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2017 Monday, April 3,

“The Best Criminal Lawyer in Toronto” …and other marketing falsehoods

By |2018-03-19T21:26:06-04:00April 3rd, 2017|

"The best criminal lawyer in Toronto" ...and other marketing falsehoods. "I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, and throw thunder in jail. You know [...]

2017 Tuesday, March 7,

“Lock Them Up! Lock Them Up!”: Is the Tertiary Ground for Detention Fundamentally Unjust?

By |2017-04-06T21:38:19-04:00March 7th, 2017|

“Lock Them Up! Lock Them Up!”:  Is the Tertiary Ground Under Canadian Law Fundamentally Unjust? It has been one-and-a-half years since the Supreme Court of Canada released R. v. St-Cloud, perhaps breathing renewed life [...]

2017 Friday, February 3,

We are all Groia: in defence of the defenders

By |2018-02-28T11:12:43-05:00February 3rd, 2017|

We are Groia. "What's an advocate?" In part, this is the question that the Supreme Court of Canada will have to answer after granting leave in the case of Groia vs. The Law Society of Upper Canada.  For [...]

2016 Tuesday, December 13,

Creating a modernized court system in Ontario (A holiday wish-list).

By |2018-03-19T21:25:52-04:00December 13th, 2016|

Creating a modernized, efficient, and effective court system in Ontario... (A holiday Wishlist). Yesterday, the President of the Ontario Bar Association, David Sterns, wrote through the Toronto Star that it's "Time to modernize our courts". [...]

2016 Sunday, December 11,

A lawyers’ guide to the right to silence and answering the “arrest call”

By |2024-08-09T20:40:01-04:00December 11th, 2016|

Your phone rings and your client is arrested. Now what? A lawyer's guide to the arrest call. Every lawyer knows of the right to silence.   In nearly all circumstances, we know enough [...]

2016 Saturday, September 24,

10 things to know before committing to a life of crime…

By |2017-04-06T12:13:27-04:00September 24th, 2016|

Thinking of becoming a criminal defence lawyer? 10 things to know: When we think of the question "What makes a criminal defence lawyer really good?" thoughts of dramatic movie cross-examinations come to mind. Or perhaps the [...]