Strictly Legal Ii

With new and updated information and an additional chapter Canadians live by the rule of law. In theory, we are all equally governed by the law and we all have equal access to our justice system, but in practice, says Toronto lawyer Michael Cochrane, we don't know enough about our legal rights and obligations. We fear the court system because of its slowness and its cost. And we put off or muddle through important things like Wills and contracts because we don't want to pay for a lawyer to help us. We don't really know what the law is until we are in danger of breaking it. There are situations when we need legal information, however, and Michael Cochrane's book will help you to know what questions to ask and what steps you should take to safeguard your legal rights and carry out your legal obligations. The second edition of the popular Strictly Legal, the book is divided into eleven chapters, each explaining ten things you absolutely need to know about an area of Canadian law, including hiring a lawyer, contracts, real estate transactions, criminal law, wills and estates, employment law, and intellectual property protection. As the host of the BNN TV show Strictly Legal, Michael Cochrane answered thousands of questions from average Canadians about our laws, and he brings that same talent for making complex issues understandable to this book. With new and updated material, this book brings current Canadian law into focus for every reader. New information includes: a list of helpful websites and other resources; the latest information on fast-changing areas of law such as Family Law and Privacy Law; an overview of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with an emphasis on the ways it affects our everyday lives.

When Canadians have legal problems, they need useful and understandable legal information OCo not legal mumbo-jumbo or weaselly fine print. We are living in a society that is becoming increasingly complicated. While trying to raise families, buy homes and keep our jobs, we are ''bumping into each other'' more and more. In this book, lawyer Michael Cochrane provides straight answers to common legal questions he encounters each week on his TV program, Strictly Legal"

Strictly Legal and is set in the South West Dublin of 2002, a period of time which may seem not so long ago, but on closer inspection can appear a very different world to what we are living today. The novel is a subversive and anarchically humorous piece of writing, yet depicts a society and generation which is sliding rapidly into a cultural quagmire. The principal narrator is a sixteen year old boy by the name of Dosser Doyle. Dosser is an entrepreneur in a very unique way. He grows and fabricates one hundred per cent legal life enhancers which he then sells as a blood free alternative to the mainstream illegal drugs available on the citys streets. Dosser considers himself to be an ambassador of morality and sees his business as a very worthwhile crusade against the tide of rising drug crime. Of course in reality, these reasons are shown to be superficial at best as it becomes clear that Dossers main concerns are pure devilment and his activities are predominately a means of expressing his personal sense of otherness and his rejection of the generally accepted state of affairs in youth culture. In this way, the book deals with a kind of double subversion. The drug world which is supposed to be a subversive force in society is actually shown to be an established order, while Dosser then attempts to subvert this culture in order to express his individuality. Dosser is joined in his endeavours by his best friend Tarzan and an older associate Gobber Gilsenan. These two characters are the secondary narrators in the novel and have their own idiosyncrasies which should become evident on reading their stories. Ultimately the belief system which Dosser promulgates will be undermined by those closest to him and he will end the novel in a state of disillusionment culminating in a crushing demise.