Fake doctor goes to jail, good faith and expected profit, default judgment, and decriminalizing drugs
This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: What happens when someone, repeatedly, pretends to be a medical doctor, despite repeated injunctions and fines being imposed? They go to jail. The...
12 Feb 202122min
Gladue and bail, consent and medical malpractice, and banishment
This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: In 1999 the Supreme Court of Canada, in a case called Gladue, set out principles to be considered when indigenous people are involved in the crimi...
8 Feb 202121min
A Google Class Action Settlement and Murder vs Manslaughter
This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: Google has agreed to settle a Canadian Class Action based on an alleged breach of privacy arising from the collection and transmission of Android s...
24 Jan 202121min
Confusing COVID-19 orders cause family law issues, and a murder conviction vs private Law Society documents
This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: A BC Supreme Court Judge describes the BC COVID-19 public health orders as “fraught with inconsistency and ambiguity” and that it’s “not surprising...
8 Jan 202121min
Notice of records in sexual assault cases unconstitutional, forfeiture of money for bail breaches, and radar speed evidence
This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: The Supreme Court of Canada has granted the Crown leave to appeal a BC Supreme Court decision that found a new law that required people accused of ...
31 Dec 202023min
Public Health Act enforcement, duty of honest performance, and a solitary confinement class action
This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: Provisions of the British Columbia Public Health Act allow for the enforcement of public health orders by means other than the imposition of fines....
24 Dec 202022min
Collecting COVID fines while mailing out cheques, recounts in BC vs USA, pronouns in court and for judges
Rather than using collection agencies to collect COVID-19 related fines, the province of BC shouldn’t be sending $1,000 COVID-19 benefits to people who have outstanding fines for breaching orders of t...
17 Dec 202022min
Joe Arvay - Remembering his contributions from Little Sisters to Hells Angels
Renowned constitutional lawyer Joe Arvay passed away unexpectedly at the age of 71. Over the course of a remarkable career focused on public interest constitutional litigation he had a profound impact...
13 Dec 202023min
