Faculty in the News Archive 2012

• Professor Beverley Baines comments on the Supreme Court's ruling on the circumstances for which trial judges can permit a witness to wear the niqab (December 20, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala provides tips for how divorced and separated families can handle the holidays (December 20, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken comments on the immigration minister naming 27 'safe' countries for refugee dealings (December 18, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken comments on wealthy Mexicans coming to Canada because of the drug wars (December 11, 2012)
• Professor Allan Manson comments on the history of Kingston Penitentiary (December 06, 2012)
• Dean Bill Flanagan comments on law school deans being troubled about the shortage of articling positions (November 19, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on how there is no sign Canada Post will soon payout female employees after Supreme Court of Canada's ruling (November 14, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on parents often fighting for their child’s love during custody battles (October 30, 2012)
• Professor Emeritus Stanley Sadinsky comments on why casinos do not bring more crime into the areas around them (October 24, 2012)
• Professor Bita Amani comments on legal and privacy issues related to the Momoto camera that automatically takes photos every 30 seconds (October 24, 2012)
  
• Professor Art Cockfield comments on Supreme Court backing Glaxo in transfer-pricing dispute (October 18, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on Supreme Court setback for women (October 04, 2012)
• Professor Kevin Banks comments on politicians attempting to cap public sector salaries (October 04, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on Prime Minister Stephen Harper selecting Richard Wagner for Supreme Court (October 02, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr having trouble adjusting in Canada (October 01, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on Omar Khadr being a victim (October 01, 2012)
• Professor Sharry Aiken comments on Ottawa’s changes to refugee health coverage (September 30, 2012)
• Professor Art Cockfield comments on The Supreme Court granting anonymity to a teenage girl so she can pursue a lawsuit over a bogus Facebook page(September 28, 2012)
• Professor Erik Knutsen comments on websites now being used to solve civil disputes(September 26, 2012)
• Professor Leslie Green comments on whether the British legal system should recognize same-sex marriage as valid(September 06, 2012)
  
• Professor Art Cockfield comments on the IRS targeting Americans living in Canada (August 31, 2012)
• Dean Bill Flanagan and Ian Peach, Law ’89, LLM ’09, comment on how to get a job in a university law department (August 28, 2012)
• Professor Allan Manson comments on double bunking in Canadian prisons which has become very common (August 22, 2012)
• Professor Erik Knutsen comments on man who was found not criminally responsible for wife’s murder, fighting to get insurance payout (August 16, 2012)
• Report by Professor Emeritus David Mullan addresses operational dynamics of Canada’s current prison grievance process(August 13, 2012)
• Professor Erik Knutsen comments on the issue of whether summary judgments are a waste of judicial resources (August 13, 2012)
• Professor Sharry Aiken comments on the 59 Cent Campaign pushing Tories to restore benefits to refugees (August 10, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken comments on changes to immigration law (June 11, 2012)
• Professor David Lyon comments on what might happen in the future is used to shape our lives in the present(June 11, 2012)
• Professor Bruce Pardy comments on why Toronto’s bag ban may not be legal(June 10, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on how women are on pace to earn economic equality in Canada in the year 2593 (May 23, 2012)
• Professor Darryl Robinson comments on two courts battling to prosecute the son of Moammar Gadhafi(May 23, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on why people representing themselves in family court is becoming a major problem (May 21, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on the Ontario government trying to reduce some doctor fees (May 10, 2012)
• Professor Hilary Young's op-ed on Hassan Rasouli being at the centre of a debate about withholding life-sustaining treatment is published in the Globe and Mail (May 02, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on how a much-discussed report on tax policy from the Fraser Institute is steering the debate over taxation in the wrong direction(April 27, 2012)
  
• Professor Erik Knutsen comments on a court allowing a mentally ill husband who killed his wife to collect her life insurance policy (April 26, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken's op-ed on Canada’s immigration reforms is published in Embassy Magazine (April 25, 2012)
• Professor Allan Manson comments on the federal government's decision to close Kingston Penitentiary (April 19, 2012)
• Professor Bruce Pardy continues to comment on proposed changes to the federal government’s environmental assessment procedure (April 18, 2012)
• Professor Arthur Cockfield comments on a B.C. tax protestor who is facing imprisonment (April 17, 2012)
• Professor David Lyon comments on the culture of surveillance (April 16, 2012)
• Professor Emeritus Stanley Sadinsky comments on whether casinos lead to increases in crime (April 13, 2012)
• Professor Emeritus Stanley Sadinsky comments on the future of horse racing in Ontario (April 09, 2012)
• Professor Bruce Pardy comments on changes to environmental assessments announced in the federal budget(April 04, 2012)
  
• Professor Nick Bala comments on a report revealing the earnings of more than 20,000 self-employed lawyers (March 30, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey continues to comment on how Miss Universe Canada’s decision to kick out a contestant because she was born a male is discriminatory (March 30, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken comments on the yacht accident off the coast of Nova Scotia that may have been involved in human smuggling (March 29, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on how the transgender contestant who was kicked out of the Miss Universe Canada pageant has a strong legal case for discrimination (March 28, 2012)
• Professor Darryl Robinson's op-ed about the backlash against the Stop Kony social media campaign is published in the Kingston Whig-Standard (March 27, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on why polygamy leaders in a B.C. community may once again face criminal charges (March 26, 2012)
• Professor Darryl Robinson comments on Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga being found guilty of war crimes in the International Criminal Court (March 14, 2012)
• Professor Emeritus Stanley Sadinsky comments on the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation's announcement on changes to the future of gambling in Ontario (March 13, 2012)
  
• Professor Darryl Robinson continues to comment on the #StopKony social media campaign against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony (March 12, 2012)
  
• Professor Darryl Robinson comments on the viral online campaign calling for the capture of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony (March 09, 2012)
• CLCW Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shilton comments on the increase in pregnancy discrimination complaints in the workplace (March 8, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on how economic equality is an ongoing battle for women (March 8, 2012)
• Professor Emeritus Stanley Sadinsky comments on why online gambling is still thriving in Canada (March 6, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on why the federal government should get more involved in adoption services (March 6, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on the accused in a youth bullying case being found not guilty (March 5, 2012)
• Professor Emeritus Stanley Sadinsky comments on why Canadian lawmakers staying out of the online gambling game (March 05, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on women still getting dregs in the global economy (March 03, 2012)
• Professor David Lyon comments on how personal information on Facebook has the potential to be exploited by businesses and governments (February 24, 2012)
• Professor Don Stuart comments on the Supreme Court's decision to order a new trial in a sexual assault case involving a mentally disabled witness(Feburary 21, 2012) 
• Professor Hilary Young comments on the proposed Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (February 18, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken comments on the Conservative government announcing reforms to Canadian immigration system (February 17, 2012)
• Op-ed by Professor Nick Bala and Andrea Wheeler, Law '13, saying more clarity is needed regarding cases when a parent wants to relocate with a child following a separation, is published in Lawyers Weekly (February 13, 2012)
• Professor Lisa Dufraimont comments on the Supreme Court ruling over the admissibility of eyewitness testimony from a mentally-challenged witness (February 10, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on courts finding more cases of parental alienation (February 06, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on convicted killer Mohammad Shafia still controlling family and finances from jail (February 2, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken comments on why the three Shafia family members convicted of murder won’t be deported until they have served their jail sentence (February 2, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on how reports of child abuse by Shafia family weren’t properly followed up on by government agencies (February 1, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on children being used by warring parents in bitter family law cases (February 1, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on how the Shafia family murder conviction puts “honour killing” in the spotlight (January 31, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on how international communication of child-abuse history between governments is largely non-existent (January 28, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on parents being charged in Jamaica after son’s body found (January 23, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on why the Harper government shouldn’t amend the same-sex marriage laws (January 19, 2012)
• Professor Larissa Katz' op-ed on why ‘no strings attached’ property ownership for first nations hurts governance is published in the Globe and Mail (January 18, 2012)
• Professor Art Cockfield comments on major US websites such as Wikipedia shutting down for one day to protest anti-piracy legislation (January 16, 2012)
• Professor Nick Bala comments on the federal government trying to clear up confusion over same-sex marriages of gay tourists (January 16, 2012) 
• Professor Nick Bala comments on the federal government's position that the same-sex marriages of many foreigners who wed in Canada are not valid (January 13, 2012)
• Professor Kathy Lahey comments on the federal government's plans to change the law to legally recognize the marriages of same-sex couples who came to Canada to wed (January 13, 2012)
• Associate Dean Sharry Aiken comments on suspect war criminal Leon Mugesera being ordered deported to Rwanda (January 11, 2012)