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Enhanced Credit for Pre-Sentence Custody: An Update

Enhanced Credit for Pre-Sentence Custody: An Update

  • October 12, 2016
  • Grace Hession David

Since the Supreme Court's ruling in R v Summers, it is uncontroversial that offenders are generally entitled to 1.5 days credit for every day of pre-trial custody. What do offenders have to do to lose that enhanced credit? Assistant Crown Attorney Grace Hession David reviews the latest case law.

Criminal Justice
October 2016 Appeal Court Review

October 2016 Appeal Court Review

  • October 12, 2016
  • Crystal Tomusiak

This month from the Ontario Court of Appeal: The Court's first real treatment of the Jordan 11(b) framework, allowing fresh evidence to overturn a murder verdict, and a trial counsel whose incompetence tainted the entire proceeding, requiring a new trial.

Criminal Justice
<em>R v Jordan</em>: Meet the New Test…Same as the Old Test?  (With apologies to Pete Townshend)

R v Jordan: Meet the New Test…Same as the Old Test? (With apologies to Pete Townshend)

  • October 12, 2016
  • Jody Berkes

In R v Jordan, the majority of the Supreme Court provided a completely new test to protect the right to trial within a reasonable time under section 11(b) of the Charter. But is the new test really as different from the old test as the Court says? Chair of the OBA Criminal Justice Section Jody Berkes investigates without delay.

Criminal Justice
Group Privacy

Group Privacy

  • September 21, 2016
  • Alan D. Gold

Technology is changing the way we communicate - and with how many we communicate at any given time. Group emails and a myriad of other communication methods raise the question: can groups of people enjoy the traditional protections bestowed on "private" communication?

Criminal Justice
September 2016 Appeal Court Review

September 2016 Appeal Court Review

  • September 20, 2016
  • Crystal Tomusiak

Highlights from the Ontario Court of Appeal: Crown misconduct, searching "abandoned" cars, and hearsay evidence both spoken and heard by the dead.

Criminal Justice
Text Messages and Privacy: Waiting for the Last Word from the Supreme Court

Text Messages and Privacy: Waiting for the Last Word from the Supreme Court

  • September 19, 2016
  • Alan D. Gold

In R. v. Marakah, 2016 ONCA 542, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled 2:1 that an accused has no reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of his own sent text messages found in another person's phone. H.S. Laforme J.A. dissented with power and eloquence. We await further direction from the Supreme Court.

Criminal Justice
June Appellate Court Review

June Appellate Court Review

  • June 24, 2016
  • Crystal Tomusiak

Crystal Tomusiak summarizes the latest criminal appellate court decisions.

Criminal Justice
June 6-Word SCC Review

June 6-Word SCC Review

  • June 24, 2016
  • Vincenzo Rondinelli

For this months SCC offerings in digestible fashion....

Criminal Justice
Group Privacy

Group Privacy

  • June 24, 2016
  • Alan D. Gold

Technology is changing the way we communicate - and with how many we communicate at any given time. Group emails and a myriad of other communication methods raise the question: can groups of people enjoy the traditional protections bestowed on "private" communication?

Criminal Justice