Articles 2021

Criminal Lawyers Association President Anthony Moustacalis offers his thoughts on the future of criminal law. In this first instalment of a two part series Anthony weighs in on the pros and cons of our legal aid system.

Crystal Tomusiak offers a pithy analysis of three recent appellate decisions.

The Ontario Superior Court recently excluded a photograph that was central to the Crown's case. In this article Brock Jones discusses that decision and its potential scope.

Struggling to find time to read recent Supreme Court of Canada judgments? Vincenzo Rondinelli has condensed the latest SCC judgments to bite-sized consumption – 6 words to be exact – to keep you up to date. Here’s the latest instalment for the month of October, 2014.

Crystal Tomusiak offers a pithy analysis of three recent appellate decisions.

It has been 36 years since the Ontario Court of Appeal released R. v. Scheel on the admissibility of summaries and charts in the place of original evidence. Bob Hubbard and Michael Fawcett offer a well-researched reminder that the Scheel principle is alive and well and a valuable tool for reducing the complexity of today's trials.

Oscar Pistorius' heavily publicized trial featured dramatic exchanges between prosecutor and defendant. In this well-sourced article, renowned defence counsel Frank Addario asks, "Did Oscar get a fair trial?"

The law of hearsay underwent a sea change in 2006 with the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R. v. Khelawon. John McInnes argued that case (and other SCC hearsay cases such as R. v Rojas, R. v Baldree, R. v Van). In this article John discusses the Khelawon decision, its impact at the time, and where we stand eight years later.