Breadcrumb Trail LinksLocal NewsIn 2022, police issued 1,968 short-term license suspensions to Saskatchewan drivers for exceeding provincial limits for alcohol and drugs.Saskatoon police Const. Foster shows two of the roadside devices used to detect alcohol and cannabis use in impaired drivers. Photo by Michelle Berg /Michelle BergArticle content
SGI and police services across Saskatchewan want to be perfectly clear: People don’t have be seriously inebriated to face serious consequences for driving under the influence of booze or drugs like cannabis or cocaine.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.…
Following weeks of legal debate about foreign sovereignty and the nuances of US law, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia joined the fray with a friend-of-the-court brief and a breakdown of Saudi law that promises to complicate the PGA Tour’s counterclaim against the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
The PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, have argued that they are nothing more than investors in LIV Golf, which filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Tour last year. Lawyers for the Tour claim the Fund and Al-Rumayyan are deeply involved in the day-to-day operations of LIV and, therefore, must submit to US…
With all of the recent bombshell Fox News revelations in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation litigation, there’s a subtle but important point that’s worth emphasizing: rebroadcasting.
That is, as alleged by Dominion, the network re-aired segments pushing false 2020 election claims while knowing those claims were false.
Media law expert Lee Levine told Nicolle on the show Wednesday:One of the most important things that stuck out to me about the new filing, which I had not realized before, was that some of these programs were rebroadcast in their entirety so that between the time of the original broadcast and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he would sign a Republican-sponsored resolution blocking new District of Columbia laws that overhaul how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he would sign a Republican-sponsored resolution blocking new District of Columbia laws that overhaul how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime.
City officials have spent nearly two decades trying to redo Washington’s criminal laws, including redefining crimes, changing criminal justice policies and reworking how sentences should be handed down after convictions. The overhaul passed the DC Council late last year.
But…
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7 CommentsLionel Chartrand discusses a case outside the Edmonton Law Courts in April 2022. Photo by Jonny Wakefield /PostmediaArticle content
An Edmonton defense lawyer recently appointed as a provincial court judge has decided to return to private practice, the provincial government says.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.THIS CONTENT…
An elderly Vancouver lawyer has been disbarred by the Law Society of BC and ordered to pay more than $10,000 for misconduct during more than a dozen real estate transactions that could have facilitated money laundering.
A hearing panel of the Law Society Tribunal found that Lubomir Ihor Huculak “failed to make reasonable inquiries of his clients in the face of overwhelming, objectively suspicious circumstances,” according to a news release issued by the law society Wednesday.
The statement notes that Huculak has appealed the decision, and his disbarment may be stayed as a result.
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It is no secret that the courts — and other bodies, such as provincial and federal human rights commissions, landlord and tenant boards, workers compensation boards, utility and review boards, etc. — are behind the times when it comes to technology.
For decades, these bodies repeatedly failed to adopt new technologies. Many courts still rely primarily on couriers and fax machines. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a suite of changes in the justice…
Benjamin Alarie, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, has long believed artificial intelligence will bring seismic change to the legal profession and, accordingly, society – resulting in what he’s dubbed ‘the legal singularity.’Abdi Aidid and Benjamin AlarieIn a forthcoming book, Alerie tackles the topic with Aidid’s servant, who recently joined the faculty as an assistant professor.
The pair argue that the proliferation of AI-enabled technology – and specifically the advent of legal prediction – will radically change the law profession and facilitate “a functional ‘completeness’ of law, where the law is at once extraordinarily…