The SCC Grants Leave to Appeal in R. v. Caron
On August 27th, the SCC granted the Alberta government leave to appeal in R. v. Caron, 2009 ABCA 34. Chief Justice McLachlin, Justice Abella and Justice Rothstein granted the leave application without...
View ArticleInterim Costs Orders to be Revisited by Supreme Court in Alberta Language...
On Wednesday, TheCourt.ca published a student post on the Supreme Court’s decision to grant leave to appeal to R. v. Caron. Today we publish a second piece on Caron, which was intended to be published...
View ArticleImpulsive Judgment?: An Alternative View of the “Secret” G20 Policing Law
Last weekend, both violent and peaceful political protestors gathered on the streets of Toronto to voice concerns surrounding the G20 World Leader’s Summit. Smashed windows, police cars ablaze and...
View ArticleAmici Curiae: Anti-Bullying & Bill 13, SlutWalk’s Second Year, and the Dewey...
Unholy Alliances? Gay-Straight Clubs, Catholic Opposition and Ontario’s Anti-Bullying Bill 13 The Canadian media has been awash with reports of support and opposition since the Ontario Minister of...
View ArticleR v Brownson: The Interests of Justice, Prejudice, and Amending an Information
In R v Brownson, 2013 ONCA 619 [Brownson], a decision released by the Ontario Court of Appeal on October 15, 2013, the court considered the appropriateness of allowing the Crown to amend an information...
View ArticleRasouli’s consent required to withdraw life support, SCC rules
Mr. Rasouli has been in a persistent vegetative state at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (“Sunnybrook”) since October 2010. For the past three years, he has been kept alive by way of mechanical...
View ArticleGyorffy v Drury: Big Win or Big Chill for Plaintiffs?
Writing for the Ontario Court of Appeal (“ONCA”) in Gyorffy v Drury, 2015 ONCA 31, Justice Laskin upheld an award of non-pecuniary damages for injuries arising from a motor vehicle accident (“MVA”)....
View ArticleCar Phones to Cell Phones – Have the Times Really Changed?
How cell phones have changed in the last thirty years – though back then, they were “cellular telephones.” I remember the scene in John Hughes’ film, Sixteen Candles where the Geek, played by Anthony...
View ArticleATCO Gas and Pipelines Ltd v Alberta: Why You Are Paying More on Your...
In December of 2013, a damning Ontario Auditor General report zeroed in on Ontario Power Generator (“OPG”) and its executive compensation packages. The report accused OPG of unnecessarily driving up...
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