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 Profession and Lawyers
Conduct unbecoming is a catch-all prohibition in the professional conduct handbooks of almost all law societies and bar associations. Because it eludes clear definition, it ever hovers over lawyers - even when they are not at the office - like a sword of Damocles.
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Categories: Legal History
If tabloids existed during the reign of Elizabeth I, they would have been buzzing with the scandalous, if not bizarre personal life of that venerable bastion of the common law, Sir Edward Coke.
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Categories: Law Fun, Legal History
The judge who just disappeared.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
Lawyer: beware the heart attack.
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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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Lawyer jokes are no longer … umm, err, hmm … well, actually, all that funny anymore, ask any legal academic.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Current Events
Factitious disorder by proxy, she told the Court, made her poison her daughter for money. Not guilty by reason of insanity, she asked, though her daughter almost died.
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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: 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: Access to Justice and Legal Information, Law Fun
It only takes two psychiatrists to lock someone away. Birthday or not, here's enough to find ten.
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