Beautiful Autumn Wedding

Big Lady Justice's Best friend Julie got married yesterday at LaSalle Park, Burlington, Ontario.

                                           A Beautiful Wedding! A fantastic celebration!!

Ryan  - this little fellow stole the show a few times

Ryan, trying to run away

Big Lady Justice & Dave

Newlyweds Julie & Tares

Julie's brother Tyler and mother Diane

Beautiful Flower Girls

Minister with Julie & Tares

Paul & Lorraine

Father of the Bride Bill & Julie

Julie & Flower Girls

Julie's Beautiful Wedding Dress

Lorraine & Julie celebrating

Newly weds Tares & Julie

Wedding Party, Flower Girls and Ring Bearer looking on

Making it Official

Vince & Julie

Entering the Reception  

Devan and Devon

Alix and Krista

Julie and her Flower Girls & Bridesmaids

Autumn Leaves are falling!

Verdi's Masterpiece - the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass

In Remembrance
Come here the heavenly tones of Verdi's traditional Christian Rite Mass.
The sacred, recognizable tones and words of the Requiem Mass are set to Latin.
Verdi's Amen and Sanctus Fugues stirr the soul!
We've been practising Verdi's sacred score throughout the summer.

The Amen Fugue is the soundtrack to the dissolution of the Law Society's self-governance (http://bigmamajustice.blogspot.com/) The oppressive atmosphere of the Rex tremendae conveys the same sense of prejudice outlined in my human rights complaints to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario against the Law Society of Upper Canada and Zeynep Onen.

The Etobicoke Philharmonic will accompany the dynamic soloists and choir on Friday, November 11, 2011 at Kipling Collegiate Institute, 8:00pm - 380 The Westway - In Remembrance.

Guest Artists: Soprano Stacie Carmona,  Mezzo-soprano Emiliya Boteva, Tenor Romulo Delgado,  Bass Gary Relyea

Adult ticket price is $25.00.

Law Society of Upper Canada | Civility Complaints Protocol

Free Joe Groia -- the Debate that didn't Happen

http://groia-case.blogspot.com/

Law Society of Upper Canada Bencher Election 2011

Law Society Bencher Election 2011

The 2011 Bencher Election was considered a landslide victory for female representation.  Consider that not even half of elected Benchers are female (19 of 40 Benchers or 47.5% are female).  Sadly, the traditional institution engenders the male right of privilege which includes self-governance and self-regulation.
Is this ratio supposed to sound impressive  - 19/40? ?  When your son or daughter doesn't pass their math quiz and gets only 19/40 -- would you  be impressed and verklempt with pride?
 What is Joseph J. Sullivan doing to improve the profession?
What exactly does Joseph Sullivan do, to "continue to analyze and improve the governance of the profession by the Law Society"? 
What was he doing before he became a candidate? during the campaig and after?
Joseph Sullivan office didn't make a perfunctory effort to respond to my calls in the Spring 2011.

If one relies on Mr. Sullivan's candidate profile, then it would appear that Joseph Sullivan has no solutions  for problems with the LSUC's self-governance. In his bencher candidate profile, he identified himself as a "reform candidate".
Joseph Sullivan was elected by his Hamilton peers in April 2011.

James Scarfone appears to be worried about the woeful "dictates of bureaucratic mandarins"

Why didn't James Scarfone refer to bureaucrats by some other term ?

A mandarin was a bureaucrat in Imperial China.

Is there a reason James Scarfone  used a term "bureaucratic mandarin" that has cultural and historial significance to Imperial China?  what's on the mind of James Scarfone - scholar-officials from Imperial China? 

Perhaps  Scarfone's votes came from his peers in Hamilton, not necessarily members in Toronto, Markham, Richmond Hill, Brampton, etc.

In James Scarfone's candidate profile, he expresses his perspective on self-governance.

His candidate profile stated,

"Self-governance is a privilege to be jealously guarded and entrenched, never to be taken for granted. Losing it will cost us money out of our pockets, reduce the dignity and esteem that our profession maintains, and subject our practices to the dictates of bureaucratic mandarins. This means we need to ensure the public is protected. . ."

What solutions does James Scarfone have to improve self-governance?

How would independent government over-sight on the profession cost members more money? 

Doesn't James Scarfone realize that some ill-conceived initiatives cost members more money? Does he have any ideas into what that means? (e.g. Civility Complaints Protocols)

How will promoting the public interest (e.g. independent over-sight over specious proceedings) "reduce the dignity and esteem" of the profession? What is James Scarfone talking about?

What is James Scarfone's opinion of the profession's reputation  in Hamilton ?  (the community he practises in) Is his belief based on  public opinion polls? The LSUC's public opinion polls? These should be posted on the LSUC  website, if such LSUC public opinion polls truly exist.

Why should the public interest be subordinated to lawyers' interests?

Why should practising lawyers/Benchers and their firms (Gerald A. Swaye, Gerald A. Swaye & Associates Professional Corporation, Roger Yachetti, Yachetti, Lanza and Restivo, Joseph Sullivan, James Scarfone) be given a competitive edge over other competing lawyers in the Region? That does not promote the public interest, this competetitive edge in the market of legal services.

It would appear neither James Scarfone nor Joseph Sullivan have given much thought at all to the numerous problems of self-goverance.

A Walk thru historical rooms of a Male Privileged World

Yesterday, my best friend's baby sister Devon got married.
Devon radiated in her gorgeous wedding dress. She looked like a million bucks.
Glamorous, shining beauty.
Devon's new husband Trevor looked so proud, happy and handsome.
Although Big Lady Justice isn't well acquainted with Devon's new handsome husband, she knows he is a perfect match for Devon.
The bridesmaids' beautiful green dresses were perfect for a Spring weddding (although originally scheduled for August 2011)

Big Lady Justice arrived just before 10pm at the Scottish Rite, when folks were busy on the dance floor.

The Scottish Rite is a Castle. A relic of the prosperous tobacco company, Tuckett Tobacco Company, later acquired by Imperial Tobacco company. Hamilton's 27th mayor, George Tuckett, had his residence here.

Big Lady Justice & her friend Lorraine and another curious individual were very appreciative for the tour of the Castle, graciously given by a Free Mason. We were curious to walk through the beautiful, historical rooms of male privilege, the card rooms, the billiard rooms, the meeting rooms, the Mason's appear to indulge in recreation in style. The rich's man burden of maintaining his castle had its costs. I suspect Tuckett would've owed a lot of tax on his tobacco  to the federal government. Hamilton's former mayor Tuckett  afforded such extravagence owning his own tobacco company - carriages, billiards, castle staff, etc. 

The Scottish Rite purchased the Castle in 1920. Back in the day, where did the women sit, in this Castle? The walls contain portraits of men, presumably accomplished and civic minded for their day, but not one portrait of any women. How does Masonic membership appeal to modern men? I wonder why modern men would be interested in an expensive, antiquated, exclusive male-only club.

Will the Mason fraternity become a curious, historical footnote?

Will they become an extinct species, like the once wildly successful Tuckett tobacco empire? It's possible.