Comment on Charkaoui v Canada
Secret hearings to justify the issuance of security certificates and the detention of persons named in them, have been struck down. In an extraordinary, unanimous decision authored by the Chief...
Secret hearings to justify the issuance of security certificates and the detention of persons named in them, have been struck down. In an extraordinary, unanimous decision authored by the Chief...
The Supreme Court yesterday released decisions in 27 leave applications. Twenty-four of these were denied, with three granted. This closely matches the rate at which the Supreme Court has historically...
The rules governing hearsay evidence have seen a period of dramatic upheaval since 1990, when the SCC released its judgment in R v Khan, [1990] 2 SCR 531 [Khan]. Prior to that...
The Supreme Court’s docket includes hearings today and tomorrow. In today’s case, Dunne v Quebec (Deputy Minister of Revenue), Mr. Dunne, a resident of Ontario who has never lived or...