Refitting the Master’s Tools: Considering Restorative Justice in the Wake of the 2025 Hockey Sex Assault Case
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” — Audre Lorde Trial and Verdict On July 24, 2025, Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia acquitted five former members of Team Canada’s 2018 World Junior hockey squad—Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dubé, Carter Hart, and Cal Foote—of sexual assault charges stemming from a June 2018 hotel-room incident in London, Ontario. McLeod also faced and was acquitted on an additional count of being party to
Forging Innovative Criminal Justice Solutions
An Arctic Example Social Enterprise Fusing Together Social Justice and Crime Prevention Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich By fusing together...
A Caution-ary Tale: R v Tessier and the Impact of the Absence of Police Cautions on the Admissibility of Statements Under the Confessions Rule
Authors: Kaitlyn Mitchell and Riley O’Hara Introduction The admissibility of statements made to police has been widely debated in the...
Leave the Bad Character Comments at the Door of the Courtroom
Authors: Kelsey Scott and Sarah Shuttleworth During a criminal trial in Canada, the Crown is strictly prohibited from calling general...
Texts on Trial: The Reliability of Digital Evidence in R v Aslami
Author: Carly Zelisney With over 23 billion text messages sent globally each day—270,000 messages per second—and 2.52 billion people...
