Content Warning: This article includes depictions of sexual violence that may evoke strong emotions. In the last three decades, the law of sexual assault has evolved drastically, most recently with...
In May 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) affirmed that “the act of dragging the complainant while asleep and drugged is inconsistent with any sort of consent” R v...
In R v Wilcox, 2014 SCC 75, a paragraph-long oral judgment of the Supreme Court affirms the judgment of Quebec’s Court of Appeal, 2014 QCCA 321. In that decision, the majority of the Court of...
Can a person legally consent to sexual assault causing bodily harm? In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision in R v Jobidon, [1991] 2 SCR 714,...
