Simon's Legal Resources

Welcome to Simon's Legal Resources (Isthatlegal)

This website provides useful and in-depth legal insight to Ontario residents for both Ontario and federal law. Non-Ontario Canadians may find it useful for it's federal content.

While the website is useful for litigants and legal professionals, it's equal purpose is to enable us all to actively know our law. Democracy has but one essential purpose and that is for us all - together - to make the law that we live under, and to live peaceably under it. A prerequisite for stewarding our current body of law through ever-present social change is for any citizen to actually know it at any given point in time - or at least to have the ability to know it without undue difficulty or delay. That in turn requires that law be as efficiently presented for citizen-access as possible, and that we spare ourselves the atomization of our present legal systems through multi-tribunalization and the corresponding atomization of legal knowledge.

While I am one of the sharpest critics of our existing representative democratic systems, and blame much of their demise on their own treatment of governance as 'just-another' service delivery with all it's citizen-disempowering obsessions, we now face an unparalleled crisis from the rise of authoritarianism, shallow self-interests and simple fear.

My contribution to solving this democratic/legal crisis continues to be to make law accessible to us all - in as clear, concise and practical a fashion as I can - this so that democracy and law do not fall into anachronistic disregard.

But I need help - see Help Isthatlegal Grow.

And it's obvious that we need more than that. Got ideas about saving democracy? Let's talk.

Simon Shields
simonshields@isthatlegal.ca
28 September 2026

ps. I don't use phones due to a speech impediment.