Robson Crim Legal Blog

In the Ontario Court of Appeal’s 2017 decision in R v Abbey, the court articulated the test for the admissibility of expert opinion evidence.

Social drug supply is non-commercial drug supplying, or sharing, among friends and acquaintances for little to no profit. Given the increasing research and international recognition of the social supply of drugs, this paper critically assesses how Canadian law has incorporated social supply in drug trafficking.

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R v Marakah is a landmark decision under section 8 of the Charter, as it extended constitutional protection to some electronic communications that are no longer in the control of the sender. In other words, the presence or absence of control is no longer determinative.

This article examines the impact of maternal incarceration on women and children in a case-study format. The author’s former clients provide insight into their experiences while incarcerated in federal prison, their re- entry into society upon their release, and the impact of their incarceration on their children. Their children then provide their perspective on visiting their mothers in prison and how their mother’s incarceration impacted their lives.

Throughout my time in law school, I noticed that the criminal cases covered in my courses very rarely adequately dealt with how racism affected the ways in which the police investigated and arrested Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC). Instead, I observed an expansion of police powers and a frightening trend of justifying Charter breaches that ultimately upheld systemic racism in policing — showing that racialized communities have very little recourse in addressin