Legal Wit Archives : 2015

Legal Wit — Life Can be Hard, and the Law is No Help

It is trite to say that that making a living is a stressful activity and that much of life can be nasty and brutish.

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Legal Wit — Too Many Hats

In self-represented litigation, the "pleadings" rarely reflect meaningful details of the issues to be tried.

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Legal Wit — It's Never Good When Judges Invoke Kafka

To understand these appeals one must first gain an understanding of how the process of credentialing and privileging physicians within [the health authority] actually works, an understanding that likely is beyond the general knowledge of most people in [the province].

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Legal Wit — Lessons From Judge School

In new judge's school they tell you that there are a couple of rules you should follow.

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Legal Wit — Self-Driving Cars?

I have no doubt the Accused was operating the motor vehicle on the date and time in question.

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Legal Wit — The Truth of Its Contents?

To put the [the defendants'] argument in perspective, imagine J.

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Legal Wit — No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

 "No good deed should go unpunished.

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Legal Wit — A Great Performance, Minus the Prince

The above is not a statement about what s 7 of the Charter means, nor how s 7 would apply.

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Legal Wit — Facing Down the Lions

The two large stone lions that stand separating the Granville Mall from Duke Street in Halifax were saved by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from the demolition of Halifax's Old Customs House in 1958.

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Legal Wit — When *I* Do It, It's Different

Throughout these Reasons, I will be referring to this vehicle as, "the Ford Ranger," "the Ranger," "the pickup truck," "the Ranger pickup truck" or simply "the vehicle.

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