The Al-Rawi Appeal & The Role of Circumstantial Evidence for Assessing Capacity to Consent in Se
NB: This post contains sexual violence Sexual assault is a topic that has been extremely prevalent in the media and has proven to be a...
Is the Media the New Crown Prosecutor? Celebrity, Sexual Assault and Scandal in Canada (a law studen
Louis CK, Kevin Spacey, Jian Ghomeshi, and now Jacob Hoggard. You don’t even need to know how to spell their names correctly and you will...
Cultural Unawareness of the Law – An Untenable and Inexcusable Defense
“Ignorance of the law by a person who commits an offence is not an excuse for committing that offence”,<1> is a statement that is cited...
Gender Inequality in Courtroom Rituals and Suggestions for Remedy
Many underlying factors of the law and legal system exist which are not initially apparent, with one such factor being courtroom rituals....
Lawyering After #MeToo: Science Fiction Otherworlds and Feminist Ethics for Legal Representation
In 2017, when the #MeToo movement was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Tarana Burke, credited by Time for creating the movement,...
