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Contents Top Newsmakers 4 Toronto business law guru Purdy Crawford found himself embroiled in 2008's largest financial stories. By Kelly Harris 5 Ontario Ombudsman André Marin made headlines with a couple of bull's-eye reports. By Jeffrey H. Waugh 6 Justice Stephen Goudge's report into the province's forensic pediatric pathology system has sparked change. By Glenn Kauth Top Cases 8-9 Zeroing in on five of the biggest cases of the year. By Robert Todd Top News Stories 10 Discussions on how to keep women in the profession dominated the year. By Jeffrey H. Waugh 11 Focusing in on the annus terribilis, or financial turmoil. By Kelly Harris 12 Justices Ted Matlow and Paul Cosgrove fight to stay on the bench. By Neal Adams 13 Justice Harry LaForme suddenly resigns from the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. By Robert Todd 14 After 16 years, Robert Baltovich is cleared of murder. By Glenn Kauth Robert Baltovich Harry LaForme Andrew Fleming Dimitri Lascaris Stephen Goudge André Marin eREPORTS included for no extra charge CANADA LAW BOOK's law reports and case summaries are no longer available on Quicklaw LexisNexis. Find them, instead, in BestCase, a web-based research service containing Canada's leading law reports and renowned case summary services as well as a comprehensive collection of unreported decisions dating back to 1977, and a case citator feature. BestCase includes: • Canadian Criminal Cases • Dominion Law Reports • Labour Arbitration Cases • Land Compensation Reports • Ontario Municipal Board Reports • All-Canada Weekly Summaries • Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries • Weekly Criminal Bulletin • Canada Law Book's Western Digest Services No more photocopying required to get copies of decisions exactly as they appear in a law report! Only on BestCase will you find images of reported decisions as they appear in our law reports, in a pdf file, complete with headnotes. Also available are images of original judgments as released by the court, with the official court stamps and signatures. Continuing Legal Education delivered to your desktop! BestCase subscribers can now receive our eREPORTS – electronic versions of "paper parts" of our law reports. Emailed to you, the eREPORTS link from the subject index to the full reported judgment (including headnote). Contact your Account Manager for pricing and more information www.canadalawbook.ca Canada Law Book is A Division of The Cartwright Group Ltd. 2008 top news & newsmakers 3 LT1201 Purdy Crawford Find the best in…