by Pawel Milczarek | Jan 25, 2025 | 715.1 Video Evidence, Charter 11(b), Memory
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...
by Pawel Milczarek | Apr 6, 2024 | Charter 10(b), Evidence, Possession, Waiver
This week’s top three summaries: R v Giroux, 2024 ABCJ 71: s.10(b), voluntariness, indigineity, R v Smith, 2024 ONSC 1482: #possession & DNA, and R v Pearson, 2024 ABCJ 67: no prelim #waiver by non-appearance. Our firm focuses on representation in complex...
by Pawel Milczarek | Jan 27, 2024 | Evidence, Judicial Notice, Possession, Prior Consistent Statements
This week’s top three summaries: R v R.M., 2023 BCCA 455: judicial #notice, R v S.C., 2023 ONCA 832: prior #consistent stmt, and R v Beauvais, 2024 ONCA 22: #possession alternative inference Our firm focuses on representation in complex criminal trials and...
by Pawel Milczarek | Oct 28, 2023 | Defences, Evidence, NCRMD, Possession, Similar Fact
This week’s top three summaries: R v Jackson, 2023 ONSC 5707: #knowledge & possession, R v Shylga, 2023 ABKB 583: #NCRMD, and R v Saucier, 2023 ONSC 5269: #similar fact for s.271. R v Jackson, 2023 ONSC 5707 [October 11, 2023] Possession: The element of...
by Pawel Milczarek | Sep 23, 2023 | Accused Exculpatory Testimony - Fabrication, Charter s.8, Charter s.9, Evidence, Good Samaritan, Reasonable Suspicion, The W(D) Instruction
This week’s top three summaries: R v Wilson, 2023 SKCA 106: good #Samaritan, R v Sabiston, 2023 SKCA 105: #suspicion + test what?, and R v UK, 2023 ONCA 587: accused #fabrication and joint WD. R v Wilson, 2023 SKCA 106 [September 8, 2023] Charter s.8/9: Arrest...
by Pawel Milczarek | Jul 1, 2023 | Accused - Irrelevant Factors, Credibility, Dangerous Offender, Evidence, Prior Consistent Statements, Sentencing
This week’s top three summaries: R v Thompson, 2023 SKCA 66: #credibility of accused, R v Freedland, 2023 ONCA 386: prior consistent #statements, and R v Sohal, 2023 BCCA 256: DO standard of high #likelihood. This week’s top case deals with the judicial...
