Rasouli’s consent required to withdraw life support, SCC rules
Mr. Rasouli has been in a persistent vegetative state at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (“Sunnybrook”) since October 2010. For the past three years, he has been kept alive by way...
Monthly Archive: October 2013
The Tax Court of Canada Green-lights CRA Use of Improperly Obtained Evidence in Piersanti v. The Queen
The Tax Court of Canada has held in Piersanti v. The Queen, 2013 TCC 226 [Piersanti] that information that may have been seized unlawfully during the course of a criminal...
The Ontario Court of Appeal Clarifies Rules for the Division of Property in Buttar v. Buttar
On its face, the Family Law Act, R.S.O. 1990 (“FLA“) appears to set down a fairly clear rule for the division of property in a divorce. The net family property...
R v Brownson: The Interests of Justice, Prejudice, and Amending an Information
In R v Brownson, 2013 ONCA 619 [Brownson], a decision released by the Ontario Court of Appeal on October 15, 2013, the court considered the appropriateness of allowing the Crown...
