Article Originally Published on June 21, 2012 by Advocate Daily. Recently proposed changes to Canada’s immigration laws allowing for automatic deportation of permanent residents, refugees and visitors sentenced to more than six months in prison, should be alarming to all…
Article Originally Published on May 23, 2012 by Advocate Daily. The case of an elderly home invasion victim who ended up spending 75 days in jail after making a 911 call, highlights the difficulty police face when they arrive on a…
Toronto criminal lawyer Aaron Harnett tells Law Times that legal aid block fee rates are too low. “It’s a terrible place for a criminal lawyer to make a living,” says Toronto lawyer Aaron Harnett of the legal aid system. “Many…
Article Originally Published on September 29, 2011 by Advocate Daily. Toronto criminal lawyer Aaron Harnett says the "extremely careful and sophisticated" conditional sentence handed to his client for his part in smashing windows during the G20 summit, may not be available for…
Article Originally Published on April 27, 2011 by Advocate Daily. Toronto criminal lawyer Aaron Harnett says he welcomes the federal government’s decision to appeal an Ontario ruling that if left to stand could legalize possession of marijuana in the province. Harnett, who…
International travelers are getting tripped up by the CBSA’s cross-border currency reporting rules. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1647481390
“The lawyer for a recently convicted child killer who was found dead in his cell last week is raising questions over the level of supervision of his client at an Ontario prison….Just 48 hours before he was found dead, Manion…
Manion’s lawyer, Aaron Harnett, said it was too early to comment about the case, but said the arrest has been hard on the Manion family…”The family feels like a bomb has been blown up underneath them and they love their…
“This one had a ring of truth beyond anything I’ve encountered in ten years… You know absolutely that you’re defending people who have been wrongly charged, and abused by the system, abused by a couple of different systems.” https://www.mcintyre.ca/titles/CTV087
“…the case has centred on the two perpetrators — and perpetrators they are, having acknowledged from the get-go they are responsible for the killing, though their lawyers argue it was manslaughter. Much of the evidence called by prosecutor John McMahon…