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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 403

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: When the Lawyer Is Fake

People put an enormous amount of trust in their lawyer. They hand over their money, their secrets, and quite often the most frightening problem of their entire life. They assume that the person on the other side of the desk actually went to law school, actually passed the bar, and actually has a licence in good standing. Most of the time that assumption is correct. Every so often it is wrong.

This week I went looking for the people who pretended. I’m not so much interested in lawyers who made mistakes or lawyers who got suspended for the usual reasons. I mean people who were never entitled to practise at all, or who lost the right years ago and simply kept going. The stories come from three different places and they share one common thread. Somebody decided that a law degree, a bar exam, and a licence were optional, and a lot of trusting people paid the price. One of them even built a courtroom!

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 401

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: No Car Required

People tend to think impaired driving is something that only happens behind the wheel of a car. It is one of the most common misconceptions I run into. The Criminal Code does not use the word car. It uses the word conveyance, and it defines a conveyance as a motor vehicle, a vessel, an aircraft, or railway equipment. That is a very wide net. If it carries you from one place to another, the impaired driving laws are almost certainly paying attention.

I tell clients this all the time and they rarely believe me until they meet someone it happened to. So this week I went looking for the people it happened to. All three of the main stories come from Ontario, all three charges were laid by the OPP, and not one of them involves a car. What they share is a person who climbed onto something conveyance after a few too many and learned that the law does not care how many wheels you have. Or whether you have any wheels at all.

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Driving Law Episode 454: Supreme Court Takes Refusal Case, BC Dash Cam Law & School Bus Stunt Driving

In Episode 454 of Driving Law, Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko discuss the Supreme Court of Canada granting leave in Emeruwa, a major impaired driving refusal case, BC’s new commercial vehicle dash cam legislation, and an Ontario school bus driver allegedly caught stunt driving with children on board.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 400

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: The Best Way to Get Caught

Four hundred Wednesdays. That is what we are looking at this week. We are celebrating four hundred posts of lawyers behaving badly, defendants behaving worse, creative and stupid lawsuits, and police forces around the world coming up with new ways to embarrass themselves and others. It is fair to say that the supply of weird  and wacky legal news has not run dry, and there is no sign that it ever will.

For Volume 400 I wanted a theme that captures the spirit of this column. Our three stories this week meet the bill. Each one involves someone the police were trying to find. And each one is a study in how, no matter how creative the escape plan, the people doing the escaping tend to be their own biggest problem.

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