Shroff says the creation of the program helps legitimize animal law, much like how environmental law has become a mainstream ...
Melanie Webb, a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto and chair of the CBA’s criminal justice section, says it’s well-established that cash bail is only supposed to be relied upon in exceptional ...
In October, the Senate voted to send Tona’s Law, Bill S-205, to committee for study. It’s the latest push by the upper ...
Lawyers write for a living. But too often, our letters look like weapons of war, not instruments of resolution. Across the country, our professional rules don’t treat tone as a nicety—they fold it ...
In a decision observers say paves the way for illegal detentions to be swiftly and robustly reviewed, the Supreme Court of Canada has found that prisoners can appear before a judge to challenge a ...
The Supreme Court has described the rule of law as a “fundamental tenet” of Canada’s constitutional structure. Wagner said it ...
The CBA is calling for changes to Canada’s immigration system as it’s ill-equipped to respond to the emerging crisis south of ...
UN Special Rapporteur Margaret Satterthwaite on the autocrats around the world who are unleashing assaults on their legal ...