People who disappear without a trace. It’s a staple of thrillers in fiction and on-screen. Now the Supreme Court of Canada is getting in on the, uh, fun. But the thrilling aspect for lawyers is how the high court might parse the difference between a presumption of life and a presumpti
(This post is an edited extract from a talk I gave on Nov. 1, 2017, to the legal ethics seminar of the bar admission course at the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. My thanks once again to the Honourable John Joy, lately of the Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, an
Law school exam question: In a news report on its website, the CBC names an Alberta girl who was murdered. Twelve days later, during the accused murderer’s first appearance in court, the judge bans publication of the girl’s name. From then on, the CBC does not name the girl in any of
