2016 and the Supreme Court: A Year in Numbers
Last year, I wrote a two-part “Year in Review” special, analyzing some of the interesting aspects of the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2015 calendar year. Part I was a statistical...
Author: John Mastrangelo
The Most Cited Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada
This brief comment will have the objective of answering a simple but very interesting two-part question: which Supreme Court of Canada decisions have received the most judicial treatment by subsequent...
R v Oland: Why Dennis Oland got a New Trial
The gruesome killing of Richard Oland—a wealthy businessman and a member of the family that owns the iconic Moosehead Brewery—sent shockwaves throughout the province of New Brunswick, not least given...
R v Rutigliano: Solicitor-Client Privilege and Abuse of Process
How are courts to deal with instances where solicitor-client privilege and the right to full answer and defence – both principles of fundamental justice, protected under section 7 of the...
