Marie Henein is well known to Toronto lawyers for her surgical skill at cross-examination on criminal defence files. Now, R. v. Ghomeshi has made her notorious for that ability across the country, and maybe internationally. Lawyers find themselves putting up a bulldog defence for Hene
At heart, legal history is the biography of the Seven Deadly Sins. It’s all about blasphemy, thieving, adultery, coveting, murder – the assertion of the personal id over the communal superego. But generally you wouldn’t know this from the bloodless analytics of historians. It takes th
Conservative judges like to say that they’re not activists; they defer to the legislator. Their interest is legal, political, and social conservation: preserving the will of the people. Yet the career of Antonin Scalia, who died on February 13, demonstrates that the most conservative