Text of speech here: The Carney doctrine open.substack.com/pub/paulwe…

Also there’s a decent chance the client that got wrecked will thank you for the rest of their life and the one you pulled off a miracle for will file a bar complaint.

Liberals have really screwed up collective bargaining in federal sector. “Intervention Expectation” is my newly coined phrase. Going in my textbooks. Now parties weigh every proposal against whether they’d likely do better if arbitration is imposed. This impedes bargaining.

On behalf of the CLA Women’s Committee, here is our answer to Ms. Mallick’s question published Friday in the Toronto Star: criminallawyers.ca/why-women…

Female criminal defence lawyers are not ‘human shields in skirts.’ We are skilled, principled advocates in a male-dominated field. Misogynistic takes like this push women out of the profession—and that’s exactly the problem.” #CriminalDefence #WomenInLaw

Before anyone criticizes the decision, they should be required to read the official junior hockey sexual assault trial verdict. ctvnews.ca/london/article/re…

This kind of nonsense that can only come from a small thinker. It is not writing with "courage and candour". It is an insult to the star lawyers (some of whom were addressed as "Ms.") that prevented a miscarriage of justice: Why do female lawyers represent men in sexual crimes?

The Star should be ashamed for even publishing this trash. I’m inclined to cancel my subscription all together. Why would female lawyers represent men in sexual crimes? thestar.com/opinion/star-col… via @torontostar

This viral photo of a ‘Liberal Boomer’ is missing context. He was being harassed by far-right activists A Liberal supporter is now facing doxxing and online harassment after an aggressive group of far-right activists crashed a Mark Carney event pressprogress.ca/this-viral-…

This position has been filled! Thanks very much to all who applied.

Re-upping this post! Come and article with @wilkinsonlegal!

RT @dmrider: Applause to whomever wrote this headline.

I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that.

A charge is not a conviction. This proposal would send innocent people to jail for years for crimes they did not commit.

The Business of Criminal Law 1. Moderator: Liam Thompson, Wilkinson Legal 2. Ayderus Alawi, Alawi Law (Toronto) 3. Sukhwant Baidwan, Baidwan & Baidwan Lawyers LLP (Brampton) 4. Nakita Kelsey, Mattis & Kelsey LLP (Brampton) #CLACPD

Come and check out what is sure to be a fantastic panel moderated by my lovely colleague Aditi!

Come out to the @ClaOntario's 10th annual Recent Call Conference! I'm moderating a panel on the business of criminal law--come out and hear from our panelists on this important topic!

Racism on twitter has always been bad. I must admit that in recent months the amount of vitriol directed at South Asians, especially those in Brampton has gotten worse. This virtual place is becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate. I have a theory though. 1/13

Hello junior counsel in Ontario/Canada. Let's talk about guilty pleas today. We all do them. Some more than others. I'll start with this. Don't be a dump truck. A dump truck is a lawyer who ONLY does guilty pleas, regardless of available defences or the facts involved. 1/14

The @ClaOntario acknowledges today’s funding announcement by @douglasdowney @ONAttorneyGen to hire additional judges and crown prosecutors to help address ongoing significant delays in the criminal justice system. While these resources are sorely needed and will assist, a fair, equitable and properly functioning criminal judicial system can not exist when only two of the three major participants are properly funded.  The number of self-represented individuals in Ontario’s courts has more than tripled in the last 5 years. Most fail to qualify for legal aid funding because of badly outdated financial eligibility guidelines that have remained unchanged for far too long. Also, while legal aid tariff enhancements have been made in recent years, when adjusted for cost of living and inflation, we are still far behind where we were 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Perhaps for this reason, nearly three times as many legal aid certificates are unacknowledged (meaning indigent defendants cannot find lawyers to take their case) today than in pre-pandemic times.  Ontario deserves a justice system that is fair for everyone. Properly funding the judiciary and the prosecution is important and appreciated, but it is not enough. Properly funding indigent accused, and counsel who assist them at far-below-market rates, is also needed to ensure that justice is truly done. We hope to give credit to those announcements really soon.