No ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Solution to the Province’s Bail System
Toronto Star reports, Black people in Ontario spend more time in jail awaiting trial than white people, even when charged with the same type of crime, according to data recently released by the province. Government officials admit it’s yet another syste...
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Falconair Lands at Fisher Field
Falconair expresses appreciation to Dave Fisher, at Fisher Field Airport, for the hospitality south of Shelburne. Julian Falconer landed at Fisher Field to attend a Law Society retreat at Hockley Valley. For more information on Fisher Field Airport click...
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Law Society drops “Upper Canada” from its name
Update: On October 17, 2017, The Lawyer’s Daily reported that with “Upper Canada” being officially dropped from the title of Ontario’s law society, the regulator is in the process of determining what its new name should be. Falconer was quoted...
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Falconers LLP Lawyer Elected to the Board of the YMCA of Greater Toronto
Falconers LLP is pleased to announce that one of our associates, Akosua Matthews, has been elected to the Board of the YMCA of Greater Toronto, as the first Board Member under the age of 35. Akosua previously served on the YMCA of Greater Toronto’s ...
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Protesters Gather Outside Oshawa Courthouse for Dafonte Miller
Cp24 reports that Members of Black Lives Matter- Toronto and the Anti-Racism Network of Durham Region held a rally outside the Oshawa courthouse on Wednesday, September 27, 2017, ahead of a pre-trial hearing for Toronto Police Officer, Michael Theriaul...
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Ontario Police Watchdog systemic review of the Thunder Bay Police Service
Update: CBC reports that Gerry McNeilly, Ontario’s Independent Police Review Director, hosted a three-hour-long public meeting, which an estimated over-250 people attended in Thunder Bay on Monday, September 25, 2017. McNeilly says he still expect...
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Failure to call for Senator Beyak’s Resignation: Thunder Bay City Council
In a press release on September 26, 2017, Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s (“NAN”) Grand Chief, Alvin Fiddler, and Fort William First Nation’s (“FWFN”) Chief Peter Collins, communities provided legal council by Falconers LLP, is...
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Dafonte Miller Case Prompts Durham Police to Adopt New SIU Notification Procedure
In the wake of the Dafonte Miller case, the Durham Regional Police Chief, Paul Martin, vowed to implement a new policy for reporting incidents to the Special Investigations Unit (“SIU”) CP24 reports. In a written statement released Monday, Sep...
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Racial Profiling Case Important for New Generation of Lawyers
In April 2017, in the Divisional Court ruling of Elmardy v. Toronto Police Services Board 2017, Justice Harriet Sachs, Justice Ian Nordheimer (as he then was), and Justice Nancy Spies, ruled that a Black plaintiff, Mr. Mutaz Elmardy, had been racially pro...
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A Balancing Act: Does A Sovereign First Nation Have The Right To Remove Visitors From The Community Based On Their Legal And Cultural Traditions?
August 30, 2017: That is the question that a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing in Thunder Bay is going to have to answer. Sandy Lake First Nation, represented by Falconers LLP lawyer, Asha James, has the right as a sovereign nation to exercise its cu...
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Toronto Police Chief must ‘educate’ officers about their duty to police watchdog: SIU Director, Loparco
Six months before the alleged assault by off-duty Toronto officer, Michael Theriault on black teen Dafonte Miller, the director of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, asked police Chief Mark Saunders to “educate” his officers on the...
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Major Editorial Boards Calling for Change: Police Oversight
The ‘simply terrifying’ case of Falconers LLP client, Dafonte Miller, a young Black man, who was allegedly beaten by an off-duty Toronto police officer, Michael Theriault, and his brother in December of 2016, was a gratuitous attack, which all...
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