Guindon v Canada: It’s just a fine
Why We Should Be Suspicious of Timeshares Julie Guindon is the family and estate lawyer at the heart of Guindon v Canada, 2015 SCC 41 [Guindon] in which the Supreme...
Monthly Archive: September 2015
A TheCourt.ca Exclusive Interview: R v Spencer One Year Later
A New Hurdle To Protecting Our Children? A Perspective from the Toronto Police Internet Child Exploitation Unit Last year, TheCourt.ca published two key articles about the Supreme Court of Canada’s...
A Reluctant Justification: R v Michaud Uses Bedford Approach to Justify Section 7 Infringement
In R v Michaud, 2015 ONCA 585 [Michaud], the Court of Appeal for Ontario (“ONCA”) reluctantly followed the precedent set in Canada v Bedford, [2013] 3 SCR 1101 [Bedford]. Justice...
Revisiting Expert Evidence: The New Test for Bias in Burgess
In White Burgess Langille Inman v Abbott and Haliburton Co, 2015 SCC 23 [Burgess], the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) established a test for assessing the impartiality of expert witnesses. The...
