Sensational Reporting of a Criminal Trial Process
I was listening to the radio in Toronto today and one story caught my ear. It went like this: “Two suspects charged with shooting an 18 year old in plain view of a security camera…
Criminal Law
40% of Ontario Prosecutions Fail Before Trial
According to the National Post, the criminal justice system in Ontario is an absolute mess. Ontario has the highest rate of failed prosecutions in Canada. In this province, approximately 40% of criminal cases are withdrawn,…
Biking While Under the Influence
We’ve previously mentioned DUIs while driving a wheelchair and a lawn mower. One of our readers asked whether he could be charged when riding a bicycle. Well, maybe not in Canada, but in Ohio… h/t…
Court: No Expectation of Privacy in our Online Identity
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that Canadians have no expectation of privacy in their online identity. In a St. Thomas-area child porn case, the police asked Bell Canada for a customer’s name…
The Solution is Insite, Part II
In October 2008 I wrote a bit about my personal opinions and experiences with Insite, a unique, government-funded legal safe injection site that has been on the front lines of Vancouver’s drug epidemic. Insite was…
The Harm Reduction Controversy & Injection Sites
Third post in a series on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference. The harm reduction panel spoke about strategies for reducing communicable diseases. Most of the discussion focused on the controversy over injection sites….
Potential Career Alternative
At this time of year, as the legal community battens down the hatches against recession, and law students gaze over the desolate, frigid waste of their summer employment prospects, some might be tempted to give…
Omar Khadr’s Guanatanamo Trial Suspended!
It’s over! For now, anyway. Staying true to his promise, Barack Obama has made it one of his first official acts as President to request a suspension of the military tribunal process in Guantanamo. Omar…
Law Students Demand Repatriation of Omar Khadr
Hundreds of law students from across the country have added their names to the growing list of people calling for the repatriation and fair trial of Omar Khadr, as well as the closure of the…
Strange B&E May Signal Growing Practice Area
Police are chasing a man in Cairns, Australia for breaking and entering into a store and stealing their toys. He’s suspected of several break-ins at a s similar store in the city. But these stores…
YouTube Video Entered as Evidence in B.C. Trial
The B.C. Supreme Court entered a YouTube video of a Victoria man yesterday, the first time the Crown has done so in that province. “AR-15 Makes Swiss Cheese Out of a Couch,” now removed from…
Obama: End of Guantanamo and Good News for Omar Khadr
I have previously expressed my shame at the Canadian Government’s failure to follow the example of every other Western nation in demanding the repatriation of our citizen at Guantanamo Bay. The advocacy in favour of…