In RS v PR, the Supreme Court of Canada clarified the conditions for international lis pendens under the Civil Code of Quebec, as well as the scope of discretion to deny a stay even when the conditions are met.
R v RV, 2019 ONCA 664 [RV], a recent appellate decision, discusses the complicated question of how courts should respond when a jury delivers inconsistent verdicts. The Crown, dissatisfied with...
When someone’s Charter rights are breached, s. 24(1) of the Charter provides that a court can issue a remedy to the individual for the breach. In criminal cases, the remedies...
Author’s Note: A previous article for TheCourt.ca analyzes the decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal, here. While immigration detention continues to get a lot of scrutiny in the American...
The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) recently granted leave to appeal in the Sherman Estate’s legal battle to keep its probate application private. The appeal will provide the court with...
In May of this year, thirty years will have passed since R v Sparrow, [1990] 1 SCR 1075 [Sparrow] was released. Sparrow was the first decision to apply section 35 of...
On January 16, a reference panel of Supreme Court Justices dismissed the appeal of the British Columbia Court of Appeal’s (“BCCA”) decision in Reference re Environmental Management Act, 2019 BCCA...
English and French language disputes have been a reoccurring feature of Canadian history and Canadian law. The most high-profile of these in Canadian law have tended to be constitutional challenges...
In the wake of any landmark jurisprudence there follows a tide of cases seeking to apply the principles of the original case to novel fact situations. And so in the...
The Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (“NFL”) in the United States, is watched by around 100 million viewers every year. For over 40 years, the...
In RS v PR, the Supreme Court of Canada clarified the conditions for international lis pendens under the Civil Code of Quebec, as well as the scope of discretion to deny a stay even when the conditions are met.
R v RV, 2019 ONCA 664 [RV], a recent appellate decision, discusses the complicated question of how courts should respond when a jury delivers inconsistent verdicts. The Crown, dissatisfied with...
When someone’s Charter rights are breached, s. 24(1) of the Charter provides that a court can issue a remedy to the individual for the breach. In criminal cases, the remedies...
Author’s Note: A previous article for TheCourt.ca analyzes the decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal, here. While immigration detention continues to get a lot of scrutiny in the American...
