Case Comment – Gomboc Decision, 2010 SCC 55
Here is a link to my website for a case comment on the Gomboc that will be published in an upcoming issue of RegQuest. Enjoy the reading.
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Canada’s own version of SEC to be vetted by Supreme Court
Ottawa to seek top court ruling on single securities regulator Unlike the US, Canada doesn’t have a national securities regulator. Canadian constitution is somewhat equivocal in its division of powers between provinces and Ottawa. It…
Charkaoui: the name every Canadian law student knows
Six years in legal labyrinth Charkaoui, however, is the legal star of the five. He’s won two Supreme Court challenges and, as he gradually demolished Ottawa’s case against him, managed to make the government look…
Litigious
Ottawa to launch Supreme Court appeal of Khadr ruling The federal government will go to the Supreme Court of Canada to appeal a court order to bring Omar Khadr home from a U.S. military prison,…
Hypnosis evidence and murder
Man admits committing 1992 murder AÂ former Canada Post supervisor admitted today to the 1992 killing of his girlfriend, two years after the Supreme Court of Canada threw out his conviction in a landmark decision because…
A basic right
Allan Rouben explains what trial within reasonable time is and a June 2009 SCC decision in R. v. Godin.
Political ad bans on transit are unconstitutional
Top court strikes down bus ad ban Here is the text of the ruling. (post sponsored by advicescene.com)
SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out
The Supreme Court of Canada today released its decision in R. v. Patrick, 2009 SCC 17, which concerns privacy interests in garbage and other abandoned items. The Court ruled that a police search of garbage abandoned…