Robson Crim Legal Blog

Maya Angelou said that “there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story locked up inside you.” Medical and psychological research substantiates that telling our own stories can be beneficial to the mental health to those who tell and those who hear them. It is crucial for us to all be able to tell and own our truths. The watershed #METOO movement demonstrates the power of sharing stories, and the importance of hearing them to those who have been victimized and thought

The 2016 Ghomesi trial exposed a startling lack of understanding in Canada about what consent is and means in the legal system as well as exposing rules of evidence that harm rape victims. Seven years later in 2022 a trial for a case with similar facts began against famous musician Jacob Hoggard.This case too involved a powerful man facing allegations of violent attacks on women who were said to have earlier consented to other sexual activities.

Since the inception of the world’s first juvenile court, somewhat ironically, in Ohio, USA all civilized countries have put in place specific mechanisms to address the criminal accountability of youths. These laws are set forth in recognition of the vulnerability and diminished capacity of youth based upon their immature cognitive, psychological, and physical, developmental stage. The world’s nations also came together, in 1997, to sign the United Nations Convention on the R