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    Wednesday, August 31, 2005

    Lawyer Wins Lower Case

    ik - An excerpt from an inane story from CTV News. I think -

    Canada's Divorce Act allows for a no-fault divorce after a one-year separation, on grounds of marital breakdown. It also allows for an immediate divorce if there is admitted or proven adultery or cruelty.

    But Garson refused to grant an immediate divorce -- because the definition of adultery in common law didn't include homosexual relations.

    The judge told the woman last Friday that she would hear the case again if a lawyer could argue why the legal definition of adultery should be broadened to include same-sex adultery.

    The woman's lawyer, barbara findlay (who spells her name in lower-case letters), argued that the traditional definition of adultery is as outdated as the original common-law definition of marriage, which was based on procreation.

    ik again - to celebrate, i will now be known as ian kenney (who spells his name in lower case letters).

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