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, Legal Profession and Lawyers
Lawyers are not supposed to die in the line of duty. When it happens, long live the death penalty.
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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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Categories: Social Justice
Lesbian's desperate claim for refugee status in Germany will soon resolve an extant and very inflammatory legal issue.
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The state and God have been chums for ages.
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Categories: Access to Justice and Legal Information
Private law reporters - West Law, Canada Law Book, Carswell - are on the precipice of corporate death. Good riddance!
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Categories: Current Events
Circa 2013, the captain of a ferry is convicted for criminal negligence causing death. Not in the third world. In Canada.
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Categories: Human Rights, International Law, Military Law
A day to celebrate or a dark day for the rule of law?
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Sexual Assault
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.
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Categories: Human Rights, Legal History
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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Amy Carrier, law student, and national beauty queen.
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