Justice Minister Brad Green said yesterday the province believes it's up to the federal government to foot the bill for defending Mi'kmaq fishermen and warriors charged with violating the federal Fisheries Act and the Criminal Code of Canada. In the matter of the recent University of Toronto law school marks scandal, lawyer David Scott seeks to ''set the record straight'' on behalf of his client, Ron Daniels, the dean of law. He stated in The Globe last Wednesday that when they were before the dean, none of the student clients I represented suggested that some of the responsibility for lying about marks rested with the law firms who sought to hire them, or with the law school. Apparently, the university has decided, ex post facto, that our undergraduate law school experiences were as valuable as a J.D. from certain prestigious American schools, and stand alone among Canadian law schools, and have always done so. David Scott, in his May 15 Comment piece, assures us of the fairness of the process and outcome in the University of Toronto marks scandal.
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The rules surrounding domain names have always been somewhat difficult to pin down. Loewen Group Inc. says it may pay a portion of any legal costs incurred by bondholders who wind up taking a back seat to other creditors in the company's financial restructuring plans because their debt was improperly registered with a U.S. trustee. At last, at long last, the definitive frontal attack against Quebec separatism and its founding mythology is on. Yes, it's showdown time in la belle province, and the field of battle is a Montreal courtroom. Once upon a time, in order to be classified as someone's spouse, you actually had to tie the knot, take the plunge, get hitched.