Articles

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

In this thoughtful analysis of the R.v.Telus case recently released from the Supreme Court, Brock Jones answers the question: What is the proper procedure under the Criminal Code for authorizing the prospective daily production of text messages from your telecommunications service provider?

Crystal Tomusiak writes a concise primer on how to expertly use the Rule in Browne v. Dunn in a criminal trial.

Think you can’t possibly catch up on the latest SCC judgments? Read Vincenzo Rondinelli’s 6 word summaries of the latest Supreme Court of Canada judgments.

Appellate counsel Paul Calarco reviews three recent cases from the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada in his April Appeal Court Review.

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.

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.

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?