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, Current Events
Good morning, folks. In other news, today, on this sunny, pre-Christmassy day, in our glorious Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, authorities beheaded a witch.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Family Law
The birthing pains of judicial recognition of domestic violence are not for the faint of heart.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Military Law
There are tragic facts. And then there's the facts in R. v. Dudley. Murder and cannibalism in necessity were acquainted with the common law.
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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: Internet & Intellectual Property
Cyber crime races like a hare, ahead of the law, as you and me pay the price of a tortoise's pace of legistative and statutory adaptation.
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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: Family Law, Legal History, Social Justice
Back in time, a hearing on the charge of adultery invoked a potpourri of bizarre if not funny principles in the name of the law.
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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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Lawyer jokes are no longer … umm, err, hmm … well, actually, all that funny anymore, ask any legal academic.
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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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