Hawkes and the Ever-Present Debate over Legal Aid
Recent events have made plain the politically charged nature of the debate in Canada over the provision of legal aid. In Ontario, the McGuinty government’s proposed Bill 107, which called...
Recent events have made plain the politically charged nature of the debate in Canada over the provision of legal aid. In Ontario, the McGuinty government’s proposed Bill 107, which called...
On June 7, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) rendered a rather puzzling decision in R v Teskey, [2007] 2 SCR 267, a case involving a trial judge’s eleven...
As a student in a first-year Constitutional Law class, we learn that there is typically a low threshold for what constitutes “expression” in s. 2(b) Charter jurisprudence. In a case...
On Thursday, June 28, 2007 a significant judgment for the tobacco industry was released by the Supreme Court of Canada. Canada (Attorney General) v JTI-Macdonald Corporation, [2007] 2 SCR 610 [JTI-Macdonald], an...