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.

While I am one of the sharpest critics of our existing representative democratic systems, and blame much of their demise on their own centralizing and citizen-disempowering obsessions, we now face an unparalleled crisis from authoritarianism and shallow self-interests.

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
10 August 2026

ps. I am not presently taking any new clients, and will not answer any emails seeking legal advice - even if it's for 'simple questions', sorry.

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