Entries for 2008
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: 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: Current Events, Personal Injury and Tort Law
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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Categories: International Law, Personal Injury and Tort Law
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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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
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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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: Church Law, Human Rights, Internet & Intellectual Property, International Law
In some Muslim countries, law blogging is a hazardous occupation.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers, Litigation
For the voyeurs of everyday life, there is only the courthouse.
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Categories: International Law, Legal History
Much maligned since 1789, the bourgeois of France are back.
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Categories: Current Events
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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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
The PR tanks are rolling out in British Columbia as lawyers take up arms against a fundamental rule change proposal.
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