When the UN rights council this morning debates North Korea’s record, a human rights NGO will take the floor to present an open letter sent today by 20 North Korean defectors to Swiss president Didier Burkhalter calling to freeze the regime’s bank accounts held in the country. « The international community must show that it truly […]

The human rights of the world’s most vulnerable will be severely threatened unless urgent action is taken to improve access to justice and legal frameworks for people affected by climate change, concludes a new report by the International Bar Association (IBA) Task Force on Climate Change Justice and Human Rights. Published today, the ground-breaking 240-page […]

Professor William A. Schabas is director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he also holds the chair in human rights law. Professor Schabas holds BA. and MA degrees from the University of Toronto and LLB, LLM. and LLD degrees from the University of Montreal. William Schabas […]

After years of intense research and legal action, a bankruptcy lawsuit jointly litigated by a Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP team led by partner Steven M. Berman and attorneys from Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. goes to trial before United States Bankruptcy Court Judge Michael G. Williamson beginning on Monday, Sept. 22. Potentially at stake: hundreds […]

Fasken Martineau, a leading business law and litigation firm, is proud to announce that it is consolidating its partnership with Notman House by launching an exclusive onsite technology start-up consulting program. The firm will offer legal services to Notman House tenants. Once a month, Fasken Martineau will dispatch a team of leading legal experts from […]

The Honourable Benjamin J. Greenberg, former Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, has joined the firm Dunton Rainville, where he is pursuing his practice in arbitration and mediation, primarily as a commercial arbitrator. After leaving the Bench, The Honourable Benjamin J. Greenberg served as Chairman of Stikeman Elliott LLP’s National Arbitration Practice Group, before […]

By Grant A. Brown, D.Phil., LL.B For several decades now, fathers have faced significant, widespread bias in family courts across Canada. But as author Grant Brown shows in a new book, many of the popular prejudices behind this bias simply have no basis in law or fact. In Ideology And Dysfunction In Family Law – […]

The founding members of Michael, Evrensel & Pawar LLP (operating as MEP Business Counsel) are proud to announce the launch of a new British Columbia-based full-service corporate, commercial and media/entertainment law firm founded on global expertise, ingenuity and collegiality. Formed by a collaborative group of highly-skilled business lawyers from Heenan Blaikie’s former Vancouver office, with […]

Left to right: Iraqi Christians Ramzi Wahida & Maryam Wahida, UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer, Iraqi Christian representative, and Yazidi spokesman Breen Tahseen The following statement was issued today by Mr. Breen Tahseen, the son and spokesman of Prince Tahseen, leader of the Yazidi people, at the conclusion of Geneva diplomatic meetings: Today I […]

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) is delighted to announce that one of Canada’s leading jurists, the Honourable Louise Arbour, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada has joined the firm as Counsel. “In our long and successful history as Canada’s oldest and largest law firm, serving […]