Articles 2023

The Alberta Court of Appeal has taken a significant step toward acknowledging what the Canadian government has steadfastly refused to accept – that Omar Khadr was a young person who was entitled to special protections for his rights under Canadian and international law from the beginning.

A "common sense" approach to the evidence of children in criminal proceedings has long been applied in our criminal courts. But what does this mean in practice when a child's testimony seems to contain inconsistencies? Three recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal – R v M.C. , R v M.O. and R v L.M. – address this complicated matter, with remarkably different results.

On March 5, 2014, the OBA hosted a successful dinner program called “Youth and the Law: A Spectrum of Issues, an Opportunity for Collaboration”.