SCC Allows Appeal in Escalator Handrail Case
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) released its decision in Kosoian v Société de transport de Montréal, 2019 SCC 59 [Kosoian], a “bizarre decade-long legal case” involving a...
Category: Regulatory & Provincial Offences
Tempering R v Comeau : A Primer on the International Trade Debate (Part 2)
This is the second of a two-part post outlining the constitutional issues in R v Gerard Comeau, an interprovincial trade case to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada on...
Can Government Officials Rely on their Own Officially Induced Errors?
Can government officials rely on their own officially induced errors? The answer is no and for good reason. This topic was recently addressed by the Supreme Court in the case...
Models Needed: Reviewing Prostitution Laws Since Canada v. Bedford
Nearly three years after the Supreme Court (“the Court”) issued its ground-breaking judgment in Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, 2013 SCC 72 [Bedford] and two years since the federal government...
