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, Sexual Assault, Social Justice
Supreme Court of Canada plays chicken but stops prosecution of Nova Scotia woman who tried to hire hitman to take out an allegedly incredibly abusive husband.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
LawMag followed the legal world in this issue, October 26, 1996.
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Categories: Human Rights, Immigration Law
The horrific plight of thousands of fellow human beings - Eritrean refugees - on the Sinai desert - children and women among them - is apparently completely out of the reach of law.
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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, Current Events, Law Enforcement
As London rioters are arrested and appear before judges, it would be an awkward moment if they recognize each other.
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Categories: Law Fun, Law Makers, Politicians
Read about the phony social security number and the African family the world’s top lawyer is hiding. Honest. The Globe says so.
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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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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Legal History, Legal Profession and Lawyers
To kill a judge is the worst of crimes. And yet there is judicial blood within the pages of legal history, and some of it recently spilled.
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Categories: Access to Justice and Legal Information, Current Events, International Law, Legal Profession and Lawyers
Lawyer groups want to help but a jigsaw puzzle of lawyer money, agencies and a plethora of makeover plans may do more harm than good to Haiti’s dead justice system.
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Categories: Personal Injury and Tort Law
Events occurring while an individual is sleeping can exculpate the perpetrator from criminal liability.
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