9 03, 2024

The Defence Toolkit – March 8, 2024: Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

By |2024-03-09T07:18:58-07:00March 9th, 2024|Charter s.8, Overseizure, Pre-Trial Custody, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Warrants|1 Comment

This week's top three summaries: R v Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6: #privacy & IPs, R v Gill, 2024 BCCA 63: #overseizure, and R [...]

2 03, 2024

The Defence Toolkit – March 2, 2024 “Assumptions about Dealers”

By |2024-03-02T10:19:47-07:00March 2nd, 2024|Charter 11(b), Charter s.8, Credibility, Defence Reasonably Available, Manner of Execution, Motive to Fabricate, Warrants|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v Harper, 2024 ONSC 925: s.8 #dynamic entry, R v Walters, 2024 ONSC 978: family law #collusion, [...]

10 02, 2024

The Defence Toolkit – February 10, 2024: “Please knock before entry”

By |2024-02-10T08:26:16-07:00February 10th, 2024|Charter s.8, Dangerous Offender, No Knock, Sentencing, Sexual Assault, Sexual Purpose|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v Russell, 2024 ONSC 529: s.8 no #knock, RTJ, R v TA, 2024 ONSC 528: #sexual purpose, [...]

9 12, 2023

The Defence Toolkit – December 9, 2023: The state cannot benefit from illegal police acts

By |2023-12-09T10:30:10-07:00December 9th, 2023|Accused's Credibility - Right to Disclosure and Presence at Trial, Capacity to Consent, Charter s.8, Fundamental Concepts, Non-Warrant Excision, Sexual Assault|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v  Zacharias, 2023 SCC 30: s.8 non-warrant #excision, R v Haidary, 2023 ONCA 786: #tailoring evidence, and [...]

2 12, 2023

The Defence Toolkit – December 2, 2023: “Implied Licence to Knock”

By |2023-12-02T10:43:31-07:00December 2nd, 2023|Appeals, Charter s.8, Disclosure, Fresh Evidence, Implied Licence to Knock, Third Party Suspect|2 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v  Singer, 2023 SKCA 123: s.8 car in #driveway, R v Lowry, 2023 BCCA 5: 3rd party [...]

21 10, 2023

The Defence Toolkit – October 21, 2023

By |2023-10-21T10:11:58-06:00October 21st, 2023|Charter 10(b), Charter s.7, Charter s.8, Charter s.9, Reasonable Grounds, Search Incident to Arrest, Use of Civil Judgment, Without Delay|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v  Gallant, 2023 BCSC 1786: s.9/8 grounds - drug #pipe, R v Brazeau, 2023 ABCJ 211: s.7 [...]

23 09, 2023

The Defence Toolkit – Sept 23, 2023 “The Good Samaritan”

By |2023-09-23T08:50:38-06:00September 23rd, 2023|Accused Exculpatory Testimony - Fabrication, Charter s.8, Charter s.9, Evidence, Good Samaritan, Reasonable Suspicion, The W(D) Instruction|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v  Wilson, 2023 SKCA 106: good #Samaritan, R v Sabiston, 2023 SKCA 105: #suspicion + test what?, [...]

16 09, 2023

The Defence Toolkit – September 16, 2023 “No Memory of What Happened”

By |2023-09-16T07:09:29-06:00September 16th, 2023|Capacity to Consent, RPG Evidence in Place, Sexual Assault, SOIRA Exemption, Warrants|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v  Owston, 2023 SKCA 101: s.271 #capacity for consent, R v Hess and Profetto, 2023 ONSC 3065: [...]

29 07, 2023

The Defence Toolkit – July 29, 2023: “The Right to be a Nuissance”

By |2023-07-29T08:07:22-06:00July 29th, 2023|Charter s.8, Credibility, Inadvertent Tainting, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Self-Defence|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v Walker, 2023 ABKB 341: #self-defence v police, R v Louie, 2023 ABKB 352: s.8 Apt CCTV, [...]

1 04, 2023

The Defence Toolkit – April 1, 2023

By |2023-04-01T09:56:34-06:00April 1st, 2023|After the Fact Conduct, Charter 10(b), Charter s.8, During Search Warrant Execution, Evidence, Manner of Execution, Similar Fact, Warrants|0 Comments

This week's top three summaries: R v O'Brien, 2023 ONCA 197: s.8/24(2) search for #passwords, R v Brooks, 2023 BCCA 121: not #similar, and R v [...]

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