Entries for 2011
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: Law Fun, Litigation
Mr. and Mrs. Beesley hid their house inside a barn. For legal reasons.
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Lawyer jokes, the Christmas edition. Joyeux noël avocats, juges, notaires et technicien juridique.
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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: 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
An act of God shakes Christchurch and her justice system all to Hell and back.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
When someone compromises the rule of law, we all need to stand, take notice and object.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
Marking 25 years of call to the Bar, it is not the prime ministers who are remembered but Madame, Votre Seigneurie, Christine Tourigny.
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Categories: Church Law, Crime and Criminal Law
The law, order and justice issues raised by Satanic rituals, as stylized in Stieg Larsson's novel, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, are too real.
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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: Crime and Criminal Law
Current euthanasia debates bring to recall long, lost criminal law cases where, were it not for common sense and the basic intelligence of jurors, the novel defence of "he asked me to kill him" may yet have some legacy of success in Court.
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