O'Brien Law Office

02/03/2020

The lack of adequate funding for legal aid is unacceptable. It is past time for the provincial government to raise the legal aid tariff for the first time since 2008. The Justice minister’s dismissive treatment of the private bar (which handles the vast majority of legal aid files in Manitoba) is nothing short of a travesty. This job action is being taken to highlight the urgency of the situation.

Private defence attorneys in Manitoba are refusing to represent legal aid clients in bail court, as part of job action in a dispute over pay and workload, the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association of Manitoba president says.

01/11/2020

Private defence attorneys in Manitoba are refusing to show up for bail court next week, as they try to sway the province to increase their legal aid pay.

12/16/2019

Tougher sanctions for impaired driving in Manitoba take effect Monday.

12/02/2019

No legal aid tariff increase for over a decade, despite repeated recommendations in favour of an increase. This has to change.

A potential strike is looming for Manitoba’s private criminal defence lawyers as they lobby the provincial government for their first legal-aid pay increase in 11 years. Manitoba’s justice department hasn’t yet responded to recent recommendations that call for cost-of-living increases to the r...

10/17/2019

Majority of court finds that s. 11(1) of Charter confers binary, not global right

04/04/2019

A woman involved in a deadly head-on crash is off the hook on drunk-driving charges because a police officer asked a hospital nurse for the results her urine test and then obtained a search warrant to seize her samples, Ontario's top court has ruled.

03/28/2019

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03/04/2019

Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is publicly musing about whether Canada should consider separating the offices of its attorney general and its minister of justice in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin controversy, an idea that has backing from others who know the job intimately.