The first-ever 2012 Twitter Moot will be held on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, at 10am PST (1pm EST).  Omar Ha-Redeye will be one of three participating judges.  See more background on Slaw.

Current sponsors include Iler Campbell LLP, McCarthy Tetrault, Miller Thomson LLP, Saxe Law Corporation, Skunkworks Communications, and Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP.

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Twitter Moot Info for Students

Omar Ha-Redeye will be judging the UCLA Cyber Crimes Moot Court Competition in Los Angeles, California, from April 6-8, 2012.

The nationwide competition is possible through the support of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB) and Norton by Symantec.

Rules of the competition are available here.

This year’s honorees were Jack Fireman, Q.C., of Fireman Steinmetz and Brian Brock of Dutton Brock.

Jack Fireman at the Celebration of the Personal Injury Bar

(From Left): Jamie Fox, Tally Vanounou, and Alexander Rozine of D'Angela Fox Vanounou LLP, and Omar Ha-Redeye

(Photo Courtesy of Xtra! Magazine)

See more on Slaw, Rob Salerno at Xtra! magazine, and a video clip with Colin D’Mello on CTV.

Photo and Video of Omar Ha-Redeye at Pride 2011 on CTV

Finalists (From Left): Cristina Internicola, Teanna Bailey, Jonathan Hendricks, and Sara Nagalingam

Omar Ha-Redeye was a judge in the preliminary rounds of the 4th Annual Diversity Moot, held at the 2011 Black Law Students Association of Canada (BLSAC) Conference. Omar Ha-Redeye was the winner of the national competition in 2009.

The competition is sponsored Koskie Minsky LLP.

This year’s problem focused on Arctic sovereignty in a dispute between Canada and the U.S.

The competition is hosted by the  Canada-United States Law Institute (CUSLI) and involves participation from the following schools in Canada and America:

American University Washington College of Law
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Cornell University Law School
Georgetown University Law Center
Michigan State University College of Law
Queen’s University Faculty of Law
Seattle University Law School
St. Louis University School of Law
University at Buffalo Law School
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
University of Windsor Faculty of Law
Valparaiso University School of Law
Washington University School of Law
William Mitchell College of Law

Sponsors included DLA Piper, Fasken Martineau, Crowell Moring, Cassels Brock, McMillan, and Torys LLP.

Award for Best Advocate went to David Kocan & Brandon Wheeler, with Second Place going to Jason Urbaniak and Catherine Mariano, Third Place to Kaitlyn Faucett and Matt Vance, and Fourth Place to Kurt Kruckerberg.  Complete results of the competition can be found here.

Niagara Problem 2010

Omar Ha-Redeye was a judge in the 2011 American Bar Association (ABA) Client Counseling Competition for Region 6, which includes schools from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario.  This year the Region 6 competition was held in London, Ontario, at the University of Western Ontario.

Omar Ha-Redeye won the 2007 Borden Ladner Gervais Client Counselling Competition and proceeded to the semi-finals in the 2008 ABA Regionals.

The article features an interview with Patrick Brown of McLeish Orlando LLP, and mentions  Winslow T. Wheeler’s testimony to the House of Commons on F-35 fighter jets.

	How to really support our troops
Omar Ha-Redeye’s column

Life After Law School Osgoode 2011

The article discussed a recent study by Tanya Trussler of the Department of Sociology at McGill University in the International Criminal Justice Review indicating a lower clearance of homicides.

Agnew claimed the reason for the lower clearnace is that Canadians have too many individual legal rights.

Omar Ha-Redeye stated,

James Agnew suggests that the enforcement of law and order take precedence over individual rights, including guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Individual rights are not an insult to police. They are a testament to the values that we expect them as servants of the public to uphold and cherish while carrying out their duties.
A police state where such rights would not exist would be a scary country indeed, more reminiscent to what we call in modern parlance a “failed state.”