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

Shakespeare once said that a rose by any other name smells as sweet.

The Supreme Court of Canada held the unpaid concessionaire of a toll highway could not block the licence renewal of a driver who obtained a discharge from bankruptcy listing outstanding tolls.

Recent case finds passenger not arbitrarily detained at roadside when vehicle pulled over by police

In anticipation of an attack on the adequacy of the police investigation as a defence to the first-degree murder charge, the Crown sought to lead some investigative hearsay evidence. Although a voir dire was held, the Court declined to rule on its admissibility in the absence of any indication that the accused would be raising such a defence.

No basis to interfere with finding accused did not invoke his right to speak to counsel under s. 10(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

… a court can take into account erratic driving in conjunction with other pieces of evidence in determining whether there is evidence of some degree of impairment of the Accused's driving.