Heather Gardiner of Canadian Lawyer covered the results of the Twitter Moot in Osgoode Tweets to Victory.

Ryan McNutt of Dal News covered the Twitter Moot in Tweeting before the courts.

The first-ever Twitter Moot was held on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, at 10am PST (1pm EST).  Omar Ha-Redeye was one of three participating judges.  Congratulations to Osgoode Hall students for winning the competition.

See more background on Slaw.

West Coast Environmental Law Twitter Moot Record

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The National Post mentioned the Twitter Moot in 5 Things to Watch:

#TWTMOOT

3 Three pretend judges and two teams of real students from some of Canada’s top law schools will participate in a “Twitter Moot” on Tuesday, in which they pretend to argue the appeal of West Moberly First Nations v. British Columbia, a precedent-setting environmental law case, entirely in bursts of 140-characters. With a natural tendency toward verbosity, lawyers seem unlikely Twitterers, but as Omar Ha-Redeye, a Toronto lawyer acting as a Twitter Moot judge, tweeted: “From judge’s perspective, conciseness is not aspirational, it is essential.”

Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed on CBC Radio One on the Twitter Moot.

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The Times Colonist covered the Twitter Moot in the article, UVic law students will compete today in world’s first moot court on Twitter.

Alex Consiglio of the Toronto Sun covered the Twitter Moot in Osgoode Law students take arguments to Twitter

Gillian Shaw of PostMedia covered the Twitter Moot in the Montreal’s The Gazette, Saskatoon’s The StarPhoenix, Regina’s Leader Post, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, The Windsor Star, The Province, and Canada.com,

The Twitter Moot is being organized and hosted by West Coast Environmental Law and it’s bringing together — virtually — law students from UBC, Dalhousie, Ottawa, Victoria, and York’s Osgoode Hall in a competition that will see them present arguments via Twitter in a simulated appeal of an actual court case, last May’s B.C. Court of Appeal decision in West Moberly First Nations vs. British Columbia (Chief Inspector of Mines).

Teams of two from each school have been assigned to represent various parties in the appeal, including the government of B.C. and First Coal Corp., West Moberly First Nations and interveners, and will each have 10 minutes to make their arguments through Twitter.

The team representing the province of British Columbia will go first in what has been dubbed the Supreme Twitter Court of Canada, laying out its reasons why the appeal should be allowed. The team will be asked questions by a panel of three judges that includes University of Calgary law professor Kathleen Mahoney, lawyer and blogger Omar Ha-Redeye and lawyer turned mystery author William Deverell.

Omar Ha-Redeye spoke to Neelam Verma on Sun Television about the Brian Sinclair case, which went before a judge on Feb. 13, 2012 to consider a dismissal motion. The case was unique in that it advanced a Charter and privacy breach as the basis for compensation by the estate.

Judgment was reserved, and the decision will be forthcoming. Relevant pleadings below.

Grant v. WRHA – Re-Amended Statement of Claim

Grant v. WRHA Et Al – WRHA Brief

Grant v. WRHA Et Al – Province Brief 1

Grant v. WHRA Et Al – Province Brief 2

Grant v. WRHA – Plaintiff’s Brief

The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that a more onerous test for determining capacity of the mentally disabled was not supported by a close reading of the Canada Evidence Act.  See more on Slaw.

An important resource used by the majority in interpreting the Act was the so-called “Bala Report,” or the Brief on Bill C-2: Recognizing the Capacities & Needs of Children as Witnesses in Canada’s Criminal Justice System, Child Witness Project, attached below.

Brief on Bill C-2