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)...
by Pawel Milczarek | Jan 8, 2022 | Causation, Evidence, Possession, The W(D) Instruction
This week’s top three summaries: R v Kuntz, 2021 ONCA 903: #causation and diagnosis, R v Van Deventer, 2021 SKCA 163: bare #denial W(D), and R v Jeyakanthan, 2021 ONSC 8250: hot potato #possession R v Kuntz, 2021 ONCA 903 [December 17, 2021] Criminal Negligence...
by Pawel Milczarek | Dec 18, 2021 | Causation, Charter s.8, Excision, Sentencing, Setting Aside Guilty Plea, Warrants
This week’s top three summaries: R c Rizzuto, 2021 QCCA 1789: s.8 warrants #excision, Mohabir c R, 2021 QCCA 1806: 606(1.1) might be #jail, and R v Manukian, 2021 ONSC 7765: bodily harm #causation. R c Rizzuto, 2021 QCCA 1789 [November 30, 2021] Charter s.8...
