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City law firms are preparing to raise millions of pounds from external investors as the British legal market braces for its own version of Big Bang.

At least 20 firms are planning to raise outside funding under rules that will allow non-lawyers to own a stake in legal practices for the first time, accountants advising the firms told The Times.

PMO OLO harpoons Liberal Conservative divisions on seal hunt climate change

The Prime Minister’s Opposition Leader’s Office is accusing Michael Ignatieff Stephen Harper of playing politics with the seal hunt environment and the lives of those who depend on it after a Liberal Senator former Conservative minister reintroduced his bill to ban the hunt dismissed concern over global warming as alarmism.

In an internal memo to Conservative...

Recent Court of Appeal decisions have been inclined to defer to judicial officers who refuse an adjournment. 

This may be a sign of a new judicial approach – in the past adjournment requests were almost never refused and when they were the resulting decisions were subject to being overturned on appeal.  If an adjournment is requested, the party seeking an adjournment must set out specific reasons, and evidence if possible, as to why the adjournment is needed and how there will be relevant material to follow.

Today’s decision in Toronto-Dominion Bank v. Transfer Realty Inc., 2010 ONCA 166 is an example of the new approach:

 [2]              The appellants appeal on the grounds that th...

These are not government jobs with salaries, staffing costs or hefty pension obligations. Mostly part-time seats on obscure boards and tribunals rewarded with honorariums, these usually serve as low-level patronage plums for party faithful. The vast majority of the posts are now vacant, some having languished unfilled for years without anybody noticing enough to complain.

How the government will save big bucks by eliminating positions which do not have an actual paycheque up for fiscal sacrifice is a mystery Mr. Day did not satisfactorily explain.

James Morton
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[15]         The appellant argued that this court’s decision in Wellington was wrongly decided and should be overruled.  It submits that Wellington is incorrect because it provides that a condominium corporation can recover damages for breach of s. 52(5) of the Act without complying with the requirement in s. 52(5) of showing that the unit purchasers suffered losses in reliance on a material misstatement or omission of information in a disclosure statement required to be delivered by a declarant to unit owners.

[16]         I would reject this subm...

James Morton
1100-5255 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6P4

416 225 2777

Nigeria is a major nation; it's got a long history with Canada and it's a bit surprising the only consistent source for Nigerian news is Al Jazeera -- see story below:

http://tiny.cc/cVbsk

"Nigeria's acting president has ordered security forces to hunt down those behind an attack near the central city of Jos that left more than 300 people dead.
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Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from the capital Abuja, quoted police as saying that the attackers were Muslim Hausa-Fulani herders while the victims were mainly from the Borom community, a predominantly Christian ethnic group.

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Gregory Yenlong, the commissioner for information for Plateau State, said more than 300 people had died and our correspondent said most of the victims were women and children.

The office of Nigeria's