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Practice Tips: The Courtesy Call

  • October 17, 2019
  • Harpreet Saini

Criminal defence and immigration lawyer Harpreet Saini provides practice tips for ethical lawyering: how to professionally and courteously handle a call when a potential client already has counsel.

Criminal Justice, Student Forum

Is S. 320.31(9) a Soules Survivor?

  • September 16, 2019
  • Alan D. Gold

Alan Gold discusses the impact of changes to drinking, drugs and driving offence legislation - specifically, how new statement admissibility legislation stacks up next to existing jurisprudence.

Criminal Justice, Student Forum

Pleading to Provincial Offences Under s. 606(4)

  • January 13, 2019
  • Benjamin Janzen, Assistant Crown Attorney

Assistant Crown Attorney Benjamin Janzen provides helpful tips for counsel assisting individuals with guilty pleas to provincial offences.

Criminal Justice, Student Forum

The Dark Web

  • January 13, 2019
  • Erin Pancer, senior prosecutor with the Ministry of the Attorney General, Guns and Gangs Unit

Crown Attorney Erin Pancer provides an overview of the Dark Web and the role of cryptocurrency in facilitating the purchase of drugs and firearms.

Criminal Justice, Student Forum

Context is Everything: Voluntariness in 2018

  • January 13, 2019
  • Lisa Jørgensen, Cooper Jørgensen

Lisa Jørgensen provides a helpful refresher on the law of voluntariness, with a focus on recent Court of Appeal and Superior Court jurisprudence.

Criminal Justice, Student Forum

Case Commentary: R. v. Reeves, 2018 SCC 56

  • January 13, 2019
  • Lynda Morgan

Lynda Morgan summarizes the Supreme Court of Canada's recent significant judgment in R. v. Reeves, respecting the effect of the consent of a co-owner or third party to the police seizure of a computer.

Criminal Justice, Student Forum