Protecting Privacy at the Expense of Victims’ Rights: R v Bykovets
The internet has forever altered the criminal landscape, making it easier for offenders to collect, share and trade child sexual abuse material (CSAM) across both the regular and dark web. Between 2014 and 2022, there were 15,630 reports from police of online sexual offences against children and 45,816 reports of online CSAM in Canada.
IP Addresses - Do Police Have a Right to Use as Evidence?
The internet has become part of our everyday life in today’s society. Browsing the internet for hours at a time is not an uncommon practice. When someone uses the internet, they leave their fingerprint in the form of an Internet Protocol Address (IP Address). “An IP address is a string of numbers assigned to an internet-connected device. Think of it like an address on a house. Your computer network uses the IP address to communicate with other computers, websites, and all par
When the End Doesn’t Justify the Means: Voluntariness Issues and Unreliable Expert Witness Testimony in R v Doyle 2003
In 1996, while dancing at home with his girlfriend’s infant son, Tyler, in his arms, twenty-three-year-old Bernard Doyle tripped and fell. Tyler fell on construction tools that were scattered around the floor of the apartment, with Mr. Doyle landing on top of him. In spite of immediately receiving medical attention, Tyler’s injuries were too severe; he died in the hospital the next day. Mr. Doyle was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
Scepticism For Gladue In Twenty-First Century Manitoba Media
Many Canadians know — or at least think they know — about the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC)’s 1999 decision in R v Gladue. Recently, for example, when I told a man at my gym that I plan to article in criminal law, he told me to make sure I knew about Gladue because, in his words, “it’s a case that says when an Indigenous person commits a crime, we take the sentence that you would give a white person for the same crime and cut it in half.”
Can I at Least Have My Phone Call?
It can be easy to underestimate the role which the law of evidence plays in the criminal justice system. One may think that evidence is a straightforward and simple matter; the facts are the facts, and the accused is guilty or not, plain and simple.
However, the law of evidence is anything but. Especially when potential wrongful convictions hang in the balance, the stakes could not be higher. R v. Schneider is indicative of how complicated and significant the law of evidenc
