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...
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R v Jarvis : Schooling Privacy
NOTE: there is a publication ban in this case, pursuant to section 486.4 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits the dissemination of information that may identify the witnesses. This post is...
R v Marakah: Sending Text Messages & The Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
** Author’s Note: This post is the product of a conversation I had with an expert on the case. I am humbled by and indebted to that person for their...
AB v Canada (Attorney General): A Clash of Open Court Policy and Privacy
An Ontarian has successfully sought a constitutional exemption from sections 241(b) and 14 of the Criminal Code RSC, 1985, c C-46, allowing him to access physician assisted-suicide (“PAS”). The applicant,...
