legal system

legal system


Court asked to order Élections Québec to mail out English voting information

A lawyer for Élections Québec told a Montreal courtroom on Thursday that there might be time to send out one piece of English-language voter information by mail, as the elections agency and provincial government faced a court challenge over French-only mailouts. But Henrick Lavoie also told a Quebec Superior Court judge that it’s too late […]

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N.S. barristers’ society welcomes report on ‘prevalent’ racism in legal system

The governing council of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society has unanimously voted to accept the recommendations in a new report on how to better address systemic racism in the province’s legal community. Released Tuesday, the report by lawyer and former provincial ombudsman Douglas Ruck says there is “real, centuries-long, and still prevalent” anti-Black racism and […]

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