Verdicts & Voices
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“It is so hard to get to Canada right now.”
“It is so hard to get to Canada right now.”
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Verdicts & Voices is a legal current affairs podcast presented by the Canadian Bar Association. With her retinue of expert guests, host Alison Crawford keeps listeners up to date on news, views, and stories about the law and the justice system in Canada.
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- “It is so hard to get to Canada right now.” · 27 min · Kausi 5 Jakso 7The shifting landscape of Canadian immigration law
- The rise of women-led law firms · 33 min · Kausi 5 Jakso 6What can all lawyers learn from the experiences of women who create their own spaces in the law?
- Was Nova Scotia’s last hanging a wrongful conviction? · 20 min · Kausi 5 Jakso 5A Black Nova Scotian’s battle to clear his great-great-grandfather’s name
- The pith and substance of Alberta’s referendum questions · 26 min · Kausi 5 Jakso 4Legal scholars are finding the questions hard to parse. How will voters manage?
- Supreme Court fall preview · 22 min · Kausi 5 Jakso 3Highlights of the Supreme Court’s fall docket with Nadia Effendi, court-watcher extraordinaire
- A remedy for people who can afford it? · 20 min · Kausi 5 Jakso 2Three family lawyers discuss how the new tort of intimate-partner violence is working in practice.
- Kudos to the humans · 19 min · Kausi 5 Jakso 1University of Ottawa law professor Amy Salyzyn on the evolving use and misuse of AI in the courts
- Indigenous practice in Canadian courts (from the archives) · 26 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 17Two provincial chief justices on how they’re making their courts more inclusive of Indigenous law, culture and people
- Approaching the bar · 24 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 16How do today’s law students view justice, the rule of law, and the legal profession in Canada?
- “I thought she was nuts when she said I’d be a judge.” · 23 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 15Harvey Brownstone, Canada’s first openly gay judge, recounts his cinematic life.
- A turning point for a tort of family violence · 20 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 14Shelley Hounsell and Vanessa Lam break down why the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to create a new tort of family violence is so significant.
- Nunavut’s Gladue dilemma · 22 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 13Where systemic discrimination affects the whole community, how should it factor into criminal sentencing?
- “A landmark decision for the independence of the bar” · 15 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 12Connor Bildfell finds the silver lining in a court ruling that upholds controversial changes to the regulation of lawyers in BC.
- When courts get vexed · 23 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 11How should Canadian courts deal with vexatious or abusive litigation?
- The badge of good character · 23 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 9How do law societies enforce “good character” requirements for members of the bar?
- Will the Protecting Victims Act do just that? · 23 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 8A discussion about the pros and cons of Bill C-16, the Protecting Victims Act
- Quebec’s secularism law gets its day in court · 20 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 7A preview of upcoming Supreme Court hearings about Quebec’s secularism law and the notwithstanding clause
- A lightning rod and a symbol of courage (from the archives) · 17 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 6Corinne Sparks of Nova Scotia was Canada’s first black woman judge. She was also the object of a racial bias complaint that reached the Supreme Court and stunted her career.
- Jordan turns ten · 20 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 5A decade ago, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Jordan decision with the goal of speeding up Canadian court proceedings. Has it worked?
