Robson Crim Legal Blog

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.The charges resulted from the complaint of a single University Professor in January

On November 15, 2019 in the case R. v K.J.M., the Supreme Court of Canada laid out the applicability of R. v Jordan, a case determining ceilings for the reasonable length of time before a trial, to cases involving youth. The Supreme Court determined in this case that the ceilings identified in Jordan did apply to youth cases and that a lowering of the maximum range of eighteen to thirty months for cases concerning youth was unnecessary.

Although unrelated to the original intention in investigating the case, R v Dowd brings up some interesting concepts in relation to the jurisprudence surrounding evidence in trials. One of these includes the concept of trial by ambush. For some context, the case of R v Dowd involves a former police officer accused of sexual assault (indecent touching) on a nine-year old girl.

The Law of War refers to the component of international law that regulates the conditions for war (jus ad bellum) and the conduct of warring parties (jus in bello). Over the past two decades, the conduct of warfare has changed drastically, and has become more asymmetric in nature.

In this Blawg, I will attempt to do a little philosophizing by comparing Plato’s conception of justice to a Supreme Court ruling in R v Myers. The object of this exposition is to compare Plato’s conception of justice, that is, harmony, to a case from the Supreme Court that tries to bring agreement between s.5252 of the Criminal Code of Canada and s.11(e)[3] of the Charter.