Court upholds civil rights against religious doctrine

by Zvi Halpern and Michelle Landy

This commentary was first published in the Toronto Star on December 21, 2007.

Legal disputes involving religious doctrines should not be beyond the reach of the courts. Otherwise, claims of religious freedom would immunize wrongful behaviour from legal consequences.

In her monthly column in the Law Times, Prof. Lorraine Weinrib analyzes the constitutional and other issues relating to the possibility of prosecuting polygamy in Canada ("Permissibility of polygamy put in new light," October 15, 2007).

Read the full column on the Law Times website.

Insolvency bill never got proper scrutiny

by Jacob Ziegel

This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on December 18, 2007.

Prof. Trudo Lemmens, with co-authors Mireille Lacroix, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health Law and Ethics Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, and Prof. Roxanne Mykitiuk of York University's Osgoode Hall law school, has published a new book, Reading the future?: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Predictive Genetic Testing (Cowansville: Les Éditions Thémis, 2007). The book also includes contributions from Prof. Lisa Austin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and from Prof.