Vol. 25 No. 1, August 2000
Index
- Another viewpoint (on its twenty-fifth anniversary, Law Now dedicates itself anew to the cause of justice).
- Hypnosis defence (an Alberta man is acquitted of impaired driving on the grounds that he was under a trance).
- Matrimonial property and common law couples.
- Sharper than a serpent's tooth (an adult child severs child support and educational funding by rejecting her father).
- Canada passes new legislation respecting crimes against humanity.
- Domestic violence court opens in Calgary.
- First Canadian DNA lab accredited for forensics testing.
- Why are men violent?
- Perils of politics (Alberta's Court of Appeal issues a split decision over the liability of provincial politicians in hospital negligence claims).
- Is your employer merging?
- Monitoring privacy.
- Off-duty dilemmas (courts are hesitant to recognize an employer's right to monitor an employee's activities away from the workplace).
- Working kids (employment of children in Canada is regulated by law).
- Employer's duty to accommodate.
- Missing the mark: when student assessment goes wrong.
- Mini-mock trial (grading in subjective courses like social studies is often problematic).
- Domain names & online ADR.
- Consumer law for the info highway.
- Cybercrime.
- Rodeo season and specific claims (native land claims involve prime agricultural land given to European immigrants at bargain prices).
- "Guaranteed employment until death" (the practice of slavery has been upheld and defended by law in the past).
- Suing your abuser.
- Alberta and the notwithstanding clause.
- (Albet) Camus' Stranger: a hero for out troubled times?
- Stranger.
- Your path to information on justice in Alberta.