 | Simon ShieldsOnline Lawyer / Isthatlegal.ca Author |  |
The original goal of this site was to provide low-income and otherwise under-serviced Ontario citizens with thorough, accessible legal information that they could use to manage their own legal situations. Over time a second purpose evolved as high internet traffic offered a chance to shift my law practice entirely on-line, thus facilitating world travel. It's been ten months now since I sold off all my stuff, boarded out my beloved cats, gave up the old Toronto apartment and took Isthatlegal.ca wholly on the road. Life on the road isn't all it's cracked up to be, but luckily it is most of what it is cracked up to be. Travels so far have taken me to Rarotonga, New Zealand and Tasmania for about three months each. I've been in Malaysia for a while now and quite like it. I laid up on the west coast of peninsular Malaysia for two months to get the basic Consumer Law (Ontario) Guide work done and posted. Now I am bicycling around the peninsula slowly taking a bit of a work break. I will continue to add Consumer Law chapters on individual economic sectors, of which there are many, but I think you can expect that to continue for a year and more. It is turning out to be a huge topic, branching from mainstay areas such as the Consumer Protection Act into numerous separately-regulated areas such as cars, travel, loans and much much more - which makes the task more interesting and ultimately more fruitful. I may make this my last 'practice area' Legal Guide, focussing afterwards on updating only, and then maybe some general political-legal-social reform writing. Simon Shields 22 June 2010 Batu Pahat, Malaysia |
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