140 Law – Legal Headlines for October 13, 2011

Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:

• Stricken ship’s captain arrested as crack appears –http://goo.gl/S7Jde
• Herpes sex case charge questioned – CBC.ca – http://goo.gl/lXfjQ
• Labour & employment law tops list of areas in which execs want advice – http://goo.gl/XSw6C
• First female Chief Justice for Quebec – http://goo.gl/bPGyl 
• Police urge Pickton inquiry not to judge them in hindsight –http://goo.gl/zy0Qf
• Oakville lawyer charged with fraud in alleged embezzlement scheme – Globe and Mail – http://goo.gl/73×54
• Do Judges Really Find Plain English More Persuasive? –http://goo.gl/RTsNj 
• When is it hate speech?: 7 significant Canadian cases – CBC.ca –http://goo.gl/JNGQn
• Amnesty calls on Canada to arrest George W. Bush –http://goo.gl/iv0Mg
• “Conduct Unbecoming a Teacher”? – http://goo.gl/Uup6f
• Top Court to weigh free speech vs. hate protection – CBC.ca –http://goo.gl/x1jiq 
• Texas court formally exonerates man who spent nearly 25 years in prison for wife’s slaying – http://goo.gl/cyu4a
• Strip-Search Argument Before Supreme Court Justices –http://goo.gl/095Cj
• 5 men arraigned in forceful beard-cuttings of fellow Amish –http://goo.gl/CRDpX
• Cameron Ward’s opening statement – Vancouver Sun –http://goo.gl/nv5f6
• Council set to debate what to do with $140 M windfall from land transfer tax – http://goo.gl/0eOKF
• Blogging and social media helps small firms compete –http://goo.gl/Zbzcr