by Pawel Milczarek | Feb 12, 2022 | Charter s.12, Credibility, Mandatory Minimum, Sexual Assault, Sexual History s 276, Stereotypes of Human Behaviour
This week’s top three summaries: R v BG, 2022 ONCA 92: #stereotypes & credibility, R v Santillana, 2022 ABQB 108: #Crown Seaboyer lost, and R v Penner, 2022 BCSC 2900: #manslaughter man min struck. R v BG, 2022 ONCA 92 [February 2, 2022] Crown Cultural...
by Pawel Milczarek | Feb 5, 2022 | Credibility, De Minimis, Inappropriate Notes, Judge Bound by Crown Theory, Police Officers, Reasonable Grounds
This week’s top three summaries: R v RH, 2022 ONCA 69: Crown #theory binds judge, R v Ward, 2022 ABPC 4: #police notes & s.8, and R v Haynes, 2022 ONCJ 30: de minimis #defence. R v RH, 2022 ONCA 69 [January 27, 2022] Crown Theory of the Case Binds Trial...
by Pawel Milczarek | Jan 29, 2022 | CSO for Serious Offence, Joint Submissions, Memory Gaps, Sense of Touch, Sentencing, Sexual Assault, Start-Points
This week’s top three summaries: R v Kruk, 2022 BCCA 18: #assumption of #sense, R v Sharifi-Jamaili, 2022 ABQB 52: #down from #joint sub, and R v [M.S.], 2022 NSSC 12: #memory gaps in sex assault. R v Kruk, 2022 BCCA 18 [January 20, 2022] Sexual Assault:...
by Pawel Milczarek | Jan 22, 2022 | Answering Jury Questions, Joint Submissions, Sentencing, Voyeurism
This week’s top three summaries: R v Naslund, 2022 ABCA 6: #overturn joint sub down, R v Chacon-Perez, 2022 ONCA 3: #jury questions, and R v Downes, 2022 BCCA 8: #voyeurism temporal use of location. R v Naslund, 2022 ABCA 6 [January 12, 2022] Overturning a Joint...
by Pawel Milczarek | Jan 15, 2022 | Balanced Charge, Eye-Witness Identification, Hearsay, Hearsay, Juries, The Principled Exception, The W(D) Instruction
This week’s top three summaries: R v Panovski, 2021 ONCA 905: W(D) on all #exonerating ev, R v Furey, 2021 NLCA 59: #principled exc’pn necessity, and R v Davis, 2021 ONSC 8163: poss’n #knowledge. R v Panovski, 2021 ONCA 905 [December 17, 2021] W(D)...
