Legal Humour Blawg

High profile criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan is about to start a complex trial defending former Livent chief Garth Drabinsky on fraud related charges. As well he is also representing former Mexican, now Canadian, prisoner Brenda Martin, in her endeavours to secure parole.  And not long ago he was in Chicago for several months fighting to prove the innocence of Conrad Black. The question is, does Eddie Greenspan ever handle low profile and more minor cases?  Well here is the latest.  Edward Greenspan’s next case is about a gentleman who got a $35.00 parking ticket after his meter ran out.  Mr...

Hi and welcome to this week's newsletter. If it's in the news and it's got a legal slant, we'll do a blawg on it.Have you noticed that hardly a day goes by without the media reporting on yet another one of criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan's high profile case?  Have you wondered whether Mr  Greenspan ever handles more minor cases than Conrad Black or Garth Drabinsky?  Then read  Marcel's Blawg, Where's Eddie, which follows Eddie Greenspan in a expired parking meter case.   And speaking of machines, are you all teched out?  Then check out, Technology 101- Back to the present.    This...

This guy had his truck repossessed by a large corporate bank. A corporate bank with over a trillion dollars in assets.Normally, the story would end there, but in this instance, the problem was that this guy was homeless and all of his worldly possessions were in the back of his truck. Before the truck was auctioned off, the repo company took all of his possessions and threw them into a open storage bin located outside their building. This guy went to a law firm looking to sue the Repo company for property damages of his possessions, which he valued at...

This was a good week for wrongly accused Robert Baltovich whom the Crown let go after the man spent eight years in prison, getting convicted without the help of Dr. Charles Smith. But is was a bad week for Brenda Martin. The Mexican justice system found her guilty of fraud related charges and gave her five years. Guinness clocked her trial at 3 minutes and 58 seconds. And who said there is no such thing as a four-minute trial? I think Martin probably had a legal aid lawyer and the lawyer’s money pipeline to the legal aid plan dried up....

Hi and welcome to this week's newsletter. If it's in the news and it's got a legal slant, we'll do a blawg on it.Marcel's blawg, Good Week, Bad Week, discusses a number of current legal events ranging from the guillotine to rectal exams.And have you wondered whether the Pillsbury Doughboy eventually got fed up getting tickled in every commercial?  Check out  Pillsbury Doughboy v. John and Jane Dough  to see what he has done about it. Finally, enjoy this week's feast of weird legal happenings from around the world. Odd or Amusing Legal Stories from the Past Week:Note - No implied...

For me this was the week that was. The case of my career knocked on my office the other day. A client bought two ferrets from a local pet shop for about $800. The weasel like creatures came with a 15 day guarantee. Needless to say, both ferrets died within a couple of days. Honourable client returned the dead ferrets to the pet shop and the manager, actually the "small pet specialty manager", collected the deceased ferrets and told my client he would be in touch. A few days later he sent my client a letter claiming that he had...

Have you noticed that people are taking less and less responsibility for their actions?  They screw up and instead of admitting same they find somebody or something else to blame their actions on, somebody other than themselves.  The following examples were in the news recently.Let's start with the public inquiry of pathologist Dr. Charles Smith, whose faulty post mortems  sent a number of accused innocent people to penitentiary for the alleged murder of children between 1991 and 2001.  Lawyers for Dr Smith did admit he had something to do with the wrongful convictions but went on to point their legal...

Hi and welcome to this week's newsletter. If it's in the news and it's got a legal slant, we'll do a blawg on it. Do you find that people just are not owning up to their actions? Please read Marcel's blawg, Responsibility R Us,  for his take on this issue. There is hope.  And do you get the feeling that the technological obsessive compulsive geeks out there are constantly trying to radically change how you run your law office? Then you'll enjoy reading The Paper Office, containing Marcel's arguments on why we should resist these fanatics and make our grandparents proud. Finally,...

Hi and welcome to this week's newsletter. If it's in the news and it's got a legal slant, we'll do a blawg on it. Former Vancouver Canuck,Todd Bertuzzi who is being sued by Steve Moore for $38 million for assaulting him and ending his hockey career, has decided to drag his former coach into the case via a Third Party claim, saying it was all the coach's fault. Marcel suggests that Bertuzzi is not going far enough and that he should also add to the claim a list of other obvious culprits, such as the arena organ player.   Please enjoy Bertuzzi Shoots...Everywhere. Also...

Todd Bertuzzi is certainly going down with his skates on. In March of 2004 the former Vancouver forward attacked, without provocation, Colorado Avalanche’s Steve Moore from behind, smashing his face to the ice and throwing in a few solid punches for good measure.Moore suffered some fractured vertebrae ending his hockey playing career. He is suing Bertuzzi for $38 million dollars. But Bertuzzi has now launched Third Party proceedings against his former coach, Marc Crawford, saying Crawford should pay any damages that the court may award against him as it was his coach’s fault for “failing to exercise control over and...