Over 150 people attended the opening address by Ovide Mercredi while over 200 people attended the Saturday workshops. There was excellent representation of lawyers, law students, articling students, legal workers and others. Reviews of the workshops are being prepared for publication on this website and will be posted shortly. In the case of University of Toronto law students accused of submitting false grades to firms, some are laying blame by pointing to remarks made by Professor Denise Reaume. In the context of a tutorial-sized class, Professor Reaume is said to have expressed her concern that firms hiring first year students were compromising the design of the curriculum by requiring applicants to submit their December test scores, test scores which are meant only for pedagogic and not grading purposes.
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Recent developments suggest that we need to be more vigilant than ever in monitoring and opposing ignorant and hateful misconceptions about refugees and immigrants. Hours later, according to an article in the New York Times, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a senior Palestinian health official, Dr. Thabet Thabet, near his West Bank home. 60 Lowther Ave. Try our new Frequently Asked Questions page . The full text will be posted here shortly.