Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Cat Chaos Grounds Canadian Flight for Hours

What would happen if a cat escaped and decided to run around a huge commercial flight to Canada? It’s utter chaos. This is what the passengers of Air Canada Flight 603 from Halifax to Toronto experienced when a cat accidentally escaped its carrying case and decided to run all over the plane. According to the [...]

January 31, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Issues with the person next door!

Problems with one’s neighbours mainly arise as a result of difficulties in human relationships but will call for legal intervention when it becomes unsolvable between individuals concerned. Amazingly people do put up with inconveniences if they are friendly to one another. When relationships are strained even minute problems tend to get blown out of proportion! [...]

January 30, 2012   Posted in: News, Opinion  No Comments

11 Day Jail Sentence, the price to pay for a Woman with Overdue Books

Library Book Penalties – we often ignore this type of penalty, tagging it as petty and irrelevant. But the that’s a different story for the people of Montreal. Overdue books are a serious business. Just ask the woman who was arrested this week in Shawinigan after she refused to pay the penalty of $235 for [...]

January 24, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

The increasing popularity of Tenancy in Common

Rules relating to co-ownership of property are complex and it is paradoxical that despite obtaining professional advice from solicitors/conveyancers the ultimate decision is left to property owners to choose what is best for them depending on individual circumstances. There are predominantly two types of joint ownership- joint tenancy (JT) and tenancy in common (TC). In [...]

January 17, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Woman who treats pet kangaroo like a child moves town to dodge authorities

Christie Carr, a 39-year-old woman from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma chose to move her home in order to keep Irwin, her pet kangaroo. Just last year the city council released a new guideline mandating exotic animal owners to have a $50,000 liability insurance policy to cover any accidents caused by their valued pets. Irwin suffered brain [...]

January 17, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

‘Incredible Hulk’ robs New York bank

Instead of hearing the famous lines, “you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”, the teller at the Northwest Savings branch at McKinley Parkway heard “this is a robbery” as a suspect wearing an Incredible Hulk mask began to demand money. A young man in his 20’s entered the bank at around 3:10pm dressed in faded [...]

January 16, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

PayPal dispute ends in ‘violin destruction’

A former violin owner has claimed that when she tried to sell her antique $2,500 instrument via Paypal, her Canadian buyer accused her of trying to sell a fake – with the result that the violin ended up being destroyed by Paypal. This claim has appeared on the blog Regrety in which the upset seller’s [...]

January 13, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

PR & Marketing for Solicitors

Public relations, marketing and advertising are relatively new concepts to the struggling, traditional legal services sector.   Solicitors practices really need help to survive, from someone who knows the legal services market and also has marketing expertise within it.   So, this year, Nicola Matheson-Durrant, Director of the Family Law Clinic, (love them or loathe them!) will be providing [...]

January 12, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Holidaymakers Get the Hump with Camel

A grumpy camel has led to another case focusing on the duty of care owed by tour operators for accidents which occur during holidays. Two holidaymakers with Kuoni Travel went on a camel safari during a holiday to Rajasthan, India. They were intending to set off from their hotel on the two-humped camel where they [...]

January 12, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Swedish file-sharing religion Kopimism

The Swedish government has given formal religious recognition to a ’church’ whose ‘religion’ is the right to file-share. The Church of Kopimism say that ‘kopyacting’ (sharing information through copying) is effectively a religious service and the sharing of files a religious ceremony. CTRL+C and CTRL+V (shortcuts for copy and paste) are viewed as sacred symbols.  [...]

January 11, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments