The Attorney General’s Loss: Madness, Homicide & Insurance, Continued

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

I previously wrote about this sad case here and here. By way of a brief recap, Ved Dhingra suffered from schizophrenia for several years and had been in and out of hospital following various suicide attempts. On June 9, 2006, following another suicide attempt, Mr. Dhingra was released from hospital ...

A Valentine to Kindergarten

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

My daughter has a fantastic kindergarten teacher. Ms. Raymond is astoundingly organized, creative, and cheerful. Not surprisingly, my daughter adores Ms. Raymond (and, as a consequence, school too). I was thinking about my daughter’s kindergarten teacher in the context of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) ’s new “lawyers’ communication campaign”, called ...

Horse and Buggy Technology and Court Records

Friday, January 11th, 2013

I previously wrote about Justice David Brown’s seeming frustration with the Toronto Estate’s list court filing system.  My colleague, Angela Casey, also bemoaned the demise of the electronic court scheduling system for the Estates list, OSCAR, last year. The apparent lack of progress in modernizing court records systems is felt in ...