Protecting the Right to Interpreter Assistance
Yesterday, the SCC denied leave to appeal in R v Rybak. On 1 November 2003, Janusz Rybak was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder following a seven-week trial. At...
Author: Regina Lee
Recognizing No-Fault Civil Liability in Respect of Neighbourhood Disturbances in Québec Civil Law
Dust they are, and unto dust they shall return, yet human beings have difficulty resigning themselves to living in dust. Sometimes, weary of brooms and buckets of water, they are...
Holding the Police Board Vicariously Liable for the Conduct of Its Officers
“It is tragic but true that people working with the vulnerable sometimes abuse their positions and commit wrongs against the very people they are engaged to help.” In Evans v...
R v Ellard: Seeking Justice
On 14 November 1997, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk was swarmed and beaten by a group of teenagers in Victoria, B.C., at the south end of the Craigflower Bridge. After the beating,...
