Criminal
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October 21, 2024
Cybersecurity recovery costs for businesses soared to $1.2B in 2023 despite fewer incidents
Canadian businesses spent approximately $1.2 billion on recovery from cybersecurity incidents in 2023, up from approximately $600 million in 2021, despite a decline in the proportion of Canadian businesses impacted by such incidents, according to Statistics Canada's Canadian Survey of Cyber Security and Cybercrime (CSCSC).
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October 21, 2024
Overturning wrongful convictions | John L. Hill
Let’s face it. Fighting wrongful convictions is hard. Attending the 10th Annual International Wrongful Conviction Day in Toronto in early October was inspiring. Many exonerees were piped into the auditorium. It was easy to think that finding and helping the wrongly convicted is an easy or usual task. Our assumption that our criminal justice system works perfectly blurs the fact that injustice happens more frequently than we dare to admit.
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October 21, 2024
Rape exemptions to abortion bans don’t work: Legal conundrums | Abby Hafer
In my recent articles on why rape exemptions to abortion bans don’t work, I have covered many of the real-world problems that show how these seemingly kindly exemptions are in reality ugly and meaningless.
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October 18, 2024
SCC rules driving bans not available for sentencing criminal negligence causing death or bodily harm
In a ruling that may impact an unknown number of existing and expired driving prohibitions, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 5-4 that since Criminal Code changes (Bill C-46) went into effect on Dec. 18, 2018, sentencing judges no longer had the discretion to impose driving bans for the offences of criminal negligence causing death or bodily harm.
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October 18, 2024
6 new Indigenous justice centres opening in British Columbia
The BC First Nations Justice Council (BCFNJC) has announced that six new Indigenous Justice Centres (IJCs) will be opening up in the province by December 2024, saying this would allow more Indigenous people to have access to free and culturally safe legal services.
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October 18, 2024
Canada amends enforcement regime to combat sanctions evasion
On Aug. 19, 2024, amendments to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) and related regulations came into force.
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October 18, 2024
SENTENCING - Causing death by criminal negligence - Causing bodily harm by criminal negligence - Prohibition orders - Motor vehicle
Appeal by Wolfe from a judgment of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan which upheld his sentence. Wolfe was convicted of criminal negligence causing death and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. He was sentenced to three concurrent terms of incarceration with a global term of six years. The trial judge also imposed 10-year driving prohibitions on the criminal negligence causing death counts and a seven-year driving prohibition criminal negligence causing bodily harm count. With the adoption of Bill C-46, driving-specific offences were reorganized into a new part of the Criminal Code (Code).
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October 18, 2024
2 new judges appointed to Ontario Court of Justice
The Ontario government announced the appointment of Christopher Chorney and Christa Reccord as judges to the provincial Court of Justice, an Oct. 15 news release announced.
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October 18, 2024
Conviction upheld despite Charter breaches
The Toronto Police Service arrested 27-year-old Shamar Brown while executing a search warrant in a Bowmanville residence on June 12, 2020. Officers found Brown carrying a handgun. The police advised him of his right to counsel. He asked to speak to a lawyer.
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October 18, 2024
SCC defines threshold for government liability in Charter infringement claim
On July 19, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) delivered its judgment in Canada (Attorney General) v. Power 2024 SCC 26 (Power), addressing a claim of damages against the federal government for enacting legislation that contravened the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter).