What’s surprising about the documents exposing tax shelters in Panama is that so many people seem surprised. Tax shelters as Satan’s bank account are a staple of popular culture – in novels by Scott Turow and John Grisham, for example, the films based on them, and Sarah Caudwell’s The

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

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