Supreme Court Affirms Protection for Private Records: R v Quesnelle
This summer in R v Quesnelle, 2014 SCC 46, the Supreme Court of Canada held that police occurrence reports that relate to complainants or witnesses in sexual offence cases, and...
Monthly Archive: October 2014
R v Conception: The Last Word Between Courts and Hospitals for Unfit Accused
Part XX.1 of Canada’s Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46 [the Code], fundamentally altered the way a criminally accused person with a mental illness engages with the criminal justice system. This comprehensive new structure...
Assessing Mens Rea in Cases of Child Abandonment: R v ADH
In R v ADH, [2013] 2 SCR 269, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) articulated its position on the requisite fault element for the offence of child abandonment. While the...
Confidentiality and the Ontario Sex Offender Registry: CSCS v IPC
In Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services) v Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2014 SCC 31 [CSCS v IPC], the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) was asked to interpret the...
