by Pawel Milczarek | Mar 8, 2025 | Provocation, Self-Defence, Voluntariness
This week’s top three summaries: R v Ordonio, 2025 ONCA 135: s.8 #voluntariness & time, R v Deverze, self #defence and weapon and R v Hallman, 2025 ONCA 123: #provocation R v Ordonio, 2025 ONCA 135 [February 25, 2025] Voluntariness: Length of the...
by Pawel Milczarek | May 14, 2022 | Air of Reality, Defences, Eye-Witness Identification, Non-Insane Automatism, Provocation
This week’s top three summaries: R v Barrett, 2022 ONCA 355: #provocation, R v Brown, 2022 SCC 18: #automatism, and R v Grant, 2022 ONCA 337: #exculpatory ID evidence. This week’s top case deals with provocation and issue that is a partial defence to...
by Pawel Milczarek | Apr 24, 2021 | Absence of Motive to Fabricate, Air of Reality, Alternative Suspect, Credibility, Evidence, Experts, Provocation
This week’s top three summaries: R v Gauthier, 2021 ONCA 216: alternate #suspect & #experts, R v Alas, 2021 ONCA 224: #provocation, and R v Dindyal, 2021 ONCA 234: #motive to fabricate. R v Gauthier, 2021 ONCA 216 [April 9, 2021] Alternative Suspect &...
by Pawel Milczarek | Feb 27, 2021 | Charter s.9, Provocation, Ruse Traffic Stops, Young Witness Testimony
This week’s top three summaries: R v Buchanan, 2021 BCSC 51: #provocation & drug #addiction, R v Huntley, 2021 BCSC 149: s.9 #pretext jaywalking, and R v Kush, 2021 BCSC 175: W(R)/B(G) and #teenagers R v Buchanan, 2021 BCSC 51 [January 12, 2021]...
