R. v. Cunningham = old law
Last week my colleague Benjy Radcliffe commented on the Supreme Court’s decision in R. v. Cunningham (2010 SCC 10) as being one where the Court, “in considering the scope of...
Author: Ahsan Mirza
R v Morelli: Understanding Criminal Possession of Digital Property
In R v Morelli, 2010 SCC 8, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) was faced with a number of complex and intertwined legal issues. The child pornography case turned on the validity...
Official (and Unofficial) Supreme Court Statistics, 1999-2009
The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) recently released official statistics on its work in 2009 along with comparisons with the previous ten years: Bulletin of Proceedings: Special Edition, Statistics 1999...
Mandatory(?) Minimums: R v Nasogaluak
Friday’s equivocal Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) decision in R v Nasogaluak, 2010 SCC 6 [Nasogaluak], can be viewed both as upholding mandatory minimum sentences and as “a noteworthy chink in the previously...
