R v Elliott: An Unhinged Use of Hashtags
In R v Elliott, 2016 ONCJ 35 [Elliott], Gregory Elliott was found not guilty of criminally harassing two women by repeatedly communicating with them via Twitter through various hashtags they...
Tagged: Evidence Law
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...
