KAREN SELICK
Karen Selick is a well known Belleville Family Lawyer with the firm Reynolds O'Brien LLP
ADDRESS: 183 Front Street, Belleville, Ont. K8N-5J1
Tel: 613-966-3031 Fax: 613-966-2390 Email kas@karenselick.com
NOTE: Karen does NOT read email attachments sent by strangers. If you need to contact Karen Selick urgently do not rely on email, use the telephone and or fax.
Visit her Web Site at http://www.KarenSelick.com
On April 28, 1998 Karen Selick was a witness before the Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
Articles available at her web site are:
(if these links do not work please email or call us)
http://www.OttawaMensCentre.com/news/19980428karen_selick_bias
Reprints from Canadian Lawyer Magazine
- Mandatory Insurance: Ensuring Confusion & Waste (Oct. 03)
- Karen to God: Come In, Please (Nov. 03)
- Help a Hero Help You (January, 2004)
- Self-Government, Not Democracy, Empowers the People (Feb. 04)
- Hypocrisy at Health Canada (March, 2004)
- What If Snake Oil Really Isn't? (April, 2004)
Family Law
- The Wages of Living in Sin (Aug. 93)
- Thrifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (April 94)
- The Playing Field Is Not Tilted (and Other Musings)(Sept. 94)
- Child Support--The View from Mars (July 96)
- Support Ruling No Victory for Same-Sex Couple (Dec. 96)
- Flavour of the Month: Easy-bake Regulations (Feb. 97)
- Spousal Support--Heads She Wins, Tails He Loses (Nov. 97)
- Spousal Support--Time to Consider Misconduct (Jan. 98)
- A Textbook Example of Deep Pocket Justice (May 98)
- Child Support Guidelines--A Presentation to the Senate Committee
- Child Support Guidelines--Written Brief to the Senate Committee
- The Supreme Cop-Out (April, 1999)
- Couples Deserve Grandfathering (Aug. 2000)
- The Guidelines, Myth and FACT (Jan. 2001)
- Rubbing Salt into Divorce's Wounds (Jan. 2003)
- Those Shameful Guidelines (Apr. 03)
Bizarre Court Decisions
- Spells, Sophistry & Sacred Cows (Feb. 93)
- A Law for the Imprudent (July 95)
- A Bad Week, Taxpayers? Tough Luck! (Mar. 96)
- A Textbook Example of Deep Pocket Justice (May 98)
- The Indignity of It All (Sept. '00)
- First Through the Floodgates (Feb. 03)
Poverty and Welfare
- If the Poor Don't Care, Why Should We?(Sept. 90)
- Friendly Fire Kills Poor in Poverty War (May 91)
- The Smokescreen of Poverty (May 92)
- Charity by Any Other Name (Mar. 93)
- Mired in Poverty? No, Mired in Poor Statistics (Dec.94)
- Children : The New Excuse for Everything (Dec. 95)
- A Bad Week, Taxpayers? Tough Luck (Mar. 96)
- Child Poverty: You Get What You Pay For (July 97)
- Ontario's Workfare Farce (Oct. 97)
- A Very "Poor" Idea (Jul 98)
- Instead of the Nanny State (July, 1999)
- More Nails in Free Speech Coffin (Oct. 00)
Lawyers Courts and Judges
- Prepaid Legal Plans: Boon or Boondoggle? (Apr. 91)
- The Myths of Affirmative Action for the Bench (June 91)
- Court Delays? Call in the Economists (Mar. 92)
- Polarized, yes--But Not by Our Plumbing (Dec. 93)
- Articling Jobs, Jobs, Jobs (Feb. 94)
- Rent-a-Judge: Maybe They'd Try Harder (Mar. 94)
- The CBA Is Apolitical...Not! (Feb. 95)
- The Latest Taboos (Nov. 95)
- Fully Informed Juries: A Check on State Power (Feb. 96)
- Barricading the Guild Door (May 96)
- Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere (Jul 96)
- A Modest Proposal for Judicial Independence (Mar. 97)
- Uncle CBA Wants YOU! (Sept. 97)
- How About Real Diversity at the Supreme Court? (August, 1999)
- Judges Make Justice Unaffordable (October, 1999)
- Who Will Judge the Judges? (November, 1999)
- Nothing Personal, But... (January, 2000)
- Why Judges Don't Deserve a Raise (January, 2000)
- Methinks the Lady Doth Protest Too Much (February, 2000)
- If the Joke Fits.... (June 01)
- New! Improved! 140% More Verbiage (June 03)
- The Paralegal Puzzle (July 03)
- Horror Story, Not How-To Manual (Sept. 03)
Gender Issues
- Stop the Lunacy (June '90)
- The Myths of Affirmative Action for the Bench (June 91)
- Sexual Harassment: The Witch Hunt (June 92)
- She's Too Heavy , She's a Mother (Nov. 92)
- Why Should Law Firms Subsidize Moms? (Jul 93)
- Polarized, yes--But Not by Our Plumbing (Dec. 93)
- Brave New Work: Fair New World (Mar. 95)
- Premier Harris: Take the Pay Equity Challenge (Feb. 98)
- A Serious Case of Obiter Dictarrhea (Aug 98)
- Pay Equity: Nonsense Upons Stilts (Jul 98)
- Why Are We Subsidizing Child Production? (Jan. 01)
- "Mirror" Remark Reflects Poorly on Governor General (Mar. 03)
Gay Issues
- The Playing Field Is Not Tilted (and Other Musings) (Sept. 94)
- The Right to Be Equal Under Arbitrary Laws (June 96)
- Support Ruling No Victory for Same-Sex Couple (Dec. 96)
- Human Rights Ruling Endangers All (Apr. 98)
- Privilege to Some, Equality to None (Apr. 98)
- The Spouse Trap (May, 1999)
- You Don't Own Me (May, 2000)
- Unmarried Gay Couples--Beware! (Oct. 02)
- Same-Sex Alert--Too Much Dignity Is a Dangerous Thing (June 03)
Visit Karen Selick's Home Page http://www.karenselick.com/
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