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PAGE 16 Enabling Lawyers through Technology Tel: 416.322.6111 Toll-free: 1.866.367.7648 doprocess com www The Confidential Inside Story NO CAMPAIGN FOR ARBOUR Louise Arbour won't be running for the Liberals, party officials confirm. Contrary to recent ru- mours that the former Supreme Court of Canada justice would run in a Quebec riding, Ar- bour won't be making the jump from the United Nations to the House of Commons. Earlier, party officials had ac- knowledged rumours Arbour would be seeking a Commons seat. She had already been the subject of political controversy this year as she wrapped up her job as the UN human rights com- missioner when a Tory cabinet minister called her a "disgrace" for her criticisms of Israel during its 2006 war with Lebanon. Arbour, a Montreal native, has had a distinguished career. She was first called to the Ontario bar in 1977 and then went on to become a judge of the then- Supreme Court of Ontario and later the Ontario Court of Ap- peal. In 1996, she broke onto the world stage as the chief prosecutor of war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. CJC COMMITTEE DELIBERATES ON JUDGE The fate of Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Cosgrove's career on the bench weighs in the balance as a committee of the Canadian Judicial Council ponders evidence gleaned during a nine-day inquiry. The committee, led by chair- man Lance Finch, chief justice of British Columbia, must now deliberate and issue a report to the council on the matter. That report must include a decision on whether or not a recommen- dation should be made to the federal justice minister to remove Cosgrove from office. The inquiry was called follow- ing a 2004 complaint by then- attorney general Michael Bry- ant regarding the 24-year veteran judge's handling of a 1997 mur- der trial involving Julia Elliott. Cosgrove stayed proceedings in the case in 1999, citing over 150 apparent Charter breaches by the Crown and police. The Ontario Court of Appeal overturned that ruling in 2003, and Elliott later pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Cosgrove apologized at the CJC inquiry for his handling of the Elliott case, and his lawyer said the judge was ill-equipped to deal with the "extraordinary" circumstances surrounding the highly publicized case. However, Cosgrove argued his conduct was not enough to warrant his removal from office. TERANET NABS DYE & DURHAM E-services company Teranet En- terprises Inc. has acquired the Ontario segment of Dye & Dur- ham's search and registration and legal corporate supplies business. 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Obviously talk didn't work and, finally for her, last week a judge found that the noise of the bells was louder than average. He also agreed that Leuzzi's hearing had been marginally impaired. The hearing impairment was awarded with "biological dam- ages" of only $9,000 ($13,800), whereas Leuzzi was awarded $46,000 ($70,500) for the dis- ruption to her social life (friends apparently wouldn't go visit her at home because of the clanging). September 22, 2008 • Law times Bizarre Briefs By Viola James The remaining compensation was for "moral damage." Queirolo will only be al- lowed to ring the bells on Sun- day and at Christmas and Eas- ter for 20 seconds at most. HOW NOT TO WRITE A STATEMENT OF CLAIM SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Say you've got a beef with a professor because he's ridiculing you in class and not giving you the marks you think you deserve, putting in jeopardy your dream of becom- ing a supreme court judge. You could go to authorities running your college or, if you're litigious, you could file a lawsuit. Some may consider the sec- ond option a bit overboard, but as long as you go through the process, it is what it is. Where the Franchesca O'Neal's case got off the rails is when her statement of claim seemed to include, well, death threats. She asked for $300,000 in damages against her speech in- structor Charles Falcon at Alamo Community College. But in her filings, noted she was previously in the military and "can handle a sidearm and a semi-automatic as- sault rifle," and that "any person of sound mind is not immune to a psychotic break and subsequent killing spree." She went on to state that "in exchange for every penny I have asked for, I would shoot him dead and walk away pen- niless," and she would, "blow the back of his head out." While nothing has yet been hashed out in court on this mat- ter, the Alamo Community Col- lege District has taken the step of barring O'Neal from its San Antonio College campus and fil- ing a temporary restraining order preventing her from contacting Falcon. O'Neal told KSAT 12 News the legal claim was not a violent threat, but a "spirited dis- cussion in the courts." RED LIGHTS GO DARK TAIPAI, Taiwan — The last pimp in Taiwan is dead and so is legalized prostitution in the country. Authorities have turned off the red light at Ai-Le, the country's last legal brothel, after its 87-year-old pimp died. The permit of the 48-year-old business could not be transferred or renewed. Taiwan outlawed prostitution in 1997. The licens- ing of new brothels had stopped in 1974, however brothels li- censed prior to that were allowed to keep operating. Illegal broth- els still dot the island today. The closure effectively leaves Ai-Le's two prostitutes, aged 40 and 50, jobless. 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