Law Foundation of Ontario Scholar and Visiting Professor Sukanya Pillay argues that the Magnitsky Act has limits, and it’s time for Canada to amend the State Immunity Act allow civil suits for torture.
Read the full opinion editorial on the Ottawa Citzen website.
— Published on Nov 27th, 2017
(Left: Brittany Rizzo, Paris Wildman Sisk, Justice Lois Roberts, Justice Renee Pomerance, Justice Lloyd Dean Alona Semichenko and Ivan Lazarov)
Windsor Law students competed in the 44th Annual Zuber Moot this week.
The Zuber Moot provides Windsor Law students with an opportunity to moot competitively and to practice their oral advocacy skills.
— Published on Nov 17th, 2017
Windsor Law Professor, Anneke Smit, will be honoured during the Alumni Association Annual General Meeting for her efforts to guide and mentor students.
— Published on Nov 16th, 2017
Professor Julie Macfarlane discusses self-represented litigants with CTV's Your Morning.
— Published on Nov 30th, 2017
Bill Bogart was interviewed on Monday on CTV's Your Morning about the different models for retail sales of cannabis that the provinces may use.
— Published on Nov 15th, 2017
Many Canadians have criticized Canada’s $31.1M settlement with Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin. Professor Sukanya Pillay explains why a settlement is justified.
Read the full article on the Ottawa Citizen website.
— Published on Nov 7th, 2017
A group of Windsor Law Professors have written submissions about five critical areas of human rights and civil liberties concerns, for the forthcoming 2018 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Canada. The UPR process, which began after 2007, is a process of the UN Human Rights Council that uniquely allows all 193 UN Member States to engage in a ‘peer-review process’: States raise concerns and identify challenges regarding human rights practice and protections in each country. The country under review has an opportunity to hear all the concerns raised, and respond regard
— Published on Nov 3rd, 2017
Windsor Law Professor, Richard Moon, is quoted in the Globe and Mail on a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision rejecting a religious freedom claim by an Indigenous community in B.C.
— Published on Nov 3rd, 2017
Community Legal Aid steps in to help Belle River seniors who fell victim to a nation-wide fraud scheme with a Toronto based moving company.
Read the full article on the CBC website.
— Published on Nov 2nd, 2017
Windsor Law Professor and Director of the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, Julie Macfarlane, describes how self-represented defendants in criminal trials are just the tip of the iceberg in the access to justice (A2J) crisis.
— Published on Nov 2nd, 2017
