Reading Time: 3 minutes If the attack on Parliament and on Canadian Armed Forces members constituted a failure by the state to exercise its fundamental ‘night watchman’ function, it was probably not a failure of law. It may not necessarily have been a failure of law enforcement. It was certainly a failure of omniscience. And that may mean it […]
Bench Press 38-3: First Case Under the Justice For Victims of Terrorism Act
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dr. Sherri Wise of Toronto was severely injured in a Hamas terrorist bomb attack in Israel in 1997. She has made a claim against Iran for compensation for her injuries under the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (JVTA) which was passed by the Canadian parliament in 2012. However, an American family (Bennett) has already […]
