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Local NewsThe Battered Women’s Support Services says in 2021 they received 11,000 calls from women needing legal advocacy.Published April 05, 2023 • Last updated 1 week ago • 2 minute readA legal advocate helps a woman at the Battered Women’s Support Services. A new and expanded legal clinic for survivors of domestic violence is opening in Vancouver. Photo by BWSS handout /jpgArticle content
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While Donald Trump launches verbal attacks against the prosecutor and judge overseeing his criminal charges in connection with hush money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, an attorney for the former US president has said his main focus is on legal maneuvers aiming to get the case Refuse long before a trial jury is ever seated.
Jim Trusty appeared on Sunday on ABC’s This Week and argued that “there’s a lot to play with” when examining whether New York state prosecutors waited too long to secure an indictment against Trump and if the ex-president intended to commit any…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has determined that while the City of Cambridge breached its own procedural bylaw, it will also reject an application from a citizens’ committee to review the building of an Amazon Warehouse.
The citizens’ committee was Blair Engaged – who were seeking a judicial review of a decision made by the City of Cambridge to allow for a one million square foot warehouse/distribution center within the Blair Village Heritage Conservation District. Amazon has said the one-million-square-foot warehouse will create more than 1,000 jobs.
An Amazon warehouse under construction in the Village of Blair. (Colton Wiens/CTV…
NEW YORK, April 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Zynex, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZYXI) resulting from allegations that Zynex may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Zynex securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class…
Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, April 3, 2023 6:18PM EDT
Last Updated Monday, April 3, 2023 9:24PM EDT
TORONTO – Ontario has not yet put a four-year-old policing law overhaul into effect, which includes allowing officers to be suspended without paying more often, but the solicitor general said Monday he’s directing it to be done “as soon as possible.”
Michael Kerzner was asked Monday in question period about the law that has been sitting on the books since 2019 in light of news reports about an Ontario Provincial Police…
WASHINGTON – Hours after being arraigned in a New York courtroom, former President Donald Trump used a speech to supporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate to lash out at New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg and other prosecutors who are investigating him.
“I never thought anything like this could happen in America,” Trump told the crowd gathered in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump is facing 34 felony counts in the New York case, becoming the first-ever former president to face criminal charges.
Trump indictment updates::Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts in historic New York case
Trump’s 27-minute speech amounted to a…
Donald Trump’s defense lawyers blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case on Tuesday, saying it lacks the kind of convincing detail he’ll need for a slam-dunk prosecution against the first-ever former president to face criminal prosecution.
A number of legal experts and former prosecutors, however, said Bragg was smart to leave out critical details of his case in order to gain competitive advantage over Trump’s aggressive team of lawyers and political influencers.
more:Timeline: How Trump was indicted after probe into payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels
Covering up “crimes relating to the 2016 election”
The indictment handed up…
Unlawful Police Power, Going To Jail NSW And Over-Policing
“Over-policing” of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is an issue that was highlighted by the Redfern Legal Center head of police accountability and government law, Samantha Lee. Ms Lee cited tougher bail laws, more police powers and the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP), that’s unique to NSW, as reasons for the inequity.
Lawyer and advocate Samantha Lee identified that NSW police were unlawfully strip searching Australians. It was for this reason that the RLC began the ‘Safe & Sound’ campaign, in order to stop the high number of police strip…