Apr 9, 2015
Early Lesson from the #Duffy Trial: The Bar needs to focus, not wince at the sight of a "bright line" rule
Early Lesson from the #Duffy Trial: The Bar needs to focus, not wince at the sight of a “bright line” rule
Amid the media frenzy over the morality play unfolding in an Ottawa courtroom, the bar has a lesson to glean from the argument over the interaction between the Canadian Senate’s expense rules and the Criminal Code. (“Blame the rules, not Mike Duffy, defence says.”)
Mr. Duffy’s defence lawyer contends the Senate’s self-imposed rules permitted practices such as claiming housing expenses for…
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