R v Martin: Shedding Light on Screenshots as Electronic Evidence
You are scrolling on your phone, making your daily social media rounds. You see something you would like to share with a friend, so you take a screenshot. This has...
Monthly Archive: January 2021
R v Slatter: Victory or Missed Opportunity for Rights of Women with Intellectual Disabilities?
[Content warning: this article contains discussion of sexual violence against women with disabilities]. When hearing the appeal in R v Slatter, 2019 ONCA 807 [Slatter (ONCA)], the Supreme Court of...
R v Sullivan: SCC will hear constitutional challenge on the prohibition of the extreme intoxication defence
In December, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or “The Court”) granted the Crown leave to appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal’s (“ONCA”) ruling in R v Sullivan, 2020 ONCA...
Transnational Canadian Corporations Can Be Liable Under Customary International Law For Human Rights Abuses: The Phoenix Flies in Nevsun v Araya
Content warning: mention of slavery, torture, false confinement, murder, and rape Can Canadian courts adjudicate international human rights violations committed by Canadian companies abroad? Usually, the spectre of limited corporate...
