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Current news, cases, and ideas affecting law and practice.

R. v. Chehil | 2013 CarswellNS 693 | Supreme Court of Canada

R. v. Rocha | 2012 CarswellAlta 232 | Groves J.

The fact that the concept of time has not been lassoed by science so that one can travel back in time, making it impossible to physically make 54 … payments from 2005 to 2009, does not strip the support from maintaining its periodic nature.

Highlights from this week's Houlden & Morawetz Insolvency Newsletter

Canada (Attorney General) v. Mowat | 2011 CarswellNat 4191 | LeBel and Cromwell JJ

"Are civil trials the legal equivalent of green eggs and ham?"

Highlights from this Month's Securities Law Newsletter.

"All I am saying is that, in constitutional terms, flowers are on their own."

Family Law Update — Relocating With a Special Needs Child

R. v. Alcantara (2012) | 2012 CarswellAlta 1524 | Greckol J.

"[T]urned up, to use Mr. Coles' terminology, "higher than a kite". Mr. Coles paid him $50 to go away."

Over the past few years, Freemen-on-the-land or “OPCA” (organized pseudolegal commercial argument) litigants have had an increasing presence in the courtroom, performing contemptible acts such as denying the authority of the court, disobeying court orders, disrupting court proceedings and in one instance, attempting to arrest the sitting judge. This post provides a concise explanation of what may merit a finding of contempt of court.