Criminal
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December 09, 2024
N.B. top court reinstates guilty verdict in impaired driving case
New Brunswick’s High Court has reinstated a man’s impaired driving conviction after it was found the trial judge was right to convict him — despite his rights being violated during talks with police about contacting a lawyer.
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December 09, 2024
Judicial appointment announced for Ontario
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani announced the appointment of Gordon J. Cudjoe as a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Brampton, a Dec. 6 news release announced.
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December 09, 2024
Violence in Ontario families: I smell gasoline | Michael Cochrane
In my previous column, Violence in Ontario families: Something is off, I looked at the astonishing multi-billion-dollar investment Canadian taxpayers are making to deal with the consequences of domestic violence. It is frankly and sadly a growth industry.
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December 09, 2024
Dogs as weapons
In a recently decided case, the Manitoba Court of Appeal upheld a conviction of a woman for assault with a weapon (R. v. Park, 2924 MBCA 93). The weapon was her dog, a six-year-old American pit bull that Park has trained as her pet. The court accepted a victim’s evidence that Park had told the dog to “sic ’em,” and this resulted in bites and injuries to two individuals.
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December 06, 2024
No Charter breach when police warrantlessly searched text messages in ‘exigent circumstances’: SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed 6-3 an Ontario man’s appeal of his drug trafficking convictions, holding that his Charter rights were not breached because “exigent circumstances” justified police, without a warrant, using a cellphone they seized from a drug dealer to impersonate that dealer and continue his texting with the accused to arrange what police suspected to be a purchase of fentanyl-laced heroin.
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December 06, 2024
Alberta court certifies class action against Canada over alleged sexual abuse by military priest
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has certified a class action against the federal government relating to alleged child sexual abuse said to be caused by a military priest at an Edmonton army base.
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December 06, 2024
A funny thing happened on the way to the morgue | Marcel Strigberger
You only die twice. No this is not a title for a James Bond movie. I’m talking about people being misdiagnosed as being dead when in fact they are still alive. Do they have any legal recourse?
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December 06, 2024
150 advocacy groups call for Ontario government to move on intimate-partner violence bill
Over 100 advocacy groups from across Ontario are calling on the provincial government to pass a private members’ bill that would declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.
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December 06, 2024
POWERS OF SEARCH AND SEIZURE - Warrantless searches - Computer or digital device - Reasonable expectation of privacy
Appeal by Campbell from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal which upheld his convictions and sentence. During the arrest of Gammie, a known drug dealer, the police seized a cellphone which was displaying incoming text messages on its screen. The police believed the messages revealed that a transaction for the sale of heroin, likely to be laced with fentanyl, was underway.
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December 06, 2024
Transferred intent comes under consideration in pit bull assault decision
The Manitoba Court of Appeal upheld convictions for a woman found guilty of assaulting two people with a weapon. The weapon was her pet bulldog (R. v. Park, 2024 MBCA 93).