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- The Defence Toolkit – February 8, 2025 – Severing Charges
This week’s top three summaries: R v Boucher, 2025 ABKB 56: charges #severance, R v Leonard, 2025 ONCA 57: insufficient #reasons and R v Buonomo, 2025 ONCA 62: BPA #fentanyl R v Boucher, 2025 ABKB 56 [January 30, 2025] Severance of Charges: Murder and Other Offences [Lisa A. Silver J.] AUTHOR’S NOT … Read more »
- The Defence Toolkit – February 1, 2025: Disclosure of Videos of Complainant Violence
This week’s top three summaries: R v Haley, 2025 ONSC 265: s.7 #disclosure, R v AV, 2025 ONSC 57: #similar fact, and R v Lemay-Storms, 2025 ABKB 39: #principled exception R v Haley, 2025 ONSC 265 [January 16, 2025] Charter s.7: Past Complainant Violence Video and Collateral Fact [J.R. Presser J.] A … Read more »
- The Defence Toolkit – January 25, 2025: Video Statements
This week’s top three summaries: R v Reves, 2025 ABCA 5: s.715.1 #statements, R v SLB, 2024 ABCA 412: #historical memory, and R v RB-C, 2024 ONCA 930: 11(b) post-conviction R v Reves, 2025 ABCA 5 [January 9, 2025] Admissibility of s.715.1 Statements: Context of Prior Disclosures [Bernette Ho, Jane F … Read more »
- The Defence Toolkit – December 21, 2024: Non-stranger Identification
This week’s top three summaries: R v DGA, 2024 SKCA 114: prior ID non-stranger, R v Watson, 2024 ONSC 6781: #duress, and R v Osaigbovo, 2024 ONSC 6914: no reasons = #mistrial R v DGA, 2024 SKCA 114 [December 10, 2024] Identification Evidence: Non-Strangers and Prior Identifications [Reasons by Tholl … Read more »
- The Defence Toolkit – December 14, 2024: The Unsavoury Witness and Hearsay
This week’s top three summaries: R v Boucher, 2024 ABKB 707: #principled exception, R v Boucher, 2024 ABKB 722: s.8: res gestae & #silent adoption, and R v Vandal-Lauman, 2024 ABKB 667: conditional #sentence R v Boucher, 2024 ABKB 707 [November 5, 2024] The Principled Exception to Hearsay: the Unsav … Read more »