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Maintaining the Canadian legal system is obstructing justice for Indigenous peoples

This Opinion piece is by André Bear, a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan’s law school who is now pursuing his master’s of law. For more information about CBC’s Opinion sectionplease see the FAQs.The Canadian legal system seems eager to fill its prisons mostly with Indigenous peoples, as evidenced by our staggering overrepresentation. On the other end, there are countless legal professionals making a good living off our overrepresentation: lawyers, judges, prison officials and anyone else who profits. Although Indigenous peoples desperately need allies in the legal profession, at some point we should also recognize how the ongoing injustice…Continue Reading

Center sets up committee to prepare draft digital competition law

The Center has ordered setting up a committee that will review whether existing antitrust laws in the country are equipped to deal with the challenges that have emerged from the digital economy, and submit to the government a draft Digital Competition Act within three months.The move comes amid increased regulatory antitrust-related scrutiny over big tech companies like Google, which last year was fined by the Competition Commission of India in two separate instances for allegedly abusing its market dominance in the Android mobile device ecosystem, and the app store market . Apart from that, a Parliamentary panel has, in…Continue Reading

Activision fell on concern that the UK may oppose the Microsoft deal

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Rich Polk/Getty Images EntertainmentUpdate 7:50pm: Updates shares, adds Microsoft comment to NYT on UK antitrust review. Activision (NASDAQ:ATVI) fell almost 5% on a report that Microsoft’s legal team (NASDAQ:MSFT) is said to expect that the UK’s antitrust authority may oppose its $69 billion videogame megadeal, according to a New York Times reports on Saturday, which cited four people familiar with the matter. The NYT updated its story later on Monday to include that Microsoft (MSFT) said it believes it has a strong case in the UK and it has not “predetermined,” nor been advised by its lawyers that the…Continue Reading

Legal sizes for lobsters trapped off New England could change to protect the population

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Local The commission said it’s considering the changes because of a worrisome lack of baby lobsters growing off New England.Max Oliver moves a lobster to the banding table aboard his boat while fishing off Spruce Head, Maine, on Aug. 31, 2021. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, FileBy PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press February 6, 2023 | 3:01PMPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters that can be trapped off New England could soon become stricter, potentially bringing big changes to one of the most valuable seafood industries in the country. Fishers are required…Continue Reading

Man shot by Indianapolis police in grandmother’s driveway files legal demand

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The city of Indianapolis and its police department have been sent a legal demand for financial compensation by a man who says officers shot him multiple times at the same time they were asking him to put his hands up. Anthony Maclin was hit three times by gunfire from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers while he was in a rental car outside his grandmother’s house early in the morning of Dec. 31. He had a gun on his lap, but his attorneys say body camera footage from the shooting never shows Maclin with the gun in his hand. more:Indy police…Continue Reading

Pope, Anglican, Presbyterian leaders denounce anti-gay laws | World

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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis was backed by the ceremonial head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister in calling for gays to be welcomed by their churches as he again decreed laws that criminalize homosexuality as unjust.The three Christian leaders spoke on LGBTQ rights during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference Sunday while returning home from South Sudan, where they took part in a three-day ecumenical pilgrimage to try to nudge forward the young country’s peace process.They were asked about Francis’ recent comments to The Associated Press, in which he declared that laws…Continue Reading

Law Society Introduces “Strategic Priorities”

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The New Zealand Law Society has announced its moves to adapt to the rapidly changing legal marketplace by working on ‘strategic priorities’.A news release from the Society (published below) shows that the Society is developing a “fit-for-future” role as the profession’s regulator after a tumultuous time both within the profession and within the NZ Law Society itself, following the resignation of both the former recently appointed Chief Executive Joanna Simon and the resigning of the elected president Jacqui Lethbridge.Among the strategic changes being made by the Society include changes to the Conduct and Client Care Rules, which include…Continue Reading

Bipartisan Bill Introduced by Senate relating to Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020

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On August 2, 2022, Senators Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) introduced the Sanctioning Supporters of Slave Labor Act, legislation that would expand the categories of persons that could be sanctioned under the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (UHRPA). Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) filed a companion in the House of Representatives. Currently, UHRPA imposes sanctions on certain entities and individuals named by the President as allegedly having committed certain human rights violations in Xinjiang. The bill would expand the scope of this reporting requirement to include “every foreign person who knowingly provides significant goods, services, or…Continue Reading