Reading Time: 3 minutesExpertly recounting the experiences of becoming a parent and the trials and tribulations of migrant, Liew highlights the similarities of the experiences.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIndigenous student groups hosted programming which culminated with a ceremony at University Square on the morning of Sept. 30.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Walter Tarnopolsky, the HRREC’s first director, was Canada’s independent expert on the UN Human Rights Committee, and used his post at the University of Ottawa to “bring Canada’s Charter up to date.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesParpart’s lecture, presented by Centre for International Policy Study and the International Theory Network (ITN)’s speaker series, sought to bring nuance to the topics of silence, voice, and how women handle dangerous and gendered situations.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe panel, called “The Millennial Influence,” featured speakers in different practices on how increasing technology is both a benefit and a detriment to lawyers, the legal process, and access to justice.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe program will consist of two panels of legal experts responsible for allocating federal funding to support Canadians’ legal fees in pursuing what are called ‘test’ cases.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe elder, Claudette Commanda, is an Algonquin Anishinabe from the Kitigan Zibi First Nation and a U of O alumna. She is also the first person to hold the position as an elder in residence at the university.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA group of University of Ottawa law students are using photography to bring issues such as intersectional representation and the inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women to the forefront of the law.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf a motion with legal bearing can be shared in a BOA meeting, there is no legal reason it can’t be shared outside of it, since these kinds of gatherings are open to the public.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLarge-scale lobbying by private organizations, whether they are collecting profit or not, can have a harmful influence on democratic discourse, and eventually debilitating effects on governance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis fall the University of Ottawa will introduce its first animal rights course, “Animals and the Law” (CML 3145), under the civil law section.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf a judge allows police to search the phone of someone indirectly involved in a crime they may end up finding evidence of a completely different offence, even if that person was never arrested or even a suspect in that first crime.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is unreasonable to expect every moment of a traumatic event to be remembered in perfect detail, because that simply isn’t how the mind works. Especially if you consider that these assaults allegedly occurred up to 12 years ago, and these women probably tried their best to forget them at that time.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf Canada really is as free and accepting as our neighbouring countries believe it to be, there should be no secrecy in our health-care system its policies, or corrective actions taken when things don’t go as planned.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAl Jazeera English journalist released after nearly two years Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, right, listens to his lawyer Khaled Abou Bakr in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, June 1. Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Amr Nabil iPolitics (CUP)—Nearly two years after his arrest in Egypt on widely denounced terrorism charges, Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy walked out of prison …
Reading Time: 2 minutes“In this case, which I think is a bit poetic, the first scholar we host is actually a human rights lawyer,” said John Packer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUniversity of Ottawa law professor Nicole LaViolette, passed away May 22, according to the Faculty of Common Law.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe answer is to take a more rational and balanced approach. By tailoring the victims’ surcharge, the law can take victims into account while not penalizing criminals who have already been penalized by circumstance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an era when forensic evidence is proving that more and more prisoners on death row have been falsely convicted, any method of execution is inhumane.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week’s Movie You Should Have Seen: 12 Angry Men.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLaw of attraction expert Marlene Keys to give seminar in Ottawa “GOOD THINGS COME to those who wait.” How often is this phrase loosely thrown around? We all know that such an expression preaches the importance of patience. It’s similar to the idiom “all in good time.” But what if there was a way of …
