By Jacques Frémont, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Ottawa Nearly 40 years ago, a young law student named Calin Rovinescu graduated from the University of Ottawa having earned his LL.B. Years earlier, as a boy, he had immigrated to Canada from Romania with his parents. They had always stressed to him that success in […]

Click here to read the full text Amnesty International, joined by the International Commission of Jurists, will intervene before the Supreme Court in a precedent-setting corporate accountability case on January 23, 2019. Vancouver-based mining company, Nevsun Resources, is being sued by Eritrean plaintiffs who allege that they suffered gross human rights abuses, including forced labour and […]

André Gauthier before his detention (left). Son Alexis Gauthier campaigns for his safe return home. “We are scared, exhausted, and heartbroken after years of struggling to free my father from the unfair persecution he has endured in the UAE”, wrote Alexis Gauthier in a heartfelt appeal to Oman’s Ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, […]

André Gauthier before and after his detention in Dubai A little over a month ago, in the middle of the night, Alexis Gauthier received a message from his father: “Tell your mother and your sister that I love them. Thank you very much for your help. This is where it ends for me. I do […]

Above: Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, political prisoner in Iran; Ensaf Haidar, wife of political prisoner Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia; Vicente de Lima II, brother of Senator Leila de Lima, political prisoner in the Philippines.   The wife and children of Saudi political prisoner Raif Badawi joined families of political prisoners from Iran and the […]

Sources who leak information to reporters always have an agenda — nobody knows this better than reporters Neil Macdonald · CBC News Glen McGregor and Joan Bryden were no doubt faintly amused this week to discover they were merely puppets, their typing fingers attached to strings being jerked by venal operatives within the Prime Minister’s […]

A former chief justice of the Municipal Court of Montreal who has served in the justice system for more than 20 years, Morton S. Minc is perhaps best known for his work supporting programs that help offenders dealing with mental health issues, homelessness and substance abuse problems. He was awarded the Prix de la justice […]

The family of prominent political prisoner Raif Badawi will put Saudi Arabia in the hot seat at a shadow human rights summit that will take place at the United Nations on Monday, March 25, 2019. Ensaf Haidar, the wife of liberal Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, and their three children Najwa, Terad, and Miriyam, will turn […]

Jack Greenstein, Q.C. Peacefully, on Sunday, March 17, 2019. Beloved husband of Edda Brodman for sixty years. Devoted father and father-in-law of Philip Greenstein, Ivan Greenstein and Maureen Leibovitch. Cherished grandpa of Evan and Michael Greenstein. Dear brother and brother-in-law of Stanley and Glenda Greenstein, the late June and the late Allan Silverstein; and brother-in-law […]

The Montreal Lawyer magazine founded in 2013, will feature business lawyer Calin Rovinescu, Air Canada CEO since 2009 in a front-page story devoted to his outstanding career. Please join the magazine by presenting a corporate ad as a tribute to this CEO who saved Air Canada from bankruptcy and with his team has steered the […]