How a proposed law could cut off legal aid for low-income people

Oct 28, 2018 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Unless the federal government changes course, proposed legislation designed to amend Canadas criminal justice system will wreak havoc on law school clinics in Canada and will actually worsen the administration of justice...

Kill Bill C-69 -- it undermines efforts to tackle climate change

Oct 28, 2018 12:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

As an environmental law professor, my teaching and research focus is on Canadas climate and sustainability policies. So it may surprise you that I completely agree with the Kill Bill C-69 campaign of Suits and Boots,...

Florida's Amendment 4: Restoring voting rights to people with felonies might also reduce crime

Oct 28, 2018 11:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

On Nov. 6, voters in Florida will consider a ballot measure that would restore the right to vote to 1 million citizens who are currently not able to vote because they have felony convictions. My research finds that when...

Roundup weed killer lawsuit hits a snag, but Monsanto is not off the hook

Oct 28, 2018 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

On Aug. 10, 2018, a San Francisco jury handed down a US$289 million award to Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper who is dying of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Johnson sued Monsanto, the maker of the weed killer Roundup, claiming that...

Bank codes of conduct: add bars to the window dressing and make them legally binding

Oct 26, 2018 07:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Banks dont need 10 commandments to do the right thing, but just six, says the head of the banking royal commission. The first of those commandments set out by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne is to obey the law. The other...

Danske Bank: the story of Europe's biggest money laundering scandal

Oct 24, 2018 00:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

It is clear that Danske Bank has failed to live up to its responsibility in the case of possible money laundering in Estonia. So said Thomas Borgen, CEO of Denmarks biggest financial institution, when he resigned...

Why Canada must prosecute returning ISIS fighters

Oct 20, 2018 16:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Human rights champion Nadia Murad was recently co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In August 2014, Murads village in northern Iraq was attacked by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and she was sold into sexual...