LEGAL TOPICS: Legal Wit

Legal Wit — Alice in Wonderland Interpretations

It appears to me a rather challenging proposition for the defendants to suggest that I should actually interpret the phrases displayed prominently on this document, i.

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Legal Wit — Protesting Too Much

The Defendants submit that in not permitting transcription of the Reasons for Decision for the summary judgment motion, Justice Wright committed a breach of natural justice because the parties have a fundamental right to have access to the Reasons for Decision.

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Legal Wit — The Judicial Chorus

If [the defendant] thinks he can wave away Meads v.

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Legal Wit — Designer Criminals

[A friend] and [the defendant] and a few of their friends were often to be found in some of Toronto's most posh neighbourhoods.

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Legal Wit — Who Landed the Whale?

The appellant submits that the respondent has been unjustly enriched.

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Legal Wit — Breaking Bad Parents

Breaking Bad, meet Breaking Bad Parents.

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Legal Wit — Parallel Universe

Why do written costs submissions frequently try to lead us into some sort of parallel universe where losers are actually winners? If you lost, don't re-write the facts to argue that you won.

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Legal Wit — Two Heads Better? Maybe Not

There's an old saying: "Two Heads Are Better Than One".

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Legal Wit — By Any Other Name

Shakespeare once said that a rose by any other name smells as sweet.

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Legal Wit — Know When to Hold 'Em

Here it cannot be said that [insurance adjuster] balked at his cross-examination or that the Plaintiff was in any manner frustrated in doing a meaningful cross-examination.

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Legal Wit — Any Motion You Walk Away From . . .

The plaintiff was successful on the motion.

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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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