Canadian Group Takes Up Defense of International Human Rights Advocates
19/11/2003
Houle, Elizabeth A. Law Society of Upper Canada (December 2002) The Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association Newsletter for the Defense Vol. 23 No. 6, 2003 The Criminal Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 2 November 2003 Guatemala, September 1990. Anthropologist Myrna Mack was … [Read more...]
Vancouver lawyer doubts ‘suicide’ of Mexican human rights lawyer
04/07/2003
Houle, Elizabeth A. THE LAWYERS WEEKLY, Vol. 23, No. 10, July 4 2003, page 16. The investigation into the shooting death of Mexican lawyer and human rights advocate Digna Ochoa took an abrupt twist when the Prosecutor began looking for indications that the death may have been suicide, not … [Read more...]
Report on the Digna Ochoa Murder Investigation
24/07/2002
Davidson, Gail for Lawyers Rights Watch Canada & The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (July 24 2002) I. MANDATE OF LAWYERS RIGHTS WATCH CANADA & THE BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF ENGLAND AND WALES Inter-American Court of Human Rights Order Criticisms of the … [Read more...]
The Homicide of Digna Ochoa
24/05/2002
McAlpine, John, Q.C. The Advocate, Vol. 60 Part 3, May 2002, page 379. Digna Ochoa was a much-respected Mexican lawyer and human rights defender who was shot to death on October 19, 2001. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the “IACHR”), in its resolution of October 25, 2001, described … [Read more...]
Newsletter VOLUME 1 No. 7, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, May 2002
01/05/2002
VOLUME 1 No. 7, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, May 2002 SINGAPORE UPDATE J.B. Jeyaretnam: Lawyer/Member of Parliament (another triumph for the written word) LRWC member / director Howard Rubin, as a joint representative of LRWC and Amnesty International, attended Jeyaretnam’s final … [Read more...]
Foreign role seen in end to Malaysian lawyer’s prosecution
19/04/2002
Wilhelmson, Michael Lawyers Weekly, Vol. 21, No. 47, April 19, 2002, page 8 On January 14, 2000, Karpal Singh, a prominent human rights lawyer, deputy chairman of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) and former opposition Member of Parliament was arrested on a charge of sedition under … [Read more...]
President’s View: No guts, no allegory
24/03/2002
Gibbs, Richard C., Q.C. 2002 The Law Society of British Columbia: No. 2 March-April Malaysia. Constitutional monarchy. Parliamentary democracy. Federal state. An Executive responsible to Parliament. Heavy influence of British legal tradition. An independent judiciary. The Barisan Nasional, the … [Read more...]
