Trinidad’s former deputy chief state solicitor general, Neil Byam, collapsed and died on Friday while addressing the Court of Appeal.
“We can confirm that there was a medical incident involving an attorney in court today,” the Judiciary said.
Byam, said to be in his 60s, was before Court of Appeal judges Allan Mendonca, Prakash Moosai and Gillian Lucky, shortly before 11am (local time) when he collapsed and had to be assisted by Senior Counsel Douglas Mendes who helped lower him to the floor where attempts were made unsuccessfully to resuscitate him.
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A New York appellate court held in December that the Oneida County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) had no authority to condemn property for a hospital parking lot. The court explained in a rather cursory opinion that under the IDA’s enabling legislation, its “statutory purposes” —and thus its use of eminent domain—were restricted to the development of “commercial facilities.” The court noted that “healthcare-related facilities” weren’t included in any of the IDA’s statutory purposes and then concluded that the proposed condemnation would not be for a “commercial purpose” because the property wasn’t being…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice is set to determine if the historic trees at Osgoode Hall in Toronto will live beyond this week.
The court granted the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) an interim injunction on Sunday that prevented Metrolinx from chopping down the mature trees for Ontario Line subway station construction.
But on Friday, the interim injunction will expire at midnight, unless the order is extended.
A virtual hearing is taking place on Thursday afternoon in the hope of extending the current temporary pause on tree removal until the Toronto City Council can consider an Ontario Heritage Act…
CBC Quebec is highlighting people from the province’s Black communities who are giving back, inspiring others and helping to shape our future. These are the 2023 Black Changemakers.Idil Issa fights for the causes that she believes in and works to help others get their voices heard, too.
The McGill University law student has spent more than five years lobbying for human rights in Quebec, particularly voicing her opposition to restrictions on the wearing of religious symbols.
Issa, who grew up in Winnipeg and Toronto, first came to Montreal for university. After doing international communications work for a decade, she…
An attorney for Donald Trump said the latest classified folder turned over to investigators was just that ― a folder, and a folder alone ― which the former president used to block a light that was bothering him at night.
Timothy Parlatore downplayed the folder on CNN as “one of the more humorous aspects of this whole thing” and claimed it “means nothing” because it was empty.
He said the folder marked “Classified Evening Summary” was found in Trump’s bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
“He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has…
Four Troutman Pepper life sciences partners join Goodwin
Goodwin poached a 14-partner Troutman Pepper group last week(Reuters) – Law firm Goodwin Procter has hired four more life sciences attorneys from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, a week after a group hire from the firm helped Goodwin launch a Philadelphia office.
Goodwin said Wednesday that it added partners Allison Nicklin, Alicia Palladino, Justin Platt and Laura Umbrecht in New York and Philadelphia from Troutman Pepper. Last week 14 other partners joined Goodwin from the same firm.
The earlier hires included Rachael Bushey, who was chair of Troutman Pepper’s health sciences department,…
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Kyle Busch was detained at a Mexican airport late last month when a handgun and ammunition were discovered in his luggage, the NASCAR star acknowledged this week, apologizing for the incident and calling it “a mistake.”
Busch was sentenced this month to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a US$1,000 fine for having a gun and ammunition, a punishment handed down by a judge in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, home to beach destinations Cancun and Tulum .
The federal Attorney General’s Office said the judge decided to allow a conditional punishment and…
Shell’s board of directors are being personally sued over their alleged failure to properly manage risks associated with the climate crisis.
The lawsuit says the British oil giant’s 11 directors have breached their legal duties under the UK’s Companies Act by failing to bring their climate strategy in line with the Paris Agreement.
Environmental law charity ClientEarth, which filed the lawsuitsays it is the first case in the world that looks to hold corporate directors personally responsible for failing to prepare for the energy transition.
“Shell may be making record profits now due to the turmoil of the global energy…