George Lucas Doesn’t Like Legal Bloggers…
Ewok! At times I feel like legal blogging is like Mark Hamill’s career. It will lead to Broadway and cartoon voiceovers rather than Bay Street or serious advocacy. I look after my brother who is…
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As companies battle the recession, bartering comes in handy
First posted on Commercial Law International on Feb 24, 2010. By: Carsten Lexa Money helps a lot when it comes to exchanging goods. One buys the goods, pays with cash and takes the goods away. So…
A contract to end the homework
How one family won the battle to ban homework Shelli and Tom Milley were exhausted by the weepy weeknight struggles over math problems and writing assignments with their three school-aged children. They were fed up…
Privy Council In Bank Ruling Wraps Jamaican Judiciary On the Knuckles, Part III
First posted on Commercial Law International on May 19, 2009. Injunction, injunction, what´s your function? Sorry I just could not resist. Despite my lame attempts at a joke, it is a very valid question. What…
Privy Council In Bank Ruling Wraps Jamaican Judiciary On the Knuckles, Part II
By: Ainsley Brown The claims advanced by Olint, though ultimately would proven to be groundless is very important because it, gave us a brief glimpse into the subtleties of judicial politics. Before I go any…
Privy Council In Bank Ruling Wraps Jamaican Judiciary On the Knuckles, Part I
First posted on Commercial Law International on May 12, 2009. The House of Lords, with its Judicial Committee of the Privy Council hat on, as Jamaica’s court of final appeal, handed down a judgment that…
Tupac’s Mother Files Counter-Suit Over Late Son’s Film Rights
First posted on Commercial Law International on March 19, 2009. The mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, filed a $10 million suit against Morgan Creek, an independent production company over the rights to…
Lottery Winnings Denied for Being 7 Seconds Late
A lottery winner has been denied his fortune because his lottery ticket was processed a mere 7 seconds after the day’s deadline. Joel Ifergan of Montreal walked into a convenience store just a couple of…
Love, Actionable
Love and Marriage Contract law is no stranger to love, and vice-versa. We in the Western world, and most other places, have formalized romance for centuries in various different ways. What was once the union…
Follow-up: SCC tosses “dead fly” appeal
Yesterday I explained the background to the Mustapha v. Culligan of Canada cases. As expected, the Supreme Court issued its decision today. The full text of the lovely (read: short) decision can be be found…
“Dead fly in water bottle” case to be decided by Supreme Court tomorrow
One of the more interesting cases from first year Contracts/Torts class concerned a man, Mustapha, who sued Culligan Water after discovering a dead fly in one of its 5-gallon bottles. The facts of the case…
Legally Rude – Jerks of the Web
Although we’ve discussed briefly boundaries that bloggers often cross, in addition to libel and slander, lawyers are not immune from offensive behaviour either. ABC Nightline covered a story of a 24 year-old Boston lawyer who…