December 2023

Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 274 Lawyers Edition

Lawyers get themselves into all sorts of trouble. Lawyers are people, going about their days, who are certainly not perfect. And lawyers lead interesting and complex lives because of their particular position in society, bringing them into contact with different people all of the time. And of course, there are conflicts. Most lawyers decided on that career path to do good things for society. The field also attracts narcissists – this is well studied, who may wish to prey on others.

It’s an unusual life, being a lawyer. Bearing all of this in mind, it simply makes sense that there are so many TV shows about lawyers. But truth is stranger than fiction and life is often weirder than art. This week we have three weird and wacky stories about lawyers in the news.

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Kyla on on RadioNLNews Mornings with Jeff & Bill: Too early to say whether criminality played role in fatal McGill Road collision, police say

“It can take several months even up to a year for police to determine whether there’s been criminal behaviour in an accident like this…”

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Kyla on on RadioNLNews Mornings with Jeff & Bill: Too early to say whether criminality played role in fatal McGill Road collision, police say Read More »

Language Rights: Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t!

Welcome to Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t! This week, lawyer Kyla Lee discusses language rights… Acumen Law Corporation lawyer Kyla Lee gives her take on a made-in-Canada court case each week and discusses why these cases should have been heard by Canada’s highest court: the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Commercial Driver Points for Intersection Camera Tickets

When the government introduced the intersection camera ticket program and expanded it to include speeding tickets as well as red light tickets, they suggested that this was a fair because as a compromise the tickets would attract no penalty points. The tickets would not go on the driving record of the owner or driver, and it would just be the fine. This was their trade-off for governing people by robots.

But this is not the case for tickets where the vehicle has an associated NSC registration. Allow me to explain.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: food bank, immigration and housing, and journalism

Our panelists Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, discuss food insecurity, Canada’s immigration and its impact on housing, and a debate on whether journalism is dead.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: food bank, immigration and housing, and journalism Read More »

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