courts

Courts don’t have a monopoly on justice

Opinion: Many forums of judgment exist in Canadian law and democracy—and we should be imaginative about crafting new ones

Ten years later, a disgraced refugee judge loses his law license

A decade after Stevan Ellis tried to solicit sex in exchange for allowing a woman to stay in Canada, the former judge’s legal saga is finally over

Everything you need to know about the Jian Ghomeshi trial

A cheat sheet for the most-anticipated Canadian trials of the year, with an insider look at what lawyers are saying and predicting for the case

Is it any wonder we don’t report?

A lot needs to change in the criminal justice system before more women come forward

Judging mental pain

More and more people are turning to the courts for payback for anguish

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Who’s suing whom this week

Our semi-regular round-up of the strange cases winding their way through Canadian courts

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The opposition bench: as we were saying…

So a Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that the federal government must hand over data from the long-gun registry to the Quebec government. The decision, which I will now read, is here, in French.

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‘Reminding the minister’

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin seconds the Canadian Bar Association’s February criticism of Jason Kenney.

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Former Concordia professor who killed 4 colleagues loses lawsuit

Valery Fabrikant pursued civil suit against colleagues for 19 years