

Sentencing In the Time of COVID (Part 2/2) - Caylene Foley
Collateral Consequences Collateral consequences include “any consequence arising from the commission of an offence, the conviction for an...


Sentencing In the Time of COVID (Part 1/2) - Caylene Foley
In March of 2020, the world was hit by a global COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has affected every aspect of human life. Freedoms were...


Removal of Judicial Discretion in the use of Conditional Sentences for Drug Offences
Author: Caylene Foley This blog focuses on how, in this author’s opinion, section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...


R v Trochym and the Use of Forensic Hypnosis (Part 2/2) - Samantha Harvey
R v Trochym The case of R v Trochym follows the murder of a young woman in 1992. Police investigators found the body of Donna Hunter,...


Unlimited Surveillance: Protection for the Police and from the Police - M Packulak
Twice in Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) judgments, Justice La Forest referenced the work 1984 by George Orwell when writing about police...






