

Removal of Judicial Discretion in the use of Conditional Sentences for Drug Offences
Author: Caylene Foley This blog focuses on how, in this author’s opinion, section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...


R v Trochym and the Use of Forensic Hypnosis (Part 2/2) - Samantha Harvey
R v Trochym The case of R v Trochym follows the murder of a young woman in 1992. Police investigators found the body of Donna Hunter,...


Unlimited Surveillance: Protection for the Police and from the Police - M Packulak
Twice in Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) judgments, Justice La Forest referenced the work 1984 by George Orwell when writing about police...


R v Trochym and the Use of Forensic Hypnosis (Part 1/2) - Samantha Harvey
I. Introduction The Society of Psychological Hypnosis defines hypnosis as a “state of consciousness involving focused attention and...


R v McColman 2021 ONCA – Does the Common Law Authorize Police Conduct a Routine Traffic Stop?
R v McColman 2021 ONCA – Does the Common Law Authorize Police Conduct at a Routine Traffic Stop on Private Property? Author Name: K...