March 9th, 2010
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court denied leave to appeal in Slahi v. Canada (Justice), 2009 FCA 259, first canvassed on TheCourt.ca by Padraic Ryan here. My post aims to briefly examine the international law aspects of the case and their relation to the Charter. Slahi affirms the recent line of jurisprudence (culminating in Canada [...]
February 8th, 2010
On January 27, 2010, the UK Supreme Court struck down two UK Orders in Council that formed the entirety of the country’s terror financing and asset-freezing law (Her Majesty’s Treasury v. Mohammed Jabar Ahmed and others; Mohammed al-Ghabra; Hani El Sayed Sabaei Youssef ([2010] UKSC 2 & [2010] UKSC 5). The Court held the laws [...]
February 1st, 2010
The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Canada (Prime Minister) v. Khadr (2010 SCC 3) on Friday, which may have prompted a call to Omar Khadr from his lawyers telling him, “So close, and yet so far…” TheCourt.ca covered Khadr’s case back in September 2009, before it was argued at the Supreme Court. (See [...]
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