On Friday, the Supreme Court released judgment in the malicious prosecution case Miazga v. Kvello Estate, 2009 SCC 51, long-awaited by the parties involved as final resolution to the bizarre and heartbreaking judicial saga once termed Saskatchewan’s “Scandal of the Century”. The decision is also much-anticipated by my fellow editors at TheCourt.ca, who have previously [...]

On February 7, 2008, the SCC granted leave to appeal to Matt Miazga from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal’s finding of liability for the tort of malicious in the decision Miazga v. Kvello Estate, 2007 SKCA 57. The SCC correspondingly dismissed the application for leave to appeal the decision in the same case which set [...]

With the acquittal of Steven Truscott, the integrity of Canada’s criminal justice system has once again come under heavy fire. If readers’ comments here at The Court are any indication, many Canadians are not only deeply concerned with the plight of the falsely accused, but share a waning belief in the existence of effective criminal [...]