by marcel | Nov 20, 2017
Are the thought police coming? Fast forward a bit. Government legislation says all our thoughts are to be monitored. To ensure compliance residents must wear a thought transponder (“TT”) on their heads. You zoom along the highway when suddenly you hear a siren and...
by marcel | Nov 2, 2017
The youth seem to have a language of their own, as I guess they always have had. It is not quite a whole language. It just involves a number of distinct phrases. The other night one of my daughter’s friends left a voice mail message: “Hi Natalie. Like...
by marcel | Oct 29, 2017
One of the best lessons lawyers can learn is, know your judge. I fondly recall a case I had where a client pled guilty to impaired driving. She operated a car after having consumed a glass of wine too many. Maybe two glasses. OK, so her blood alcohol level was about 3...
by marcel | Oct 23, 2017
A mouse recently moved into my house. I had not seen a real live mouse since my formative years in Montreal. In the 1950s, a mouse in a downtown Montreal tenement was about as commonplace as a smoked meat sandwich. You wouldn’t think of complaining to the...
by marcel | Oct 17, 2017
A seemingly not too notorious criminal case made its way into the news. Twenty four year old Lavinia Woodward, a student at Oxford University, stabbed her boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife. She was apparently angry at him for telling her mom she had been...
