calgary defence blog

This blog is an extension of my previous post: “Not his fault, but still his fault”.  I write it for two reasons:

Though this post references the opioid crises, it is not about the opioid crisis.  It is about what I perceive to be a terrible callousness in our justice system that...

In the first two-weeks of Calgary’s street sweeping program the City has issued over 19,000 tickets and towed approximately 260 vehicles. 

This post is to explain the basics of a common dial-a-dope police investigation. Buy-and-bust is a very effective police technique, used to verify the identity of an alleged drug trafficker...

Almost every Calgary criminal lawyer accepts at least a few cases every year on Legal Aid.  To help avoid any confusion, I have elected to post my Legal Aid retainer...

The intention of today’s post is to provide some information to protect you from fraudsters.  

I have websites on the Internet.  I rely on them to earn a living.  Though I consider my websites to be necessary for business, they are secondary to the practice...

It's about time!  How many thousands of people have been sacrificed to recognize the value of our Charter rights?

As a Calgary criminal defence lawyer I often find myself arguing broad principles before Judges, asking them to assiduously protect the Charter protected interests of the accused so that the...

Global News Columnist, Erika Tucker, recently posed an interesting question: Why don’t Alberta judge’s know the law?