyers, Litigation
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And with Canada’s most comfortable summer in full swing, an old Saint ‘Nick in legal gowns will be showin’ up at the fifty-year old Victoria Court house round Canada Day with a brand new set of access-to-justice Supreme Court rules.
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Categories: Legal History, Legal Profession and Lawyers
In June of 2011, the Honorable Wesley E. Brown of the United States District Court at Kansas, with 60 years of tenure, and just after his 104th birthday, will become the oldest practicing Federal judge in the history of the United States.
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Categories: Current Events, Law Makers, Politicians
The San Fransisco's Golden Gate bridge has competition as a choice location for suicide: your local casino.
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Categories: Human Rights, Law Makers, Politicians
North Dakota enters God territory, throws gas on explosive abortion debate.
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