Dominic Lamb

Criminal and regulatory lawyer at Lamb and O’Brien practicing in Eastern Ontario. Past president of the Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa.

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

@Charlie_Senack Another business- gone - cheered by that most sneering of mobs who’ve never created a job or taken a risk, profited from the pandemic, never lost a dime of salary or a nights sleep over job security while saving a bundle not commuting and avoiding daycare while wfh - very sad imo

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

#A2J

[Ottawa Citizen @OttawaCitizen]

Chef Yannick LaSalle to leave Les Fougères to cook for the Supreme Court of Canada's judges https://t.co/DQZY5eHWoh

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

@fionajarvis4 @LawSocietyLSO And now you can’t even get info on expertise in the field because they are cancelled the CS program in favour of… nothing

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

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The @lawsocietylso, in contrast to every analogous self-regulating profession, refuses to protect the public by including in their directory of professionals any substantive information on year of call, years of insured practice etc.

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

@fionajarvis4 @LawSocietyLSO Part of my original point was we should be noting year of call, “years of insured practice” etc - it gives an otherwise uninformed member of the public some actual info to work with - I can’t fathom why we as a profession don’t provide this info

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

Is this actually happening? No record, minor charges, questionable breach allegations… I spent a good part of my career lobbying for bail reform - the CCC amendments in 2018, Antic and Zora were supposed to fix things - they obviously mean nothing.

[Ottawa Citizen @OttawaCitizen]

'Freedom Convoy' organizer Tamara Lich denied bail https://t.co/zdNupTzAwl

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

The @lawsocietylso is simply unfit for purpose as a regulator whose primary purpose is to protect the public.

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

The solitary designation that provides some minimal insight into the skillset of the lawyer a person considers hiring is the certified specialist designation - and in their infinite wisdom @lawsocietylso is eliminating the CS.

[Percy Street tweets @percytweets]

#centretown … so much to answer for😬

[Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium]

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[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

@JamesDBowie I don’t think most of you want to follow me because I don’t think any of these people should have had contested bail hearings to begin with - they should have been released on consent of the crown

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

Glad to see the DCAO exec raising principled - not partisan - concerns about the invocation of these extraordinary powers. It is imperative to speak up in the face of such state overreach.

[DCAO @The_DCAO]

Statement from the DCAO Executive on the invocation of the federal Emergencies Act.

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

@johnstruthers president of the @ClaOntario retweeting the ottawa police, thanking the prime minister for the emergencies act - I’ve seen it all now - “working for the clampdown”

[Michael Lacy @crimlacy]

Amazing to see all of the criminal defence lawyers weighing in on Ottawa bail hearings. Wondering why no delayed hearings, why no detention on tertiary grounds etc. Sad state if you ask me

[Leo Russomanno @len_1980]

It is a very serious thing to call for detention on the tertiary ground. You're asking a court to deny someone bail where they pose no substantial risk and yet you need to keep them in jail to preserve public confidence in the administration of justice.

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

This isn’t about the merits of the protest it’s just about abuse of state power: Easily managed without this. As a resident of Centretown in Ottawa, a long time @ClaOntario member and former president of the @The_DCAO I’m disappointed we aren’t speaking out as organizations

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

The use of the Emergencies Act in these circumstances is a serious problem. S.3 requires the emergency exceed the capacity or authority of a province or seriously threaten the ability of the government to preserve the security of the country. That test hasn’t been met.

[Dominic Lamb @dominiclamb]

@glen_mcgregor All of our charter jurisprudence on right to counsel etc upon arrest is largely parallel to and derived from the SCOTUS decision in Miranda v Arizona - and police always read an equivalent set of warnings to individuals placed under arrest