R. v. Oates (2012) | 2012 CarswellOnt 9022 | Ontario Court of Justice

Ontario court rules search of car trunk under Liquor Licence Act unlawful

Indefinite licence suspension automatically following dangerous driving conviction giving rise to miscarriage of justice

Recent Ontario cases find harsh remand conditions result in extraordinary credit for pre-sentence custody

The failure to consider a relevant aggravating factor, such as the interprovincial impact of heroin trafficking in this instance, would justify appellate intervention with the sentence imposed.

R. v. McDonald | 2015 CarswellBC 3421 | British Columbia Supreme Court

Recent Ontario case which confirms that Indigenous people are not exempt from provincial laws of general application.

R. v. Ikede | 2015 CarswellNS 879 | Nova Scotia Supreme Court

[A friend] and [the defendant] and a few of their friends were often to be found in some of Toronto's most posh neighbourhoods.

Despite s. 39 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act¸ the Provincial Court of British Columbia imposed a custodial sentence of 16 months on a young offender who harassed women with threats of doxing, or publishing their identifiable personal information on the Internet.

Between conviction and sentencing of the accused, the release of a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision amounted to a fundamental restatement of the law that created a rebuttable presumption where no defence had previously existed – although new arguments on appeal were generally prohibited, the appellate court overturned the accused’s conviction and ordered a new trial.

R. v. InfoSpec Systems Inc. | 2013 CarswellBC 2145 | British Columbia Court of Appeal