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Why was this case before the civil courts instead of the church courts?
ChristianGovernance question #1: Why was this case before the civil courts instead of before the church courts?
OneNewsNow – November 29, 2010
Former Muslim guilty of embezzling church money
By Becky Yeh
Terrifying definition of “justice” by supreme court judge Rosalie Abella
The Lethbridge Herald – October 26, 2010
‘I’ve always seen justice as the application of law to life’
By Caroline Zentner
Court rules witness can wear niqab
CBC News – October 13, 2010
Fairness of a trial must be taken into account: ruling
The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that the victim of an alleged sexual assault may not have to remove her niqab while testifying as long as the fairness of a trial is not compromised. In the 3-0 ruling Wednesday, the court upheld an earlier decision by the Superior Court. A lower court had ordered the 32-year-old Muslim woman, identified only as N.S., to remove the traditional veil, which covers most of her face.
Abusive judicial incompetence in Ontario’s family law system?
September 17, 2010
Ontario Law Reform Commission Gives Family Law Process a Failing Grade
Ontario’s Law Reform Commission has come down hard on the family law system in that Province. After surveying over one hundred participants in the family law process, including lawyers, judges, mediators, social workers and psychologists, the Commission does not have a lot of good things to say about how family law is done in Ontario.