Ontario Court of Appeal Holding on Spousal Incompetency Now Moot: R v Nguyen
The recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in R v Nguyen, 2015 ONCA 278 [Nguyen] on the spousal incompetency rule has now been rendered largely moot as a...
Author: Mary Thibodeau
Defining the Mental State for Infanticide: R v Borowiec
The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) recently heard the Crown appeal of R v Borowiec, 2015 ABCA 232 (“R v MB”). The case is significant given the possibility for a...
The Expansion of “Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds”: Kanthasamy v Canada
The recent Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) decision in Jeyakannan Kanthasamy v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 SCC 61 [Kanthasamy] is an exciting and welcome development in immigration...
R v Lloyd: BC Court of Appeal Declines to Declare Minimum Sentencing Legislation Invalid
At issue in R v Lloyd, 2014 BCCA 224 was whether section 5(3)(a)(i)(D) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, SC 1996, c 19 [CDSA] amounted to cruel and unusual...
