THE HONOURABLE DIONYSIA ZERBISIAS It is with profound sadness that the family of the Honourable Madame Justice Dionysia « Denny » Zerbisias announces her passing on October 1 at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital. Predeceased by the love of her life Martin Bergman, Denny has left a hole in the hearts of so many. Born in 1939 to […]

The Château Ramezay – Historic Site and Museum of Montréal is on a recruitment drive! We are looking for volunteers interested in sharing a love of history with students and visitors to our beautiful city. Anyone interested is invited to come to the Château on Monday, September 23, 2019 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.Our […]

Bentham IMF Capital Limited (Bentham) is pleased to announce that the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has agreed to hear an appeal in a matter that Bentham is funding. As a result, Canada’s highest court will hear arguments for the first time relating to the important role of modern litigation funding in providing access to […]

Trudeau’s government under fire for lack of progress in freeing innocent Canadian Andre Gauthier. Radha Stirling explains the case André Gauthier case delayed further, as Detained in Dubai investigates the Gold AE fraud in finer detail. Gold AE was the UAE’s largest gold and silver investing company, perhaps the largest in the Middle East, until […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced that four additional states have joined the multistate lawsuit to block the merger of telecommunications giants T-Mobile and Sprint. In an amended complaint filed in New York federal court this morning, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Nevada were added to the suit, bringing the total number of states […]

  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 […]