Sniffing Out the Larger Implications of the Dog Sniff Cases
Last Friday the Supreme Court of Canada released judgments in a pair of cases involving the use of drug sniffing dogs by police: R. v. Kang-Brown, 2008 SCC 18 and...
Last Friday the Supreme Court of Canada released judgments in a pair of cases involving the use of drug sniffing dogs by police: R. v. Kang-Brown, 2008 SCC 18 and...
Former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer arrived at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1980 following a distinguished career as a criminal lawyer, law professor and chairman of the Law Reform...
Forty years ago the Supreme Court of Canada refused to intervene in the case of Steven Truscott (see Reference re R. v. Truscott, [1967] 2 C.C.C. 285). The case came...
Introduction It makes sense to begin any discussion on the applicability of the Charter with a consideration of s. 32(1), which reads: “This Charter applies (a) to the Parliament and...