User:Singularity42



Who am I: an infinitely dense point in space that may have something to do with Life, the Universe and Everything...

Who am I (alternatively): someone trying to avoid work, by editing Wikipedia on a regular basis from 2007-2014, an administrator for English Wikpedia from 2013-2014, and infrequent editing since. I have a degree in astrophysics, a degree in law, and I am a practising lawyer (however nothing I write about should ever be considered legal advice).

My interests:

1) Canadian law (mostly criminal and constitutional)

2) Politics (mostly Canadian)

3) Math and Physics

4) Sci-fi and fantasy

5) Television, films, and other entertainment media

Most of my extensive work in Wikipedia is improving and maintaining articles on Canadian criminal and constitutional law. I am currently a member of WikiProject Canadian law, WikiProject Canada, and WikiProject Law. I also spend some time patrolling new pages (both in the main article space and in userspace).

Current articles being worked on

 * Jury (Canada) - userpage draft started at User:Singularity42/Jury (Canada); will start filling it in over the summer. Update 2013: Was finding the sourcing too difficult for this article. I've moved on to other projects, but may come back to it later.

Articles I plan on improving

 * Youth Criminal Justice Act
 * Various Supreme Court of Canada cases. Details of this project can be found at User:Singularity42/Supreme Court of Canada cases
 * This is probably my main ongoing project for 2013 and 2014 (and depending on how complicated it gets, maybe even into 2015), and I have taken a different path then my original plan above (which started to become an exercise in frustration). The ultimate goal is to have a comprehensive list of SCC cases, and to identify which articles need to be created.  If you would like to help, please let me know.  Early steps can be found here: User:Singularity42/List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Richards Court through Fauteux Court).

Articles I plan on creating

 * Fitness to stand for trial

Major articles I have created

 * Bail (Canada)
 * Drunk driving (Canada)
 * Criminal sentencing in Canada
 * R. v. Grant
 * Miazga v. Kvello Estate
 * R. v. Harrison
 * R. v. Suberu
 * R. v. J.A.
 * Doré v. Barreau du Québec
 * R. v. Tse

Articles I have substantially expanded from a stub

 * R. v. Swain
 * R. v. Sinclair
 * R. v. Bartle
 * Canada (House of Commons) v. Vaid