Case Summary: R v Weldekidan
The case of R v Weldekidan deals with a number of important issues related to criminal law, for example the admissibility of victim statements procured during a vulnerable state. The trial judge refused to allow the evidence because she believed that the reliability of the statements was suspect, mainly due to the fact that the statements had been procured in hospital, while the victims were highly medicated.
Causation and Group Assault
On November 15, 2019 the Supreme Court of Canada (hereafter “SCC”) dismissed the appeals of Assmar Ryiad Shlah (hereafter “S”) and Franz Cabrera (hereafter “C”) based “substantially” on the majority per Fraser C.J.A. in the Court of Appeal of Alberta. (2019 SCC 56 at para 1.) This is a case about a violent assault, holding off help in the face of “please”, continuing with the violent assault.
The Potentiality for Infringing on s 12 Charter Rights by Imposing Mandatory Minimum Sentences
In November of 2019, the case of R. v. R.L.K. was decided. The accused was found guilty and was given a summary conviction under s 151 (b) of the Criminal Code. He was found guilty of sexual assault against a minor, a girl who happened to be his neighbour and close friend’s daughter. Before the offender was even convicted, however, he submitted that the mandatory minimum sentence for this summary conviction violated his s 12 Charter rights against cruel and unusual… punishmen
R v Jarvis: What’s a guy got to do to get a voyeurism conviction around here?
I am speaking, in this instance, of R v Jarvis, a Supreme Court case from earlier this year that reads not unlike a script for a weaker episode of Law & Order. The accused was an English teacher at a high school, who had been using a camera concealed inside a pen to make secret recordings of female students while they were engaged in daily activities in common areas of the school.
