Right to Counsel - Liam Pollock On July 1, 2018, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [“the RCMP”] approached a car, which he stated was parked in the middle...
The Complex Balance of Sentencing Children- Cassandra J. Bueckert R v F (JM) [“JMF”] was recently decided by the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench (“the MBQB”). The offender in this case, JMF, has already...
Mistakes in the evolving rules of delay - D. Grohl The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (“the Charter”) establishes in section 11(b) that any person who is charged with an offence...
Self-induced intoxication and automatism - blawger In R v Stone (“Stone”), automatism is defined as “a state of impaired consciousness, rather than unconsciousness, in which an individual...
The Future of Automatism - Justin Vermette Before giving an analysis of R v Sullivan (“Sullivan”), it is important to give a brief overview of some of the critical elements...
Critiquing Predictive Policing - Mikal Sokolowski Computer algorithms are extremely pervasive in everyday life. People rely on and use computer algorithms to make their lives more...
A Canadian Tragedy - Liam Pollock One of Canada’s tragedies that persists to this day is that of murdered and missing Indigenous women. In 2019, according to Statistics...
Detention in a Pandemic - Sarah Sharp In this essay, I will be discussing how COVID-19 has affected jails and prisons in Canada, especially in relation to bail and sentencing....
Drinking and Driving: A Tale as Old as Time - Cassandra J. Bueckert The case of R v Farley (“Farley”) was recently decided by the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench (“the MBQB”) on an appeal from a Provincial...
“Societal Notions” and the Babos Test – Aiyana McKenzie In the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench’s (“the MBQB”) case R v MJZ (“MJZ”), the accused was charged with multiple offences arising from...
The Ordinary Sober Person in Provocation - Aiyana McKenzie Utilizing provocation as a defence has a few caveats. Under section 232(1) of the Criminal Code (“the Code”), “[c]ulpable homicide that...
Necessity and Aiding a Murder Under Duress – Ty Schmidt The common law defences of necessity and duress have been well established at this point in time. Necessity has been an option in common...
Rebuttable Presumption of Vehicle Care and Control Justified - Tony Dempsey The Criminal Code’s (“the Code”) provisions for the offense of care or control of a motor vehicle while impaired provide a prototypical...
Sentencing for the Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls - Tom Swanson It is now widely known that our country has a long and woeful history of discrimination and systemic injustice perpetrated against its...
Caution Required As Curative Proviso Restores Convictions - D. Grohl By amending the Criminal Code (“the Code”) to add section 686(1)(b)(iv), Parliament provided the appeal courts the ability to remedy...
