Risky Business: R v George & Reckoning with Age of Consent Laws
In 2011 in Saskatchewan, the complainant C.D. was 14 years old, although according to the evidentiary record he looked older (R v George, 2017 SCC 38 at para 10 [“SCC”])....
Tagged: Criminal justice
Return to Sender: Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in R v Marakah
How private are your private messages? Can the police read the texts you send to others? This post explores R v Marakah, 2017 SCC 59, in which the Supreme Court of...
R v Boutilier: The Dangerous Offender Regime and the Spectre of Indeterminate Sentences
On December 21st, 2017, the Supreme Court released its decision in R v Boutilier, 2017 SCC 64 [Boutilier], which deals with a constitutional challenge to the dangerous offender scheme in...
Catch & Release: Redefining Hearsay Admissibility in R v Bradshaw
In June 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada (“the SCC”) ruled in R v Bradshaw that the test for using corroborative evidence to establish substantive reliability of hearsay evidence is...
