What would Atticus Finch do? Atticus Finch, the lead lawyer in Harper Lee’s much celebrated American novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, represents the best traits in a defence lawyer and in a person, He is an independent thinker who doesn’t rush to judgment, one who is compassionate, thoughtful and on the side of the underdog. …
Ok, here’s a test … and no cheating by going to Google. Name the three most remembered events in the last 60 years, the “where were you when” moments in life. I’d guess that the JFK assassination in 1963, the moon landing in 1969 and 9/11 in 2001 are North America’s Big 3. For those …
How’s that for a title? When I was much younger, I read Robert Pirsig’s classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I probably understood about 25% of it back then. If I were to try again today, that percentage would drop even further, unless there was a Netflix version, which is pretty much all …
There has not been a great deal of good news arising from the Covid crisis in 2020, but one positive are the improvements happening in workplaces. Changes that were on the horizon, but incredibly slow moving have been forced upon us at breakneck speed out of necessity. The increased use of video and audio …
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent person suffer.” Known as Blackstone’s Ratio, expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in the 1760’s, this idea of protecting and safeguarding an innocent person, even at the expense of many guilty people going free, is a concept rooted deep within our …
Remembrance Day dates back over 100 years to the armistice ending WWI in 1918. On November 11th at 11 am each year, we pause in a moment of silence to honour and remember the men and women who have served our country in times of war, conflict and peace. The world’s great writers have long …
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”George Santayana, Spanish American philosopher My lovely wife and I had the great pleasure of attending Theatre Collingwood’s production of Beside Myself in late August. “What’s it about?” she asked a few days before the show. “Not exactly sure, but I think it’s a musical …
Remember about 365 Blursdays ago? Or, 12 Blursembers and Blursuarys, if you are keeping track by months instead. It certainly has been a blur of stay-at-home orders, lockdowns, easing of restrictions, tightening of restrictions, easing of stay at home orders, tightening of lockdowns, ever changing restrictions on the restrictions … Huh? Never mind, just lather, …
For those of you who have been charged by the police in the past and have gone through our court system, the impact on your life likely has had long lasting consequences that have extended well beyond the time the Judge declared “guilty” or “not guilty”. The charges came during a low point in your …
Judges in our criminal courts often tell drunken drivers they’ve just convicted, “Ma’am, please remember, it’s not a crime to drink, but it is one to drink and then get behind the wheel of a vehicle”. With the not unsurprising rise of domestic assault related charges in this maddening COVID year of 2020, judges are …
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