CBC v Manitoba: Tying up a loose end
In Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v Manitoba, 2023 SCC 27 [CBC v Manitoba], the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or “the Court”) unanimously dismissed from the...
Sentencing Offenders with Disabilities | TheCourt.ca
Content Warning: The facts of this case involve the mention of serious violence and sexual assault. The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) has granted...
Sentencing Offenders with Disabilities | TheCourt.ca
For an overview of the judicial history of this case, please see the first installment of this contribution. In this second contribution, I focus on...
Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act to Reach SCC
On February 22, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”, or the “Court”) granted the Crown’s application for leave to appeal [40990] R v Wilson,...
APPEAL WATCH: Pepa v Canada, bound by obiter
The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) granted leave to appeal Pepa v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FCA 102 (“Pepa FCA”), a pithy (16 paragraph)...
APPEAL WATCH: R v Pan, a legally messy murder
The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) has granted leave to appeal the long and complex case of R v Pan 2023 ONCA 362 [Pan]. At...
Consequential Charter Breaches After R v Zacharias
In R v Zacharias, 2023 SCC 30 [Zacharias], a divided Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or the “Court”) held that evidence obtained through an unlawful...
Sweet Productions v Licensing IP International
The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) is set to hear an appeal out of the Federal Court of Appeal (“FCA”) on undue delay leading to...
Ewen: The judge-represented litigant – TheCourt.ca
The Federal Court of Appeal (the “FCA”) resolved an “unusual question” about the Federal Court’s jurisdiction to raise a substantive question not raised by the...
The Illegality of Sex Work in Canada
For an overview of the legislative and judicial history of the case, please see the first installment of this contribution. In this second contribution, I...