R. v. Devine The Principled Exception to the Hearsay Rule Applied
The Supreme Court’s decision last week in R. v. Devine, 2008 SCC 36, is fairly simple, a straightforward application of existing caselaw to an unresolved issue of the rule of...
Monthly Archive: June 2008
Québec v. Proprio Direct Inc.: Administrative Law in the Post-Dunsmuir Era
The Supreme Court’s decision last March in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9 was widely recognized as a watershed event in Supreme Court jurisprudence. Indeed, even for those not...
Undoing W.(D.)
Sexual assault cases are often very difficult to resolve, particularly those in which the victim is a minor and the offender is a close adult family member. The difficulty arises...
Stein v. Stein and the Apportionment of Tax Liability among Divcorced Partners, PART II
As promised, this is an analysis of the dissenting reasons by Abella J. in Stein v. Stein, 2008 SCC 35. The facts of the case can be found here as...
