20 rights groups to bestow courage award upon Saudi blogger at Geneva Summit On eve of UN rights session, global coalition of dissidents will spotlight urgent human rights situations and call for action A coalition of 20 non-governmental human rights groups announced today that Saudi blogger and rights activist Raif Badawi — sentenced to 10 […]

Coco Chanel mentioned once that « hard times arose an instinctive desire for authenticity ». Following this wise thought, people are increasingly willing to make tangible investments like fine arts or jewelry. According to various sources, the number of the wealthy people is increasing – there are more than 12 mln millionaires and roughly 2,000 billionaires. These […]

A resolution on end-of-life decision-making to be considered by the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is poised to help lawyers, but a Supreme Court ruling addressing doctors’ roles in these choices should be kept in mind during the debate, says Toronto human rights and constitutional lawyer Hugh Scher. The CBA is set to consider the resolution, […]

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (“AXA Real Estate”), the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe(1), announces that it has exchanged contracts, on behalf of an international consortium of investors, to acquire 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2 (formerly known as The Pinnacle) from Pinnacle No 1 Limited to develop a new building partnering Lipton […]

Join The Montreal Lawyer’s first issue of its second year with an ad in the front-page story featuring Montreal Bar bâtonnier Greg Moore, a partner with the firm Joli-Coeur Lacasse of Montreal, the only anglophone in a French-speaking law practice founded in Quebec City. Greg Moore discusses the problems arising from errors in the translation […]

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An award-winning TV show focusing on the best and brightest leaders in the business world has turned its eye toward an innovative legal funding firm. A new episode of Corporate Review spotlights Joseph Genovesi, President of RD Legal Funding. The firm is dedicated to helping smaller law firms survive the ups and downs of contingency-based […]

Code-Named LEVITATION, Program Led by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment Collects Up to 15 Million Downloads Daily * Read the full article at The Intercept HERE * A detailed expose, published today by journalists Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept, reveals that the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s equivalent to the NSA, has been […]

The ADR Institute of Canada, Inc. (ADRIC) today released the new version of its industry-leading Arbitration Rules. Many modern commercial disputes are resolved not by courts but by private arbitration. Effective arbitrations are conducted under rules that establish clear, modern, and common-sense procedures. Since their launch in 2002, the ADRIC Arbitration Rules have become the […]

Your excellency, On 13 January 2015, the Jerusalem Post reported that attempts to discredit the Chair will be part of Israel’s campaign against the Commission of Inquiry on the Gaza Conflict. Two weeks later Israel made a formal complaint to the President of the Human Rights Council calling for my removal. On 2 February 2015, […]