Betsy Powell

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

Kadeem Nedrick was accepted into a domestic abuse program after he was charged with assaulting the mother of his son. Successful completion would mean his outstanding charges would be withdrawn and he would enter into a peace bond. But in early 2022, with three sessions left, he stabbed Brittany Doff to death in her apartment in Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood. Her friend found the 30-year-old lying in a pool of blood, with stab wounds in her chest.

4 weeks ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

A growing number of legal community voices are urging the Law Society of Ontario to release a retired judge’s report on former CEO Diana Miles’s controversial salary increase and sudden departure earlier this month. In an open letter released Thursday, nine current and one ex-officio directors of the LSO’s governing board called for the “immediate full public disclosure” of former associate chief justice Dennis O’Connor’s report on her contract and the process by which it was negotiated.

1 month ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

In a withering cross-examination, a Crown attorney told the defendant that even if he wasn’t driving his 30-foot speedboat when it crashed on rocks along the Lake Ontario shoreline, killing two, he was still criminally negligent for handing the wheel over to someone who had been drinking — a man Filip Grkovski said he’d already told to slow down because he was going too fast.

1 month ago | thespec.com | Betsy Powell

Two women aboard a powerboat that crashed in Lake Ontario almost three years ago described in court Wednesday how, after hours of partying in a multi-vessel “tie up,” their boat headed back to shore and accelerated “really, really fast” before flipping over near a rock wall in front of Tommy Thompson Park. The women were testifying at the trial of Filip Grkovski, 41, alleged to be the driver of the boat on May 31, 2022.

1 month ago | hamiltonnews.com | Betsy Powell

At 12, she was bursting with talent and creativity, winning cooking and dance contests and filling journals as an aspiring writer. She also planned to launch a baby-sitting business with her cousin, also 12. Her family had welcomed the boy into their Scarborough apartment after his father died overseas. The eldest of four, the girl called him her “brother” — which is why what happened on Sept. 5, 2023, is so shocking and inexplicable.