Beneath the Law

← Beneath the Law18 aug · 28 min

Five Days, One Cat, and the Cost of Canadian Justice

Five Days, One Cat, and the Cost of Canadian Justice18 aug28 min

Send us Fan Mail When a family breaks down, who gets the cat? That deceptively simple question drove four to five days of Superior Court litigation in Ontario…all funded by Canadian taxpayers, in what hosts Gavin Tighe and Stephen Thiele call one of the most revealing windows into the mounting crisis of judicial resource allocation in Canada. This episode dives into the Ontario family law case of Harold, a barn-cat-turned-courtroom-combatant whose ownership became the final flashp...