Articles

The Quebec Court of Appeal recently released its ruling in R. c. Perry et al. Brock Jones discusses the Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the 2007 Criminal Code amendments that eliminated conditional sentences for “serious personal injury offences.”

Joseph Hanna discusses the recent Supreme Court case of R. v. Ryan in greater detail with a focus on how the court clarified the common law and statutory defences of duress.

In this issue, Elham Jamshidi provides a review of R. v. Handy and the law in relation to similar fact evidence.

In Part II of his review of the law, Prasanna Balasundaram hones in on a recent judgement from the Ontario Court of Appeal that goes into some detail with respect to the breakdown of sentencing for an offender where multiple counts are involves and where there is a risk of deportation. 

Brock Jones outlines a new case that extends the protections of spousal privilege to common-law couples in keeping with the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Québec (Attorney General) v. A. Is the Crown attempting to subpoena your client’s common law wife to give evidence?

This is a seminal study of the law of “other suspects”. Mr. Robin Flumerfelt, a senior trial and appellate Crown attorney, looks at the issue from a Crown and defence perspective.

Senior defence counsel Paul Calarco continues his review of the appeal courts’ most recent decisions.

Struggling to find time to read recent Supreme Court of Canada judgments? Vincenzo Rondinelli has condensed the latest SCC judgments to bite-sized consumption – 6 words to be exact – to keep you up to date.

Lori Anne Thomas gives us a primer on what to do and say when you get that bread and butter call for assistance in the dark hours of the night. She has supplied us with caselaw and humour and her suggestions are concise enough for you to keep this article on hand for quick reference.

In Part I of his review of the law, Prasanna Balasundaram takes us through a review of the issues a criminal lawyer should be aware of when engaging a retainer from a client that may have status issues with Immigration Canada.