RH Criminal Defence

03/27/2020

Check out my latest blog, why the end of peremptory challenges is the beginning of the end of the commonwealth. If Jagmeet Singh and others want political interference in jury trials and in the presumption of innocence for whites accused of crimes against non-whites, I think we should let them have it.

26 March, 2020 - When I was growing up, I don't think I ever met a single French-Canadian, but when the 1995 Quebec referendum unfolded, I felt a deep connection and solidarity with them and stayed up into the early morning hours anxiously awaiting the results from Montreal to make sure we were stil...

06/05/2019

Check out my latest blog post A Minority of One: Why I Oppose the Statement of Principles

30 May, 2019 - The controversy over the Statement of Principles, a requirement by the Law Society of Ontario that all Ontario lawyers create and abide by an individual Statement of Principles and acknowledge the obligation to promote

03/28/2019

Check out my latest blog post: you can stand on the other side of humanity and be right:

26 March, 2019 - For virtually my entire life, I have been in the minority when it comes to thinking. I can remember this happening all throughout my life from the time I was nine years old and liked the song Fight the Power by Public Enemy while most of my classmates liked New Kids on the Block (an...

03/13/2019

I did a really fun podcast with the Osgoode Legal Entrepreneurs Organization talking about the intersection between criminal defence and entrepreneurship, why you shouldn’t listen to your parents and why we ought to be encouraging lawyers to try things that are new. Check it out if for some reason you are interested in what I have to say:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/195650/988163

02/21/2019

My client was just acquitted of impaired care or control of a motor vehicle and over 80 control of a motor vehicle after a two day trial in Brampton.

02/12/2019

Check out my latest blog post: the thin line between success and failure - what Sidney Crosby’s 2016 Stanley Cup can teach lawyers:

12 February, 2019 - In 2015, Sidney Crosby was going through the worst slump of his career. He had 15 points in 23 games and instead of being in his usual top 5 spot among the NHL scoring leaders, was ranked somewhere in the hundreds. Sports writers started to write him off as going through an inevi...

02/11/2019

Check out my latest article on the importance of the presumption of innocence outside the courtroom:

It is my contention that the presumption of innocence is not merely a legal construct, as Michael Spratt argues in his article The presumption of innocence is for the court of law, not for protecting the reputations of the powerful, but a way of thinking about the competing values when an allegation...

12/17/2018

Check out my article in Canadian Lawyer Mag about why staying out of debt might be more important than the law school you attend and why those that think otherwise may simply be feeling the influence of American television:

Should Canadians, with limited means, be willing to hand over huge sums of money to attend certain law schools in Canada?

11/20/2018

What law students and legal entrepreneurs can learn from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off:

19 November, 2018 - “Life moves pretty fast” says a young Matthew Broderick to the camera breaking the fourth wall with the audience in the classic 80s movie Ferris Buerller’s Day Off. “If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

11/07/2018

If you ever wanted to know why Larry David’s Show is funny, why golf is a ridiculous game and what it has to do with practicing criminal law, check out my latest blog post:

5 November, 2018 - To whoever said that “golf is a good walk spoiled” – I say amen brother! Before you read this post and think I am crazy, you have to understand that I am Jewish and Jews get irrational annoyances out of all proportion to the general population.

10/24/2018

My client’s charge of possession for the purpose of trafficking co***ne was withdrawn today in Oshawa.

10/13/2018

Check out my latest reported decision. This is the case I spoke to the CBC about a few weeks ago where my client was given significant credit on sentence because of constant lockdowns at the Toronto South Detention Centre:

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