The US Supreme Court Limits the Scope of Honest Services Fraud
Honest services fraud, pursuant to section 1346 of Title 18 – Crimes and Criminal Procedure, 63 U.S.C., is mail or wire fraud occurring within “a scheme or artifice to deprive...
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R. v. Legare: Erect Fences, Don’t Tear Them Down
The Supreme Court of Canada has recently announced it will hear Craig Bartholomew Legare v. Her Majesty the Queen on October 15, a week from today. The case concerns a...
R. v. Jaw and the Trouble with Close Reading Jury Instructions
Last Friday, the Supreme Court delivered its ruling in R. v. Jaw, 2009 SCC 42, the second in so many months considering the potentially prejudicial effects of erroneous jury instructions. The...
Interim Costs Orders to be Revisited by Supreme Court in Alberta Language Rights Case
On Wednesday, TheCourt.ca published a student post on the Supreme Court’s decision to grant leave to appeal to R. v. Caron. Today we publish a second piece on Caron, which...
