Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
- Thousands of UK court cases could soon be heard via Skype
- Ontario’s e-cig law unconstitutional: prof
- Same-sex couple’s custody battle collides with ‘outdated’ Alberta law
- Lance Armstrong Loses $10 Million Arbitration Ruling
- 5 plaintiffs drop pimping accusations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Ontario Judge ripped for dating site research before rendering his decision in a trial for sexual assault
- Ottawa delaying studies to determine if e-cigarettes are a safe alternative for smokers, researchers say
- Quadriplegic Alberta temporary foreign worker facing deportation after accident leaves her unemployable
- Video: SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tips her hand: Same-sex marriage is coming, so get used to it
- Court awards 14 months’ notice to 3-year employee - Lexology
- Toronto lawyer facing now facing 501 charges in $15M condo fraud - Toronto Star
- Revenge porn, posting sexual images without consent, outlawed in Britain
- South Carolina inmates can be punished for decades for using Facebook
- Law Society of Upper Canada seeks to break down damaging racial barriers
- Harper says Ottawa will appeal ruling allowing veil during citizenship oath
- Federal judge orders contempt-of-court hearing for Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
- Sun News Network shuts down, putting 200 out of work after four-year run for ‘Fox News North’
- Ginsburg explains why she nodded off at State of the Union: ‘I wasn’t 100 percent sober’
- Peel Region cop convicted in car-insurance scam
- Conrad Black: Supreme Court on the loose | National Post
- Criminal lawyers question why colleague was arrested inside courthouse for allegedly bringing in drugs
- In Historic First, N.J. Judge Rules Labeling Homosexuality A Mental Disorder Is Fraud
- Judge rejects media request to interview Omar Khadr
- Peel police deny handcuffing lawyer in her robes
- Peter MacKay’s friends, colleagues make up 6 of 9 judge appointees
- SCC sides with Law Societies as part of terror and money-laundering law ruled unconstitutional
- Toronto lawyer arrested at Brampton court, allegedly smuggling drugs into courthouse
- Abbotsford lawyer in living will case argues force feeding of Alzheimer’s patient amounts to battery
- Alabama top court tosses probate judge’s petition seeking guidance on gay marriage
- Jails Have Become Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted, a Report Says
- The SCC class of 2015
- Costa Concordia captain convicted of manslaughter charges in 2012 shipwreck
- Target Canada employees granted representation by court
- Canadian Judicial Council under fire by federal judge
- Rob Ford ejected from Toronto council meeting
- Illinois man freed by DNA after 29 years’ imprisonment for murder
- Woman asks to be sworn in as Canadian citizen ASAP after overturn of policy requiring her to remove niqab
- Kansas Governor ends protections for LGBT state workers
- Hamilton police ordered to pay crime boss Andre Gravelle $10,000 in court costs
- Feds will not override the court’s ban on assisted suicide, MacKay hints
- Government unlikely to invoke notwithstanding clause over assisted suicide ruling: Peter MacKay
- Lexum on the Departure of Colin Lachance From CanLII
- Lawyer Botches $2 Filing Fee, $2.5 Million Lawsuit Tossed Over Missed Limitation Date
- Federal Judge Sets Hearing in Alabama over Resistant Probate Judges' and Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
- Ontario Superior Court Sets Aside Will for Public Policy Grounds: Spence v BMO Trust Company
- Ontario wrongful dismissal plaintiff awarded $13,000 judgment and $90,000 in costs
- Who You Gonna Call? Naming Your Law Firm
- New site launches as bencher election set to begin
- Heenan denies partners have gotten capital back - Law Times
- Family status rights protect maternity and parental leave, rules Ontario court
- Lawyers ask Harper government why they don’t keep diversity stats about judges
- CRA may have duty to warn taxpayers of tax schemes, Federal Court rules
- Vote to oppose ‘stand-your-ground’ laws passed unanimously by ABA House of Delegates
- Justice Thomas’s Dissent Hints of Supreme Court’s Intentions on Same-Sex Marriage
- Groia to continue court battle, hopes to make change as bencher
- Supreme Court Undercuts Alabama Chief Justice’s Argument to Delay Same-Sex Marriages
- Doctor-assisted suicide: The next steps for Canada's physicians - The Globe and Mail
- What is a SLAPP and does BC need a law? - Vancouver Sun
- Strauss-Kahn Expected to Defend Legality of Lust at Trial
- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk & Office Manager
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