by Pawel Milczarek | Apr 20, 2024 | Appeals, Capacity to Consent, External Facts and Credibility, Sexual Assault, Standard of Review - Sentencing
This week’s top three summaries: R v Green, 2024 ABCA 118: #blackout and sex, R v TH, 2024 BCCA 123: CSO and appeal standard, and R v ADM, 2024 ABKB 212: #credibility and extrinsic facts. Our firm focuses on representation in complex criminal trials and criminal...
by Pawel Milczarek | Dec 9, 2023 | Accused's Credibility - Right to Disclosure and Presence at Trial, Capacity to Consent, Charter s.8, Fundamental Concepts, Non-Warrant Excision, Sexual Assault
This week’s top three summaries: R v Zacharias, 2023 SCC 30: s.8 non-warrant #excision, R v Haidary, 2023 ONCA 786: #tailoring evidence, and R v SB, 2023 ONCA 784: s.271 capacity to consent. Our firm focuses on representation in complex criminal trials and...
by Pawel Milczarek | Oct 14, 2023 | Capacity to Consent, Memory Gaps, Possession of Stolen Property, Res Gestae, Sexual Assault
This week’s top three summaries: R v Demong, 2023 SKCA 109: s.271 #blackout & intoxication, R v Westcott, 2023 ABCJ 205: res gestae, and R v Woodhouse, 2023 MBCA 80: #stolen property. R v Demong, 2023 SKCA 109 [September 25, 2023] Sexual Assault: Blackout...
by Pawel Milczarek | Sep 16, 2023 | Capacity to Consent, RPG Evidence in Place, Sexual Assault, SOIRA Exemption, Warrants
This week’s top three summaries: R v Owston, 2023 SKCA 101: s.271 #capacity for consent, R v Hess and Profetto, 2023 ONSC 3065: s.8 staleness and stereotypes, and R v AL, 2023 ABKB 505: SOIRA exemption. R v Owston, 2023 SKCA 101 [August 31, 2023] Sexual...
by Pawel Milczarek | May 29, 2021 | Capacity to Consent, Certificate of Analyst, Evidence, Experts, Fundamental Concepts, Impaired Operation, Judicial Comity, Sexual Assault
This week’s top three summaries: R v Goldson, 2021 ABCA 193: #DUI #Over80 analyst certificates, R v AM, 2021 ONSC 3515: #sexual assault: #reasons and toxicologists and R v Zabihullah, 2021 SKQB 127: #judicial comity relaxed. R v Goldson, 2021 ABCA 193 [May 21,...