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• Selwyn Pieters has been appointed Co-counsel on R. v. Johnson Aziga, charged with 2 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of aggravated sexual assault. HIV/AIDS criminal litigation. See, Tamsyn Burgmann, Lawyers for HIV-positive man want murder charge thrown out, Canadian Press, Jun 11, 2008. Also Ministry to pay for HIV defence, Hamilton Spectator, January 26, 2008.
• Selwyn was quoted in various press on various matters on May 12, 2008: Black, Canadian and rooting for Obama
  Toronto Star, May 12, 2008 and disbarred lawyer Jonathan Strug - Lawyer strung clients along with phantom cases, By Robert Todd, Law Times, 12 May 2008
• Selwyn is providing representation to Oriel Varga one of the University of Toronto fourteen: Master's student earns top marks for dissent Globe and Mail, KATE HAMMER, 21 June 2008; U of T protesters banned from campus
  Macleans, April 29, 2008; André Bovee-Begun, Naushad Ali Husein "Protestors barred from U of T - Police arrest sit-in demonstrators following admin complaints" The Varsity, April 29, 2008; U of T students claim vendetta
  Toronto Sun, April 30, 2008; 14 charged after U of T protest
  Toronto Star, April 30, 2008.
• Toronto (Don) Jail Racism has reared its ugly head again. I have been writing about the Jail since 1996. Not much has changed. In any event, for a flavor for the toxic evvironment see decision in the Charlton v. Ontario (Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services) 2007 CarswellOnt 4099. See also, Breach of a contractual provision creating expectation of a psychological benefit entitles employee to damages, tribunal rules September 19, 2007; "Harassed jailer awarded $20Gs" Toronto Sun, June 29, 2007 and Letter was 'vicious and hateful', Toronto Star, June 29, 2007; ANTHONY REINHART's The Festering Problem of Racism, Globe and Mail, January 17, 2008; Royson James, Enough – stop campaign of racism, Toroto Star, January 18, 2008; Sarah Green, Stone walls, racial hatred, TorontoSun.com February 03, 2008.
• The Boxing Day shooting (Project Green Apple) preliminary inquiry has now been completed and Mr. Justice Lipson has committed all of the adults to trial: Jeremiah Valentine will face trial on a second-degree murder charge, plus five counts of attempted murder. Tyshaun Barnett (SIDO) and Louis Woodcock (BIG GUY) manslaughter and six counts of attempted murder. Andrew Smith, Andre Thompson, Shaun Thompson and Vincent Davis — were committed to trial on manslaughter.I am providing representation to Richard Steele.
•  K.B. and T.M. v. Toronto District School Board, has now been completed with the Judgment of Madam Justice Swinton dismissing the judicial review. This case has generated quite a bit of litigation, see also, K. B. and T. M. v. Toronto District School Board et al. (May 03, 2006, Chapnick J., Div. Ct).
• Currently providing representation in two human rights tribunal matters: HR-1378-07 JA v. Toronto District School Board et al. (disabiity and sexual orientation) and HR-1405/06-07 KF v. Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board. Publication ban is in place on the names: K.F. v. Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board et al, 2008 HRTO 6 (CanLII)
• TVO Program Inner City Youth and October 29 2007: Can Governments Beat Crime?
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