Legal Wit Archives : 2015

Legal Wit — The Bricks of Evidence Stack Up

… a court can take into account erratic driving in conjunction with other pieces of evidence in determining whether there is evidence of some degree of impairment of the Accused's driving.

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Legal Wit — Get By With a Little Help

The law considers it generally fair that persons who commit a crime together shall be tried for it together.

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Legal Wit — Signatures

The back page includes a series of undertakings on behalf of the Corporate Defendants.

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Legal Wit — The Tax Man's Cut

Who makes more money in Brantford, Ontario? A Doctor? A Lawyer? Or a French fry vendor? That was just one of the questions during this nine day trial which [focused] on everyone — except the tax man — getting their fair share.

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Legal Wit — Taken For a Ride

The testimony of the plaintiff as to his satisfaction with the Lexus was quite different.

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Legal Wit — The Always Brisk Pace of Litigation

The reader will note from the suit number that this action was commenced eight years ago.

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Legal Wit — Non-Responsive *and* Verbose!

[The defendant], on the other hand, is a devious man and an unbelievable witness who will do or say anything to advance his position.

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Legal Wit — Pure and Simple?

The Supreme Court of Canada has instructed that, "[t]he primary interpretive principle is that when the language of the policy is unambiguous, the court should give effect to clear language, reading the contract as a whole.

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Legal Wit — A Hornet's Nest

This motion highlights the relative sanctity of a consent order.

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Legal Wit — Might as Well Tell the Truth

Overall, [the appealant]'s testimony — its unsupported nature, its inconsistencies — along with his frequent evasiveness, vagueness and deflections — leaves me entirely uninclined to accept any material portion of [the appealant]'s testimony that is not corroborated.

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Legal Wit — 90% Perspiration

No counsel should draft a pleading without reading the appropriate rules on pleadings each time before they draft the pleading.

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Legal Wit — Impenetrable Jargon

Of course [the defendant] was entitled to change its organization as it saw fit and to terminate the plaintiff or anyone else, subject to the law requiring proper notice.

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