“Requisite State of Mind” in Second-Degree Murder - Ashley Fouad
In the Manitoba case of R v Belyk (“Belyk”), the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench (“the MBQB”) had the task of analyzing whether Jordan...
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...
