Moral Character: Making Sense of the Experiences of Bar Applicants with Criminal Records
In this leading edge paper, Moral Character: Making Sense of the Experiences of Bar Applicants with Criminal Records Professor Hadar Aviram looks at the requirements of character in bar admissions and the impact of criminal records in this context.
Victim Impact Statements at Canadian Corporate Sentencing
Prof. Sheley unpacks deferred prosecution agreements in North America in her compelling piece: Victim Impact Statements at Canadian Corporate Sentencing.
Harm in the Digital Age: Proactive Child Luring Investigations
Harm in the Digital Age: Critiquing the Construction of Victims, Harm, and Evidence in Proactive Child Luring Investigations by Lauren Menzie and Taryn Hepburn (available also at https://tinyurl.com/y2tt28rn) is an impressive work that considers police tactics and judicial responses in child luring investigations.
Concerns about Prosecuting Art Portraying Child Abuse
Author, Yvan Godbout, was charged on April 2019 with making child pornography, an offence under s.163.1(2) of the Criminal Code of Canada (CCC). 1 The charges arose from Godbout’s rendition of Hansel and Gretel, a single story out of a collection of dark reinterpretations of old fairy tales. The story contains a fake depiction wherein a father sexually assaults his daughter, no more, no less.
Fleming v Ontario
Fleming was on his way to participate in a counter-protest organized as a response to protestors’ occupation of some Crown land. There had been violent clashes between both groups in the past, prompting police to develop an operational plan that involved separating the groups. The counter-protesters were told that they were not allowed onto the occupied Crown land. As Fleming stepped onto the land, some protesters started moving toward him and an officer arrested him.
